A Virginia mother is demanding answers after she arrived at her autistic son’s tennis lesson to find him handcuffed on the ground.
The 12-year-old later had to be treated for a concussion after officers detained him in the program meant to help bridge the relationship between Black youth and police, according to his mother.
“I wanted him to have a positive view of police officers and not all the negativity he sees on TV,” Sheila Jackson told CBS 6.
Jackson’s respect for her uncle, who was a police officer, motivated her to sign up her son, Curtis Hayes, for an after-school tennis program run by the Richmond Police Athletic League at Virginia Commonwealth University. She wanted Curtis to be comfortable around police officers. However, Jackson was shocked when she showed up at the courts on Nov. 3 and found him on the ground in handcuffs and restrained by a group of officers, she said.
“There was an officer holding his head. There was an officer on his…
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