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Mother: Police Pepper Sprayed My Son
posted (February 22, 2017)

Tonight, Southside police are investigating a complaint of child abuse.  This is after a cop pepper sprayed an 11 year old boy.  Yesterday, we received a report that police were breaking up a fight within a group of boys. Anacelia Castillo of West Street told me that they pepper sprayed her son - even though he was not in the fight:

Anacelia Castillo - Mother
"Like a little bit after yesterday evening, my baby came home on his bicycle, but when my baby reached home, like I notice my kids because in notice kids, I always notice my kids when they come home so when the little boy reached home, he said “mommyâ€￾ …he didn’t say Mommy, he said like Hmmm they chanced me, and I asked him who chanced him and he said it’s the police and I said “What!"

"The least he could have done was spank my son and send home my son, he didn’t need to spray pepper spray in my baby’s eye, I need for Chester Williams to do something about him."

Courtney Weatherburne
"But what you understand happened? Why would police pepper spray your 11 year old son?"

Anacelia Castillo
"Because he said he stood up to watch a fight but he said he wasn’t in the fight and he said he stood up to watch the fight now the police looked at him and told him “wait there, wait there and he just started to spray the kids in their face with pepper spray."

Courtney Weatherburne
"Where did the fight happen? Was it at school? And what school?"

Anacelia Castillo
"No, he is going to Wesley School, Wesley Lower, Wesley at the back but he went to the Sand field to play football because every evening they go to play football but he ended up leaving his sister and went around Queen Square coming by St. John’s School and all the kids crowded and started to fight with each other but he stood up and but when he stood up, he isn’t fighting so he didn’t run, everyone else ran and he say the police just take the pepper spray and spray it in their eyes."

"My baby is in their program and this area where we live, I put my baby in the program so he isn’t on the street, they chance my baby, my baby already said he isn’t going back to the program so I don’t know what they will do." 

Police say that the mother has made a report and the police are following up on it.  They say that if the officer who has been named is found to be in the wrong, then he will be disciplined.

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