Utah commotion, police shoot autistic boy who had seizure – serious 13-year-old boy

More controversy by the American police and a new wave of indignation in the United States for an episode that occurred in Salt Lake City in Utah. A woman called the police because her autistic son was having a seizure and was screaming at the top of his lungs. The officers who arrived at the scene ordered the 13-year-old boy to duck and then, without being heard, opened fire, hitting the teenager several times. The boy, Linden Cameron, now hospitalized with injuries to his shoulder, ankles, intestines and bladder: his condition, according to doctors, is serious.

The mother, Golda Barton, told local media She called 911 last Friday (the 113th American) for help, as her son was going through a crisis. In fact, the woman had recently returned home after the first day of work in more than a year and found her son in the middle of a breakdown of separation anxiety. He wasn’t armed, he was trying to get attention. The officers should have used a minimum of force, the mother said. Instead, officers showed up at the door and, after telling him to lie down on the ground, opened fire.