The family of a child with a disability who was arrested when he was 8 years old in a school in Key West ( Florida ) will file a lawsuit against the city, his lawyer, Ben Crump , announced on Monday , who has released a video where the police officer is seen struggling to handcuff him because he's too small.

Social networks have exploded with the video and several people wonder where the therapeutic help for the minor is instead of the police option of confining him to a detention center in Monroe County , where the Florida Keys are , a rosary of islands in the extreme south of the state.

The video, from two years ago, was released today by attorney Crump, known for representing several cases of African Americans subjected to police discrimination or abuse, such as George Floyd, killed in May at the hands of a white policeman in Minnesota , prompting a wave of protests across the United States.

Crump has announced in a statement that it will file a lawsuit against the City of Key West, the Monroe County School District and the officers in charge of the arrest, on behalf of the child's mother, Bianca Diegennaro . "Although he posed no threat to the officers or the school personnel, the minor was put in the back seat of a police vehicle, taken to a detention center and charged with the crime of assault," Crump lamented.

"At 3.5 feet tall (1.07 meters) and 64 pounds (29 kilos) in weight, this little guy posed no danger to anyone," he said.

The lawyer has explained that, although the child was in an Individualized Education Program (IEP) because he suffers from disabilities, he was left in the care of a substitute teacher who "did not know or was not concerned" about his special needs.

He has detailed that the teacher forced him to move where she wanted, to which the minor responded aggressively. The substitute teacher then called the police, who threatened the boy with jail and told him that he had a very serious problem.

"This is a harrowing example of how our educational system and policies train children to be criminals by treating them as criminals. If convicted, this child will be a convicted criminal at age 8," denounces Crump.

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