<Anchor> In the
United States, the excessive suppression of the police is also controversial.
A police officer dispatched to the house shot a 13-year-old autistic boy who was making a fuss inside the house and seriously injured him.
This is Jung Joon-hyung.
<Reporter> This
is Lyndon Cameron, 13 years old, from Utah, USA.
I'm lying in the intensive care unit after being shot by the police at home on Friday last week.
That night, when Cameron's mother reported, two police officers were dispatched.
Cameron, who has autism, made a fuss at home and asked the police for help to calm down.
[Cameron Mom: I told the police that my son wasn't armed, he was just angry, yelling and screaming.]
But police officers treated Cameron as a criminal, not a patient.
When he ordered him to lie on the floor and the terrified and excited boy tried to run away, he immediately drew out his gun and shot him.
[Cameron's mother: After the police say,'Get on the floor, get down,' bang bang bang...
(
She
shot.)]
Cameron was in serious condition with gunshot wounds in the shoulders, ankles, abdomen and bladder.
Cameron's mother said she wasn't sure why the police shot it, and urged a quick investigation.
[Cameron's mother: Why didn't the police first apply an electric shock or fire a rubber bullet?
My son is a small boy, so why didn't he subdue it with his naked body?]
This incident is also similar to the Daniel Freud incident in New York State in March.
At that time, the police who were dispatched after receiving a request for help from the family put a head covering on the face of Freud, who did not resist much for spitting, and pressed him to death.
There is growing public opinion that the police's violent and clumsy response to the scene has caused harm to innocent citizens.
(Video editing: Jung Yonghwa)