A school resource-officer was fired in Florida for using improper conduct against an autistic boy at Osceola Middle School.
The investigation into the school resource deputy stationed at the school started after the 13-year-old’s mother became suspicious after noticing her son’s behavior had been deteriorating. That prompted the mother to send him to school with a microphone in his pocket according to investigators.
“When I would drive him to school in the morning… he would act very stressed out and with high anxiety,” Megan Dowdy told FOX 13 News.
Her son soon came home with a recording of an interaction he had with his school’s resource officer. According to Fox News, the boy had cognitive skills of a first grader and the communications skills of a kindergartner.
Dowdy said that what she heard on the tape was shocking.
It first started when the school called their resource Deputy, Ural Darling, 57, to deal with a student. That student was Dowdy’s son, who had thrown a book at his teacher in class.
Surveillance video shows the officer taking the boy to the behavioral specialist’s office. CCTV footage shows officer Darling twirling around handcuffs while he walks with the boy and another woman down the hallway.
When they got to the behavioral specialist’s office Darling can be heard on the mic yelling at the child, taunting and threatening him with handcuffs. “You want me to throw these handcuffs on you?” Darling yells.
“No!” the boy replies.
