A Maryland mother is raising alarms after her 10-year-old son with disabilities was questioned by police at his school after he played with toy money on a school bus.
, Tiffany Kelly called out police in Montgomery County, Maryland, for what she said was"over-policing of minority children."
The money was purchased on Amazon and has "bright pink Asian symbols on the front and back" and dotted lines on it so it won't be confused as real money."I was completely disregarded as my son’s parent," she wrote in the petition, which had garnered more than 400 signatures as of Wednesday morning.
The child, a fourth-grader with Montgomery County Public Schools system, was passing out the fake money to other children on the bus on May 14 as part of his effort to socialize, which Kelly said he struggles with."The police came to the school to question my son," she wrote on the petition."Outrageous. I did not know any of this occurred until almost 4 pm, at the end of the school day, when the officer decided to call me.
"By her own admission, no crime had been committed," Kelly said."At what point do officers determine that a law has not been broken and they move on?""I just don't think I would have heard about this happening if he wasn't black," she said.
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