Police in US state of Utah shoot, wound autistic child

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13-year-old has gunshot wounds on his shoulder, intestine, bladder and ankle. FMTNews

LOS ANGELES: Police in Salt Lake City shot and seriously wounded an autistic child whose mother had called 911 for help when her 13-year-old son started shouting in mental distress.

When the teenager started running from the police, one of the officers opened fire and injured the boy, who is white, with gunshots to the shoulder, intestine, bladder and ankle. “Given the threats of a weapon, they arrived in the area and made contact with this male, that male fled on foot,” Horrocks said.According to Horrocks, the boy was suspected of having “made threats to some folks with a weapon”.In a country plunged into protest and division about a string of police killings, the Utah incident provoked strong reaction among local disability advocacy groups.

 

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