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Excessive police force

What do you need help with? Is it somehow an ongoing experience? Do you mean the trauma? Do you want legal help to respond to the officers? Is your son injured? What's the living nightmare? Is your son in jail? Maybe I should have just asked you to elaborate. :eek:
 
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Not enough details to really elaborate much advice beyond what Sportster said.

But in a generic sense, there are utterly no guarantees as to what kind of treatment a parent's autistic child may have to deal with in terms of unintended contact with the police. A handful of police departments across the country may have some nominal training on how to deal with autistic people. However most don't, and there is a fair amount of resistance from them echoing the sentiment that they are not social workers.

Set aside the whole concern of the police dealing with autistic citizens, and you are still dealing with a possibility of deadly consequences. That in the course of being questioned or formally arrested, in the event a person in their custody in any way resists them, they can and will use deadly force possibly resulting in death. And more often than not even when prosecuted they are apt to be acquitted in a court of law.
 
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Sportster said:
I agree, but do we even know if the OP's son is on the spectrum? The post is very vague at best on everything.
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That's why I kept my response so generic. Which would apply to Neurotypicals the same as the Neurodiverse. When being stopped and questioned by the police, be compliant.
 
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