TOLEDO -- A local mother is outraged after she says her 14 year old son was tased by Toledo Police at the Westfield Franklin Park Mall.
14-year-old, Martez Moore is in the hospital today after being tased Friday night by Toledo Police officers.
Martez is a special needs child with epilepsy.
"3 officers slammed my son head first into the ground, a 14 year old, (and) they maced him," said his mother Marcia Moore. She says officers then tased her son three times.
The police report says the boy was tased twice.
According to that report a mob of 500 disorderly individuals gathered outside the mall.
Moore says she became angry at the officer on scene, J Petro, when he did nothing to disperse the mob who she says was threatening her son.
Moore was then arrested.
"As he twisted me around and slammed me on the ground my son tried to push him off me, leave my mom alone," said Moore.
Moore says that's when her son was slammed to the ground, maced and tased 3 three times. "3 grown men without tasing him, should have been able to control a 14 year old boy."
Martez was arrested and put into a police vehicle. He began having epileptic seizures and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
"When they got him to St. V's nobody told them this child had been tased," said Moore.
According to the Toledo Police Department's taser policy, tasers should never be used on anyone who appears to be under the age of 13 and anyone tased must be taken to the hospital for evaluation.
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