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Cop Handcuffs 11-Year-Old Boy for Bouncing Basketball, Mom Says – The Sun Sentinel

An overzealous cop slapped handcuffs on an 11-year-old boy who wouldn’t stop bouncing a basketball after a game, the kid’s mom said.

Fatayi Jomoh was bouncing the ball after a game at the Police Athletic League of Jacksonville when an officer repeatedly asked him to stop. He didn’t — and was cuffed, according to Newsweek.

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