Ohio cops caught on video searching 5-year-old boys pockets alongside his dad during traffic stop

A family is demanding justice after an Ohio police officer searched their 5-year-old child’s pocket when his dad was pulled over during a routine traffic stop.Brandon Wilson said he was driving his Volkswagen SUV across the street to his mother’s home when Parma Police officers pulled him over at around 9:20 p.m.on Dec.

26, WOIO reported.He said the officers pulled him over because his plates had expired and his front tinted window was too dark.Wilson, whose son was in the car with him, said the cops opened his driver’s side door, questioned him, and then asked him to get out of his vehicle.He complied, and his son followed.Video recorded by the boy’s uncle shows Wilson being searched by cops with his hands up in the air with his son at his side.One of the officers is then seen leaning over and appears to search the 5-year-old’s pockets while his hands are raised in the air.“Dad didn’t give you nothing, right?” the cop can be heard asking the youngster.

The upset father tells his son to put his hands down and stand with his uncle after the search, but the child doesn’t move and appears unsure of what to do.An officer then leads the youngster away from the car.“My son right here and he’s going in my son’s pockets,” Wilson told WOIO.“I’m like, ‘Y’all shouldn’t touch him at all in the first place,’ and then y’all search my car and there’s nothing in there.”Wilson said he complied with all the police orders during the traffic stop to help keep his son calm and knew he had done nothing wrong.However, the concerned father said the incident appears to have shaken the child.“He’s reenacting it with his toys.

That’s not cool.They could have went about it a whole different way,” he said.

“The officers didn’t have to touch him, I don’t care what y’all do to me.”The outraged dad wants the Parma Police Department to launch an internal investigation into the traffic stop.Wilson believes the police had no probable ...