MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2013 A 14-year-old boy was reportedly playing rough with a friend in Miami Beach when police approached the teens and ordered them to stop.<\/p>\n
When cops asked Tremaine McMillian<\/strong> to point out his mother, they say the boy reacted in a way that justified being choked and slammed to the ground. McMillan<\/strong> gave the officers \u201cdehumanizing stares\u201d and clenched his fists in a threatening manner.<\/p>\n In juvenile court on Tuesday (May 28), McMillan\u2019s <\/strong>family said that the officers\u2019 claims were wrong as the boy was said to be feeding his six-month-old puppy with a bottle at the time. McMillian\u2019s <\/strong>mother, Maurissa Holmes,<\/strong> captured the violent arrest of her son on a cell phone video camera. Police assert they approached McMillan<\/strong> after they saw him slam another boy into the sand, but the teenager says the cops came up to him on an ATV and slapped a puppy out of his hand. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta<\/strong> said that McMillian\u2019s<\/strong> supposed actions after they approached him showed he was resisting arrest and the officers acted to \u201cneutralize the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2013 A 14-year-old boy was reportedly playing rough with a friend in Miami Beach when police approached the teens and ordered them to stop. When cops asked Tremaine McMillian to point out his mother, they say the boy reacted in a way that justified being choked and slammed to the ground. McMillan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}