Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan was feeding his puppy

Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan was feeding his puppy and playing on the beach with some friends when cops riding ATVs approached him and asked what he was doing. The cops said later that they saw McMillan roughhousing with another teenager, told him it was “unacceptable behavior,” and asked where his mother was. When McMillan walked away, the cops chased him on ATVs, jumped out, pinned him to the ground and arrested him. Cell phone footage taken by his mother shows the boy being thrown to the ground and pinned.  Miami-Dade cop Alvaro Zabaleta justified the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,” which includes “clenched fists.”

A suspended University of Pittsburgh cop named Scott Kercher is scheduled to stand trial on allegations he held a knife to his son's throat. Kercher's two children told authorities that Kercher put a knife to the boy's neck and threatened to cut out his tongue on March 25. Kercher is suspended without pay.

Parents of a son  in Chaparral High School  California who has  Asperger's and other disabilities said they were "thrilled" when their son—who has and struggled to make friends—appeared to have instantly befriended another student they knew only as Daniel. Turns out Daniel was an undercover cop with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department who relentlessly pushed the teenager to sell him his prescription medication. When he refused, the cop gave him $20 to buy him weed. The boy fell to pressure fearing he would lose his new friend if he didn’t. He was arrested for purchasing and reselling narcotics.