(Newswire.net — February 13, 2015) — New York, DC. – Ten-year-old Courtney Silvera dreams of someday becoming a police detective. “He’s fascinated by the police; he looks up to them,” Courtney’s mom, Krystle Silvera, 30, a nursing student at Long Island University, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. Courtney was eating his cereal at 7 am one morning last week when police officers stormed in to the kitchen shouting. His grandmother, who suffers from brain and lung cancer, answered the door but had difficulty understanding the cops’ reason for being there, the New York’s Daily News reports.
The police were searching for his mother’s ex-boyfriend but he wasn’t there. Courtney started to record the scene on his cellphone when one officer ran across the room and kick Courtney severely in his leg, knocking him down.
Meanwhile, Krystle Silvera, Courtney’s mother was upstairs preparing her 5-year-old daughter for the nursery when she heard her son screaming, ‘You can’t do that! You’re hurting me! Don’t hit me!’ ” she said. She ran downstairs, dressed only in her underclothes,when she was grabbed by a police officer who pulled her out in the freezing cold, the Daily News reports.
In all the commotion, her bra slipped, revealing her pierced breast. The neighbors came out to see what was going on and witnessed the scene.
“The officer flicked the piercing. He flicked the ring up with his finger on my right breast,” she told the Daily News. “He said, ‘Is this what mothers look like these days?’ My neighbors saw me naked. It was degrading. I can deal with the embarrassment of what [the police] did to me in front of my neighbors, but the hardest thing is explaining to my kids that not all police are bad.”
She was struggling out of the policeman’s grip to trying to cover herself up and was later charged with assaulting the cops and was released two days later on $1,500 bail as she plead guilty to disorderly conduct, the Daily News reports.
Once she returned home, she noticed that her son’s leg was bruised and swollen. An X-ray in the hospital showed that Courtney’s leg was fractured.
“I’ve seen a lot of police-brutality cases, but nothing as low as this, kicking a 10-year-old boy,” said the family’s lawyer, Anthony Ofodile.
According to , the Daily News report, Silvera is currently seeking unspecified monetary damages for the alleged civil rights violations, and the Internal Affairs Bureau has opened an investigation based on the allegations in the suit.
Courtney still want’s to become a police detective, while he understands there are good cops as well as bad cops out there.