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A Long Island family is suing the Nassau County Police Department after they claim their sons were profiled, brutalized and wrongfully charged with assault. Officers arrested Ahmad Tillery, his brother, 14, and a third teen last week in connection to an assault on a 32-year-old Latino man. The teens were charged with the crime, however, their parents say they had nothing to do with it.

“They kidnapped them,” David Tillery father of the two teen brothers said according to CBS 2 New York. “You mean to tell me my children can’t do what other children do in Garden City or Jericho?” Tillery added. The incident took place last Tuesday when school was out for exams and the brothers and another teen was riding bikes when police stopped and accused them.

“Beaten, slammed on a car, slammed on the ground, abused, cursed at, mocked and then psychologically tortured for four or five hours,” Fred Brewington, the boys’ attorney stated according to the news station.

“You do not have the right to come into our community and just abuse our children,” their mother Mondy Tillery said. While in police custody the teen’s parents were left in the dark.

“The police that kidnapped my two boys had me looking in dumpsters,” Mondy said. The family says they tracked the boy’s cellphones to the police station where according to Tillery officers asked “‘Did you know that your sons are a part of a gang?’ Tillery responded saying, ‘the Boy Scouts?’”

The Nassau County Police Department, however, denies any wrongdoing, stating the teens were arrested 10 minutes after not far away from an assault on a 32-year-old Hispanic man. Adding that they not only fit the description, but that the victim positively identified them.

According to an investigation, one of the teens tried to flee the scene according to CBS 2 New York.

“On Jan. 21, 2020 at 12 p.m., a 32-year-old male Hispanic was assaulted by three juveniles in Roosevelt,” Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said. “An investigation was conducted and three juveniles were arrested for this crime. One of the juvenile subjects, age 15, was also charged with resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration. The investigation has revealed that police officers acted within the scope of the law and exercised restraint and professionalism at the time of arrest.”

Their parents, however, claim cellphone tracking proves their sons were at a friend’s home at the time of the crime. They’re now suing the police department.

“We want their names to be cleared, and for the officers … for them to be arrested,” Pastor Arthur Mackey Jr. told the news station. However, the department stands by the charges but Internal Affairs is investigating.

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