Jones said none of the group had any drugs or was doing anything illegal.

Gray said she was told at first that she could not see her son, and was given several different explanations for the exact charges against him — including, at one point, being told it was a case of “mistaken identity.” He was later charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, but Gray said she still hasn’t been given the incident report or told the names of all four officers. She also said that she has had difficulty trying to contact city officials.

“We just get the runaround,” Gray said. “They look at us like we’re nothing, like we’re the ones who did the crime. The blue code (of silence) is what they do, the blue code is what they are.”

Gray said her son needed surgery on his eye because of an inner orbital fracture and may need a second surgery.

Asked if he would make a full recovery, Gray said, “No.”

“He sees double,” she said. “He’s just not going to be right. Home is not home anymore, because they destroyed my family. They destroyed not only him, but all of us.”

Gray said she plans to go forward with a civil action against the city.