Video of 14-year-old's San Jose arrest goes viral as family points fingers at police

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In a case of an adult's word against a minor's, it was the 14-year-old who ended up handcuffed for a fight his parents claim he didn't initiate.

A video taken by the boy's father shows San Jose police handcuffing his son after an alleged fight between the teen and a group of three adults in Los Paseos Park.

The incident happened on March 19 when the boy was reportedly walking his siblings to school when an adult woman allegedly started interrogating him near the park. His sibling and another witness told reporters that after the teen refused to tell the woman where they were headed, an adult male attempted to put him in a headlock.

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"He was walking to school, like every kid does, and three adults took it upon themselves to interrogate him and make him scared," Manuel Mirabal, the boy's father, told KRON4. He said his son was "not emotionally right" after spending a night in jail.

But the stories of who threw the first punch don't match up.

The Mirabals claim one of the adults started the fight but San Jose police disagree. Police reportedly stated the boy punched the man in the face and was arrested for assault and battery and booked into juvenile hall.

The Mirabals have claimed the man who hit their son is an off-duty cop, but San Jose police have not commented on the victim's identity.

The Mirabals posted the video on YouTube, angry that police only arrested their son but none of the adults who were involved.

A police spokeswoman said the officers who responded to this incident acted within the San Jose Police Department's protocol.

The Mirabals have stated that the district attorney has since dropped any charges against their son and that they have now filed a police conduct complaint and hired a lawyer.