The mother of an autistic teen is speaking out after her son was shot by cops on Sept. 4 as they responded to her call for help.
Golda Barton said her son, 13-year-old Linden Cameron, was having a breakdown and she called law enforcement officers to ask for a crisis intervention team. “I said, ‘Look, he’s unarmed.
He doesn’t have anything. He just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,'” she told CNN affiliate KUTV. The incident happened in Salt Lake City, Utah where Cameron’s mother said he is now recovering from injuries to his shoulder, ankles, intestine and bladder.
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