A 14-year-old teenage boy was choked, slammed to the ground and arrested by Miami police officers who claim the teen stared at them in a “dehumanizing” way.Tremaine McMillian, an African-American teenage boy from southernFlorida, spent Memorial Day on the beach with his family. Whilehe was ‘rough-housing’ with another teen on Haulover Beach,police drove by on an ATV and told him that his behavior wasunacceptable.  They asked the boy where his parents where,and McMillian walked away.The Miami-Dade police officers subsequently jumped off their ATVsto restrain the teen, claiming he gave them “dehumanizingstares” and “appeared threatening.” Maurissa Holmes,the mother of the boy, captured the incident on her cell phone.Video footage shows one police officer choking the 14-year-oldboy while the other officer is restraining him.“He started choking me, and as he was choking me, I urinatedon myself because I couldn’t breathe,” McMillian told WSVN-TVafter the incident. The boy’s mother was close by and ran over tothe officers, telling them to get off. They told her to standback.“I ran over with my son and used my cell phone when I saw myson and he couldn’t breathe,” she told CBS4. “There was noreason to slam him on the ground like that the way they did. He’sa child, not an adult. For them to jump off their ATV and dothis, this is wrong. I want justice. You don’t do that to achild.”After the incident, the police said McMilliam clenched his fists,which made him appear threatening. But the boy says he wascarrying and taking care of his Pit Bull puppy and giving the dogmilk from a bottle right before the police attacked him, makingit impossible for his fists to be clenched. “That police report was not accurate,” the boy’smother told CBS4. McMillian said the report also failed tomention the presence of his dog, which was also hurt by theofficers.“I feel sad. [The officer] got in front of me… and he slammedmy hand,” the teen said, describing the incident. “Then hestarted choking me. Then my 6-week old Pit Bull mix named Pologot hurt and bruised his front paw when the police grabbed me andslammed me down. It makes me feel sad.”Kearra McMillian, the victim’s sister, feels equally saddened bythe event, and believes the officers responded out of rage thatthey were being ignored.“My brother did nothing wrong,” she said. “He didn’tsay anything to the officer. He just kept walking. I guess theyjust got mad because he wouldn’t stop.”Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta defended the actionsof the officers, claiming they did the right thing in restrainingsomeone who appeared hostile, and that they had no choice but totake the boy into custody after he resisted their orders. Heclaims that flailing arms and clenched fists are considered athreat, and that the reports of the puppy’s presence areinsignificant. McMillian has been charged with resisting arrestwith violence, which is a felony, and disorderly conduct.An assistant public defender at the Juvenile Justice Center hasentered a plea of not guilty on behalf of the 14-year-old. JudgeMaria DeJesus Santoveria has ordered a trial for the boy, whichhas been scheduled to begin July 16.This article originally appeared on: RT    in