© WSB-TV11-year-old Omari Grant had a gun in his face while playing with his friends.
Henry County - A group of children building a tree fort in a wooded area near their home were accosted by foul-mouthed, gun-wielding police officers who treated them "as if they were robbing a store."
Omari Grant, 11, and several of his friends were off playing together in a wooded area near their subdivision. On that day earlier this March, the boys decided to build a tree fort in the woods out of some branches and sticks.
A busybody neighbor witnessed the boys removing tree limbs and promptly called 9-1-1 for a police response.
Several officers from the Henry County Police Department arrived, and one came running with his gun already drawn, the children said according to
WSB-TV.
The boys were allegedly proned out on the ground and cussed at by armed agents of the government.
"He was crying," said his mother, Janice Baptiste, to WSB-TV. "All he could get out at the time was, 'Mom, he had a gun in my face.'"
She continued: "I got him to calm down. Then he told me how they had them down on the ground, and they had to spread their legs, as if they were robbing a store."