Posted on 04/21/2015 10:00:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The parents of a Fairfield boy abducted while sleeping in his family's car are blasting police a day after their son was found safe.
A thief drove away with Broc Guzman Monday and even though the case had a happy ending, the boy's parents are angry at police.
Cell phone video shows Broc’s mother Suzanne Guzman being held on the ground by officers after refusing to allow them to search the family home for her year eight-old-son.
Fairfield police released the frantic 911 call from Suzanne Guzman who called police saying that the family car had been stolen and her son had been in the back seat at that time.
Broc himself spoke out on Tuesday: "I just want to say thank you to everyone that was looking for me, I'm very happy to be home,” he said. But Broc’s parents told NBC Bay Area Tuesday they feel they were mistreated during a panicky time. The Guzman family is considering filing a complaint against the Fairfield Police Department.
“We were treated like criminals from the get go from the first officer that showed up,” said Paul Guzman, Broc’s father.
The Guzmans’ released cell phone video taken a short time after police responded to their 911 call.
The video shows an emotional scene: police explaining why they need to search the missing boy's house and hysterical parents who claim police manhandled the boy’s mom because she insisted they wait until her husband arrived
Napa Jewelry Store Employee Attacked by Robbers ‘What am I doing what am I doing — I can't breathe I can't breathe," Suzanne Guzman can be heard saying in the video. “My wife wouldn't let them in the house without me because we have two dogs and one of them will bite if I'm not present, so she didn't give them permission to go in because I was out looking for my son,” said Paul Guzman.
"The first thing you do anytime you're looking for somebody missing is you start where they last were," one of the officers in the cell phone video can be heard saying. "We want to confirm he is not inside the house — that he didn't get out of the car and go back inside the house."
Paul Guzman says he understands police needed to search his home but says officers didn't show any compassion for parents in distress.
“Obviously these officers need better training on dealing with a mother who is hysterical about losing her kid,” Guzman said. “In my opinion it was not a professional way to handle it. If your son is missing I'm sure all of you can understand how upset you're going to be."
You couldn’t pay me enough to be a cop. What a tough situation. You don’t want social workers for cops, but like I said, my craziest friends growing up became the cops. I don’t know the answer.
Some times the cops are real knuckleheads.
Are the police mad because they didn’t get the opportunity to shoot the dogs?
Cop haters thread.
Cop haters thread.
Come one come all.
All cops are bad.
It’s been that way for a quite a while around here....sadly
Why were the parents of the boy abducted while they slept through a car blast involving police? :P
Sounds like she knew the dog would bite and get shot. Rather sensibly, she didn’t want that to happen.
In an earlier article I read that the family has to leave early, because the older brother goes to school in Napa. The father puts the sleeping son in the car while it’s warming up. He ran back in the house for something. Thief just got lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
I was referring to the confusing headline. ;)
Not at all. But I AM appalled at what seems to be a huge jump in police shooting both people and dogs in recent years. Either cops are different or police training is different. Or perhaps the ‘net brings us news from far and wide we would have never heard before.
Maybe the fundamental problem these days is the cops allegiance is more to SEUI and less to John Q Public.
Cops have a job to do.
The media has to sell ads.
This is a story focused on FEELINGS.
Guess which side is hyping on this event.
By the way, I have changed my thinking regarding cops. I used to defend them regardless....but some recent events have changed my perspective. (Ferguson is not one of those events, by the way.)
Pit Bulls in Drug Dealers’ Fierce Canine Corps : Crime:
Ferocious dogs are being used in high- stakes and illegal dogfights at the same time as they serve as the weapons of choice, ‘four-legged guns.’
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-13/news/mn-62013_1_pit-bulls
I suppose you support the actions of the police in this case?
Ping.
I stand corrected. That would have made sense.
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