A Pittsburgh-area man was placed on administrative leave from his firefighter role after footage surfaced of him pinning down a young Black kid at a neighborhood playground.

Tom D'Andrea was charged with simple assault and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors, after he was identified as the man in the video who used excessive force on a 13-year-old boy on June 26. According to the Pittsburgh City Paper, the incident occurred on June 25.

Court documents reveal the two first interacted when D'Andrea saw the boy near a deserted construction truck. The minor says he walked over to the vehicle so he could sit in it, per CBS Pittsburgh. Believing he was vandalizing the truck, D'Andrea called the police on the young man. When law enforcement did not arrive, he decided to use excessive force against the victim.

The boy's sister recorded the entire incident, begging the adult to leave her brother alone. When D’Andrea noticed what the girl was doing, he threatened to assault her as well.

"Can you please get off my brother?" she asked.

"I am holding him. I am not hurting him," D’Andrea argued.

"I am gonna hold him, his mouth his bleeding, he has asthma. Can you please get off my brother?" the sister asked again.

"I don’t give a f**k, he just assaulted me. Get away from me now or I am going to hit you too," D’Andrea barked.

The boy admits he did swing at the adult, but only after the 46-year-old struck him first. A police report following the incident confirms that D’Andrea was, in fact, the “aggressor” in this altercation.

"How could you? How could you? Weren't you raised better? What if your mother saw this video, how would she feel to see her son attacking a child? I think she would be disgusted," the boy’s mother Shalaya Hasbrouck said to WPXI in response to D’Andrea’s behavior.

Hasbrouck’s son suffered a bump on his head, swollen lips and a bloody nose as a result of the altercation and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

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