On Friday, June 1, 10-year-old Michael Thomas Jr. was playing outside of his grandmother's house when police officers approached and handcuffed him. 

Footage of the incident was caught on cell phone video and shared across social media.

This is sickening.

10-yo black boy playing outside grandmother's home was wrongfully detained and placed in handcuffs! Chicago police say it was a case of mistaken identity.

Poor kid was so scared that he wet his pants.

These cops need to be held responsible for this.

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Michael's uncle, Victor, can be heard on the video asking the police why they were handcuffing his nephew. 

“They’re telling them that someone called them saying that there is a 12-year-old black kid on a bike with all blue on had a gun,” Victor said in the video. “There was about five little black boys with all blue on.”

“You can see that he doesn’t have any weapons on him,” Michael's grandmother, who can also be heard in the video, told NBC 5 News. “I raised up my grandbaby’s shirt. He don’t have anything on him. Take those handcuffs off of him.”

Police said they had received multiple calls from residents regarding a 10-12-year-old boy in the area with a gun and claim Michael ran away from them when they approached. 

“I was scared. I was crying,” Michael told NBC 5. “That’s when they told me I had escaped from juvenile, and I had a gun. I said, ‘I didn’t escape from juvenile, and I don’t have a gun.’”

Michael's mother, Starr Ramsey, is afraid this incident has traumatized her son and will hurt his mental health going forward.

“I want answers,” Ramsey said. “You can look at him and tell he no teenager. Ten-years-old you get handcuffed? You scarred him for life.”

According to Newsweek, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Michael was released after 15 minutes and argues his officers did nothing wrong.

While he noted he “can only imagine the mother’s and grandmother’s anguish," Johnson says the police did, in fact, follow protocol.

“Keep in mind, this is difficult for an officer to tell right off the bat if you’re 10-years-old, 12-years-old [or] 14 … so, they handcuffed the kid for safety reasons because he did match that description," Johnson said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "They followed all the rules and protocols that we have in place. So, I’m not concerned about that at all.”

Of course, this incident makes us think of Tamir Rice's tragic story, as he was playing, as well. 

Police are investigating the incident and have promised to reach out to Michael's family.