KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A judge said Friday that Mario Badia used poor judgment when he put his hands on the student during the incident last year.
Officials said the school's secretary had called Badia to the office to help diffuse an argument between the victim and his mother.
"I was talking to the officer the whole entire time telling my son to calm down, don't do anything, don't move while the officer was cursing my son out, telling him he was nothing," Alexis Richmond, the victim's mother said.
"When Officer Badia did that towards me during the moment I feared for my life," the victim said in a letter he wrote.