A Mississippi family is asking the FBI and Attorney General's office to investigate their claim that local officers pointed a gun at their 6-year-old son with special needs after storming their home searching for the boy's uncle.

According to MSNewsNow.com, Paul and Angela Thompson allege Ridgeland officers came to their Jackson home last Friday in an unmarked car looking for the woman's brother, Carneigio Gray, on an outstanding contempt of court warrant for failing to appear in court on a 2012 paraphernalia charge.

"My son was telling the police officers to stop to not do that," said Angela Thompson. "Please don't hurt his uncle. And that's when the guns were drawn on him and my mother was telling them 'hey please don't point your gun at my grandbaby. Please don't do that.'"

Ridgeland Lt. John Neal claims that, during the episode, Gray resisted arrest, presumably prompting officers from his department and the nearby Hinds County Deputies office to draw their weapons. Reportedly, the parents have not yet filed formal charges with the department.

The FreeThoughtProject.com, highly doubts any of the officers involved will be disciplined, comparing it to a recent incident in San Antonio where officer Daniel Lopez held his wife and kids hostage at gunpoint and was later allowed to return to the force with back pay.

The website adds late last year in Oklahoma, police also handcuffed a 9-year-old boy with special needs after being called to a local school with complaints of the boy was acting out and making threats. In footage from the scene, the boy and his father can be heard pleading with officers to release him and his mother, Amanda Dawn Burton, later claimed that he suffered at least 13 bruises to his body. In addition to ADHD, Burton said her son also suffers from schizophrenia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

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