A Florida sheriff has fired a decorated deputy who was recorded taunting an autistic student at the middle school where he provided security and guidance.
The Tampa Bay times reports Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri fired Deputy Ural Darling on Friday.
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Gualtieri said Darling, a 22-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, took 13-year-old Evan Dowdy to the behavior therapist’s office at Osceola Middle School last May after the sixth grader threw a book at a teacher.
The sheriff said the boy has the cognitive ability of a first grader and the communication skills of a kindergartner.
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