A SCHOOLBOY who was punched in the face by a supermarket security guard after being accused of stealing is too “traumatised” to leave his home.
Shocking footage posted online shows the 12-year-old flying backwards after the guard attacked him in front of horrified shoppers.
The guard can be heard saying “I punch him?” before trying to move out of the way of the camera.
He added: “It’s all on camera, so then he punched me first. He is stealing.
“If he pushed me first, then he pushed me first.”
But the sister of the boy says that he is now too terrified to leave the house, and branded the security guards behaviour as “disgusting.”
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She claims that her brother had gone into the Sainsbury’s store in Elephant and Castle, South East London, after school to buy a snack.
The family deny that the schoolboy who was attacked did anything wrong, claiming he had his bag checked and did not take anything.
But security company Mitie, who supply staff to the supermarket chain, claim that one of the boys was caught on CCTV attempting to steal from the store.
Speaking to The Sun she said: "He asked one of the security guards if he could leave his bike in the store entrance, because he didn't have a chain.
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"The black security guard allowed them to do that, and then they went into the store to get their snacks.
"As they went to the back of the store, the other security guard was trailing them, and when they went to go and pay he told them he needed to search them because he thought they were stealing.
"They didn't find anything on them or in their bags, because they didn't take anything. But the security guard carried on accusing them of stealing from the shop.
"My brother was standing at the side quietly at this point, and the guard was shouting at his friend.
"He saw the security guard get physical with his friend, which wasn't caught on camera, and he decided to leave the store because he was scared and didn't want to be treated like that.
"He tried to leave, but was followed by the security guard who told him to 'come back here' and he was begging him to leave him alone because he didn't do anything.
"The guard was then in his face and very aggressive, and my brother just kept pleading to let him leave and that he hadn't done anything.
'HUMILIATED'
"He then punched him in the face, it was so brutal he flew backwards. He is absolutely traumatised by the whole thing.”
The family say they have reported it to the police, who confirmed that they attended the store in connection to the incident.
She added: "He doesn't want to leave home, he won't go shopping and it is just horrible for us to see as a family.
"He feels humiliated and it's gone viral which is so difficult for us to see.
"We are so thankful to the woman who filmed it because she helped confirm it was a false accusation of theft.
"We have spoken to the manager of the store yesterday, who apologised and confirmed the security guard has been removed, but we have decided to escalate it.
"They also confirmed that nothing had been stolen by my brother or his friend, and tried to claim it was the security guards first day on the job which doesn't seem true.
"He was very apologetic but he can't really do much, and said we could escalate it.
This kind of thing shouldn't happen, he is 12 years old and he's never experienced anything like this before. It's disgusting
"This kind of thing shouldn't happen, he is 12 years old and he's never experienced anything like this before. It's disgusting.
"It's completely knocked my brother's confidence, and he just doesn't want to go out any more."
A spokeswoman for Mitie said: “The video circulating on social media does not capture the whole incident.
"Earlier CCTV shows two youths enter the store, one of them places goods in his bag and they attempt to leave without paying.
“The Security Officers asked the youths to return the items and an altercation took place where our officer was physically assaulted and verbally threatened.
“Police attended the scene and we are conducting an internal investigation.
"With retail crime and violence at unprecedented levels, our colleagues work in extremely challenging environments and are often in harm’s way.”
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A Sainsbury's spokeswoman said: "We are urgently investigating this incident."
A Metropolitan Police spokesman added: “On Wednesday, 25 May police were called to a shop on New Kent Road where they spoke to a group of people reporting that a member of security staff had assaulted a child the previous day.”
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