Autistic Child Left In Police Car For Hours After Violent School Arrest, Sparking Lawsuit 03/11/21 AT 3:45 PM The family of an 11-year-old autistic boy in Colorado has filed a lawsuit against the Douglas County school district after the student was violently arrested and left in a car for hours. Police representatives say they were told he had stabbed another student with scissors, when in fact he had simply scratched someone with a pencil, according to reports. A classroom spat in August 2019 resulted in the child, referred to as A.V. in the lawsuit, poking another student with a pencil and being referred to the school psychologist. The principal called resource officers Sidney Nicholson and Lyle Peterson and told them that A.V. had “stabbed another student.”