From [HERE] Syracuse police are under fire over a viral video that captured three white cops taking an 8-year-old black boy to a patrol car after they received a report that he allegedly stole a bag of chips from a convenience store.

The footage shot by Kenneth Jackson and widely shared on social media shows the crying boy being detained by the officers on Sunday,  the Post-Standard reported.

“What is y’all doing?” the bystander asks an officer holding the little boy by the arms. 

“Guess. Take a guess what I’m doing,” the cop replies, but Jackson continues to question them.

“He looks like a baby to me. I don’t know what you’re doing. So what’s going on, then?” Jackson says.

Another officer tells him the boy “was stealing stuff.”

“Nah, man, so he’s stealing a bag of chips, you’re treating him like an old cold—– killer?” Jackson says, swearing at the officers as they put the child in the car.

“If he stole some chips, I’ll pay for them! I’ll pay for them! Leave him alone! He’s a kid!” he shouts.

The boy’s father, Anthony Weah, told the Post-Standard that police went to his home after the incident and told him his three boys were accused of stealing the chips.

Weah said the cops were friendly and didn’t press charges — but he was shocked when he saw the video on social media later.

“Why would the police treat that child like that? Over a $3 bag of chips,” Weah told the news outlet, adding that he wants to file a complaint against the police.  

“He got snatched off that bike. The bike hit the ground and chips went everywhere,” he said. “It was just beyond me that they were actually treating this baby like this.”

Jackson added: “There’s other ways to rectify this besides scare tactics. Now that’s just another youth that’s scarred by the system.”