A California mother is outraged after police officers responding to her teenage son’s epileptic episode put him in handcuffs and tried to force him into a patrol car instead of calling an ambulance.

The Fresno Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that its internal affairs unit will investigate the Jan. 30 incident, during which it “received a 911 call from a family member of a 16-year-old male suffering from a medical episode inside a local fast-food restaurant.”

“The family member stated that the 16-year-old was combative and harming himself or others until the requested ambulance could arrive,” the statement said.

The City of Fresno’s Office of Independent Review will also review officers’ body camera footage and 911 call, some of which the Fresno Police Department released. The department said the footage it released does not show anything more than cellphone video released to ABC’s Fresno affiliate KFSN by the teen’s mom.

But the department is looking through more body camera video and will release it Wednesday, the statement said.

The mother, Lourdes Ponce, told KFSN that she had her daughter call 911 so that paramedics would respond, not police.

“He was not hurting anybody, he was having a seizure,” she said.

The officers did not respond correctly, she said. “He saw that my son was throwing up and instead of helping him so that he wouldn’t choke on his vomit, they had him on the ground in handcuffs.”

Ponce’s son is recovering from his epileptic attacks at a hospital, but is having trouble receiving care because he is traumatized after the incident, the mother said.

In the 911 call, made from an El Pollo Loco, the 16-year-old’s sister tells a dispatcher that her brother has been having seizures since the day before because he had been off his medication to undergo neurological testing.

“He’s jerking,” the sister advises in the 911 call. She says she earlier gave him lorazepam, a drug used to treat seizure disorders.

When asked if the teen is fighting, his sister tells the dispatcher, “He’s not hurting anyone. He’s trying to get out of the seizure.”

“Paramedics are on the way, don’t do CPR, hold onto him or put anything into his mouth,” the dispatcher says.

“Yes, I know,” the sister replies.

A little later, the sister reports that her brother has become “combative.” The boy can be heard wailing in the background.

Per: NBC