Police officer tackling victim | Pic: The Evening Standard

An enquiry has been launched after police officer allegedly attacked a 15-year-old.

Terrell Decosta Jones-Burton has suffered a broken jawbone, broken teeth and bleeding on the brain after having a seizure in the ambulance taking him to hospital.

These injuries happened after he was allegedly charged by an officer as he cycled along Southwark Park Road.

Police said officers were responding to reports of a mobile phone robbery 20 minutes earlier.

The female victim had told officers that the suspect had fled on a bicycle.

CCTV footage allegedly shows a pursuing officer knocking Jones from his bike before the teenager’s head smashed into the doorway of a local chicken shop.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission have appealed for witnesses and anyone with video footage of the incident to contact them immediately.

A spokesman of the IPCC said that Jones is in a stable condition at King’s College hospital.

Terrell’s mother Shereen Jones released an image on Facebook of her son with a bloody face and a split lip.

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Ms Jones, 35, said her son, a Year 11 Bacon’s College student, has no criminal record.

She told The Evening Standard: “I get in the ambulance and all I can see is his face just shattered, just completely disfigured. He looked like a dead person, that’s how bad he looked.

“I almost didn’t recognise him. I burst into tears.”

Ms Jones said she had spoken to her eldest son by phone just minutes before he was stopped on Tuesday.

She added: “He was rushing to get home so he wouldn’t be grounded for the next week…

“It’s outrageous. He looks like a grown man, but he’s my little boy. It was a case of mistaken identity.”

Witnesses described the moment officers intervened as they stopped the cyclist at 9.27pm, about three quarters of a mile from the scene of the reported robbery near Rotherhithe station.

Bogdan Sadowski, 52, who works in a curry house on Southwark Park Road, said: “To be honest I was shocked and a little shaken because it all happened so suddenly and without warning. I don’t think I have seen anything like it before.”

One of his colleagues, T.A Raju, added: “I wasn’t aware of the details back then but after reading the news I became more inclined to think that what happened was wrong and that the situation could have been dealt with in a better way.”

An IPCC spokesman said: “The Met made a mandatory referral to the IPCC which is now investigating the incident. IPCC investigators were deployed to the scene and attended post incident procedures.”

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The incident comes as the Metropolitan Police are facing a series of controversies after several cases of young black men who died or faced lasting injuries after being stopped by police have been reported.

Tumaini Joseph is another young black person who claimed to have been assaulted by a police officer.