MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 5-year-old boy is recovering at home Monday after a police vehicle reportedly dragged him in a Binghampton apartment complex.

It happened around 7 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of East Red Oak Drive.

“I said, ‘I just want justice for my son. You was irresponsible. You a police officer, and you done drug my son,'” the boy’s mother said.

She asked us not to identify her but shared photos of her 5-year-old son’s road rash near his left hip.

She found him lying in the road, after her daughter ran inside, screaming for help.

“I thought my son was dead,” the mother said.

Monday, WREG saw a patrol car in the Chickasaw Place Apartments, but that is not the type of police vehicle that has the parent concerned.

She said that on Friday, two officers were on what looked like a police golf cart.

She said the vehicle had been patrolling the area.

“They asked them, ‘Who want to go for a ride on the cruiser?’ All the kids excited, they chasing the cruiser. My son was so happy to have made it on it, and they drove off and drug him,” she said.

She said her son had climbed up on one of the tires to jump on the back, but the cart took off.

Memphis Police said officers were on their way to patrol the Greenline and said hello to kids playing outside.

Police said the officers pulled away when a child tried to grab the cart. They reportedly did not know the boy tried to climb on until other kids flagged them down.

“I know he was hollering. They drug him. They drug him for awhile,” the boy’s mother said.

She told WREG the distance was several yards.

Police said the officers pulled over to make sure the child was okay. The mother claims the police drove off briefly but came back.

Police classify this as an accidental injury, not a crime.