By Mataeo Smith After her 14-year-old son returned home with electronic cigarettes that he had stolen from a gas station, a mother from Vermont decided to discipline him by calling the cops, but they may have gone too far. What transpired that May 20, 2021, served as the foundation for the mother’s lawsuit in which she claimed Burlington police discriminated against her Black, unarmed son with intellectual and behavioral issues and used excessive force against him. In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont shared police body-camera footage with The Associa…