After posing for a photo with the mascot, the boy tapped Gritty’s head, Greenwell said.
"[Brandon] keeps walking, and then Gritty gets out of the chair and then lunges over and punches Brandon ... in the bottom left side of his back," Greenwell told KYW.
Greenwell said Brandon's back was bruised in the incident, according to The New York Times.
"All I wanted [the team] to do was give my son an apology," Greenwell said in an interview with the Delaware News Journal. He also wanted the Flyers to pay for the boy's medical bills and "do something special to make up for it," he said.
Instead, the Flyers proposed giving him a one-game ticket upgrade, said Greenwell, who ended up filing a police report Dec. 21. Philadelphia police are investigating the allegations, the News Journal reported.
The team said in a statement that it "took Mr. Greenwell's allegations seriously and conducted a thorough investigation that found nothing to support this claim," according to the newspaper.
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