He’s entitled to a bond,” Cobb County Superior Court Judge A. Gregory Poole said in court Tuesday.
Patel was released later in the day, his attorney told CNN.
They show the March 18 incident at a Walmart in the city of Acworth, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta.
Merchant said Patel was just trying to make sure the boy didn’t fall from a scooter his mother was riding on with him in her lap.
Patel had the support of numerous people who were in another room at the courthouse, including friends, relatives and neighbors, the attorney told the judge.
Prosecutors argued the video shows Patel grabbed the child, he shouldn’t have and he fled after the incident.
“The evidence from the video, and I won’t comment on what I think the video really shows, as far as guilt or innocence. »