LONDON, Aug. 30 The Metropolitan Police in London have agreed to pay compensation to a teenager who was put in a trash can by a police officer.

Anop Singh, 16, told The Daily Mail he agreed to the 4,000-pound ($8,000) settlement because his attorney told him he had no other recourse. The officer was given a written warning because his superiors decided that he did not act maliciously.

A teenage friend filmed the 2005 exchange between Singh and the constable. The two teenagers were filming the police response to an incident involving other young people when the constable told them to move on.

Anop Singh said he would have been jailed if he had assaulted the officer.

Gurdev Singh, the teen's father, was also angry.

"We are not satisfied and I will always be angry about the way my son was tossed around like a piece of rubbish," he said. "The officer should have been sacked."