7-Year-Old Handcuffed Over $5, Says ...

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7-Year-Old Handcuffed Over $5


The family of a 7-year-old New York boy is suing police and the city for $250 million, saying cops handcuffed and interrogated the boy for ten hours after a scuffle over lunch money at school.

Wilson Reyes, a student at Public School 114 in the Bronx reportedly got into a fight with a fellow student in December after he was accused of taking $5 of lunch money that had fallen on the ground in front of him. Responding to a complaint of assault and robbery, the police were called and took the boy to the local police precinct where officers allegedly handcuffed and interrogated him for ten hours, according to the lawsuit.

"Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs," Wilson's mother, Frances Mendez, told the New York Post. "It was horrible. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," she said.

The claim, filed by family attorney Jack Yankowitz, accuses the NYPD, among other things, of false imprisonment, physical, verbal, emotional and psychological abuse, and deprivation of Reyes' constitutional rights.

Robbery charges against the boy were later dropped, and the NYPD, though it disputes the accusations in the suit, is investigating the incident.

"While the lawyer's claims are grossly untrue in many respects, including fabrication as to how long the child was held, the matter is nonetheless being reviewed by the department's Internal Affairs Bureau," Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne told ABC News in an emailed statement.


http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/7-old-handcuffed-over-5-says-suit-232812597--abc-news-topstories.html

[burntheships]

Wow, you would think that the NYPD would be overwhelmed
with gang violence, drug related crimes, and illegal weapons loose
on the streets.

But no....its a seven year old in a dispute over 5.00.

Worthy of 10 hours of "interrogation?
All officers participating should be stripped of duties.

Was this 7 year old read his rights, allowed to call an attorney?



No wonder crime is rampant in NY.

[petrus4]

The point would not be the $5.  The point would be to encourage a lifetime of terrified, psychological subservience on the boy's part, to police authority.

Understand:  Liberty and extreme fear are mutually exclusive, and the psychopaths know this.  An individual is only going to be concerned about preserving or maintaining his liberty in most cases, as long as it does not conflict with his imperative for survival, to do so.

The American police no longer believe that there is any legitimate form of limitation to their authority.  An individual's rights, Constitutional or otherwise, in their minds can be completely suspended at any time that they consider it appropriate.  This is why I tried to tell Thorfourwinds that seeking police advice about any aspect of the law is futile.  As far as the police are concerned, they hold all the cards, and civilians hold none.

[zorgon]

So... what part of this phrase do yawl not understand?

"While the lawyer's claims are grossly untrue in many respects, including fabrication as to how long the child was held,....."

[petrus4]

So... what part of this phrase do yawl not understand?

"While the lawyer's claims are grossly untrue in many respects, including fabrication as to how long the child was held,....."

One of the differences between you and me, perhaps Zorgon, is that I am not likely to take the word of a police officer over that of a civilian. 

If there is one thing I wish I could cure a couple of the people of this forum of, it is the extremely unhealthy level of desire that they apparently have, to defer to central authorities; particularly the police and military.  I consider the conscientious desire to actually avoid liberty rather than maintaining it, to be one of the most visible and egregious signs of America's current state of degeneracy.  Most of you are not worthy of your Constitution, or of the men who wrote it.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

I would think it would be easy to see how long he was held, they must have recorded the exact time he was 'arrested' and the exact time he was released.
I can't see how there could be a dispute over this alone...

When i was a kid, we had a village bobby
No gun, no radio, no car, just a bicycle, a whistle, and a big stick
He caught my brother red-handed, about to put a brick through a shop window.

He took the brick, took my brother home & told our mother what he was about to do, & left out parents to administer the punishment (which in our family was very relaxed, maybe a few days without TV, comics or sweets)
It worked.

I can't believe that a 'busy & overworked' NY cop had the time, and the inclination, to arrest a 7 rear old kid, and i'm not sure it's even legal to 'interrogate' a 7 year old . Sue the shirts off their backs, i would think, but who ends up paying for it?
We do.
Just take the boy home & spank him, would be the obvious thing to do, after hearing him out of course. A good parent knows when their own kid is lying to them
A storm in a teacup....