Cops handcuff and interrogate boy, 7, for hours over missing $5.

• Micho wrote on 2013-01-30 22:45

  This kid was no killer — but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one.
  
  Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal’s office, a terrified 7-year-old boy was hauled out of class, handcuffed like a hardened criminal and “interrogated” by police for a grueling 10 hours — all over a playground dispute involving $5, his family is charging.
  
  “My son was crying, ‘Mommy, it wasn’t me! Mommy, it wasn’t me!’ I never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We’re traumatized,” Wilson Reyes’ distraught mom, Frances Mendez told The Post last night.
  
  “Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs!’’ she said. “It was horrible. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
  
  The bizarre overreaction by cops came after the child had been accused of swiping $5 from another student after school.
  
  The money, which was supposed to be used for a school trip that never happened, had fallen on the ground in front of Wilson and two other boys, and one of them scooped it up.
  
  Wilson was falsely accused of taking it, and he scuffled with one of the kids.
  
  Officers showed up at PS X114 on Dec. 4 at about 10:20 a.m., and handcuffed and held Wilson in a room there for four hours. They then hauled him off to the 44th Precinct station house for another six hours of interrogation and verbal abuse, according to a $250 million claim against the city and the NYPD.
  
  The boy protested his innocence, to no avail.
  
  “Reyes was handcuffed and verbally, physically and emotionally abused, intimidated, humiliated, embarrassed and defamed,” the documents say. He was then charged with robbery.
  
  Mendez said that she and her sister first went to the station house, they were told they couldn’t see her son.
  
  When cops finally allowed the pair to see the boy, they found the panicked kid seated in a shabby chair with his left wrist cuffed to the wall, Mendez said.

  
  
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  So what do you guys think about this? I feel pretty bad for the boy eitherways, I mean, why did the police get involved. . . ? He's just 7, a trip to the Principal's office or his homeroom teacher would've been enough.
• Cynic wrote on 2013-01-30 23:07
  Considering how our pathetic excuse for a law system works, I'm not surprised. But he wasn't breaking any laws in the first place, so I'm not sure why they were called. What dipshit would even call the police in the first place? Whoever did should get their ass kicked for causing something so traumatizing.
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-01-30 23:12
  And this is why people hate the police.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-01-30 23:50
  That's a bunch of pathetic bullshit right there. FIRE ALL OF THE COPS INVOLVED IN THIS!
  
  They obviously have incredibly shitty judgement as a police officer and should be fired immediately. There is no excuse for this whatseover. NONE!
  
  This makes me hate police officers so much >.>
• Enoshima Smoothie wrote on 2013-01-30 23:59
  You know I'm not even surprised when I read articles like this anymore.
  This was not a matter for the police, it was a matter between two children, their parents, and their school.
  
  Just god.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2013-01-31 01:16

  They then hauled him off to the 44th Precinct station house for another six hours of interrogation and verbal abuse, according to a $250 million claim against the city and the NYPD.

  Quote from Cucurbita in some topic:

  [Image: https://i.minus.com/iCeWI8eteiSS5.jpg]

  
  Shit, it's not like they killed him.
• Dracius wrote on 2013-01-31 01:23
  Police up here aren't too bright.
  My dad was accused of killing his wife and children by some stupid idiot (Which he didn't by the way, I'm still here), so they called the cops over to my house.
  
  My mother, my sister, and I ran outside to see what was going on. We were all screaming and crying and confused as to what was going on. They handcuffed my dad AS WELL AS MY MOM (Who he had supposedly killed), and we were shoved into some car to be taken down to the station.
  
  -This guy killed his wife and kids
  -Hey look, here comes some lady and 2 kids running and crying
  -CUFF EM
  
  Not to mention they pepper-sprayed my pomeranian, who they deemed a 'threat'
  A disgustingly adorable, overly-excited pomeranian.
• Oizen wrote on 2013-01-31 01:38

  Quote from Dracius;1022914:

  Police up here aren't too bright.
  My dad was accused of killing his wife and children by some stupid idiot (Which he didn't by the way, I'm still here), so they called the cops over to my house.
  
  My mother, my sister, and I ran outside to see what was going on. We were all screaming and crying and confused as to what was going on. They handcuffed my dad AS WELL AS MY MOM (Who he had supposedly killed), and we were shoved into some car to be taken down to the station.
  
  -This guy killed his wife and kids
  -Hey look, here comes some lady and 2 kids running and crying
  -CUFF EM
  
  Not to mention they pepper-sprayed my pomeranian, who they deemed a 'threat'
  A disgustingly adorable, overly-excited pomeranian.

  
  Its illegal to be undead.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2013-01-31 01:48
  In this case, two wrongs doesn't make a right.
  
  It was wrong for the police to be called and detain the boy. It is also wrong for the parents to make a 250 million dollar claim against the City/NYPD.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2013-01-31 03:36

  Quote from Dracius;1022914:

  Police up here aren't too bright.
  My dad was accused of killing his wife and children by some stupid idiot (Which he didn't by the way, I'm still here), so they called the cops over to my house.
  
  My mother, my sister, and I ran outside to see what was going on. We were all screaming and crying and confused as to what was going on. They handcuffed my dad AS WELL AS MY MOM (Who he had supposedly killed), and we were shoved into some car to be taken down to the station.
  
  -This guy killed his wife and kids
  -Hey look, here comes some lady and 2 kids running and crying
  -CUFF EM
  
  Not to mention they pepper-sprayed my pomeranian, who they deemed a 'threat'
  A disgustingly adorable, overly-excited pomeranian.

  
  
  Hey, people ARE that stupid, you know.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-31 05:53
  [Image: http://i.minus.com/iqdmKjGTMzZLg.jpg]

  
  
  Seems the police have nothing better to do with their tax payer money
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-31 05:53
  [Image: http://i.minus.com/iqdmKjGTMzZLg.jpg]

  
  
  Seems the police have nothing better to do with their tax payer money
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-31 06:01
  Never forget, the police aren't supposed to protect the people. They're here to protect the law.
• truefire wrote on 2013-02-05 07:00

  Quote from EndlessDreams;1022931:

  In this case, two wrongs doesn't make a right.
  
  It was wrong for the police to be called and detain the boy. It is also wrong for the parents to make a 250 million dollar claim against the City/NYPD.

  
  
  I dunno... lawsuit-happy as this country is, I do think a 250 million dollar claim is [S]far, far, far, far, far[/S] more than enough to ensure something this idiotic doesn't happen again for... at least a decade. I'd like to say it might be a longer deterrent, but that would imply I have faith in the overly general competence of the police, faith that has been dwindling rapidly over the years as is.
• Hanna wrote on 2013-02-07 06:55

  Quote from Osayidan;1022849:

  And this is why people hate the police.

  
  Police are assholes and I hate them.