Saturday, March 17, 2007

I'm all for law and order but...

BALTIMORE - Police arrested a 7-year-old boy, handcuffed him and hauled him down to the station house on a charge of riding a motorized dirt bike on a sidewalk.

Then, according to his mother, Gerard Mungo Jr. was handcuffed to a bench and interrogated before being released to his parents.

"They scared me," Gerard told The Baltimore Examiner before breaking down in tears.


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There must be more to this story. What in the hell makes someone arrest a seven-year-old?

This bugs me because it undermines efforts to go after real criminals.


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