NYPD on lookout for missing $5; Handcuff and Interrogate suspect for 10 hours; Suspect expected to r - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cops_are_cuff_guys_with_kid_eaRQ39892kXQndMJkDgY9J[/URL] [quote=]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. She quickly snapped a damning photo of the scene. “My sister and I started crying when we saw him,” Mendez said. Seth Acevedo, the boy Wilson was accused of punching and robbing, had been pushed around before by Wilson and other kids, his father Santiago Acevedo said. ...[/quote] The NYPD can never do their job right I mean god damn, letting another criminal go free on the streets. Who knows what heinous crimes he will commit next. [IMG]http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2013/01/30/news/web_photos/cuffedkid131136--525x400.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2013/01/30/news/web_photos/30.1n005.CuffKid.C.TA--525x350.jpg[/IMG]

Wh I God is dead

Uh I'm not really familiar with US law but is it not already illegal to arrest and charge anyone 10 and under?

Why, at no point, did any cops think this was a bad idea?

[QUOTE=MuTAnT;39421545]Uh I'm not really familiar with US law but [B]shouldn't[/B] it be illegal to arrest 10's and under?[/QUOTE]

NYPD is the ultimate abusive police state.

someone had absolutely better lose their job over this assuming the allegations are true

I don't see how treating kids like criminals will yield a positive outcome. In his case, he'll probably develop an intense fear or even hatred for the police.

"Innocent until proven guilty"

[QUOTE=Ericson666;39421589]"Innocent until proven guilty"[/QUOTE] hah

[quote]according to a $250 million claim[/quote] Lol they want a quarter of a billion dollars

[QUOTE=Ericson666;39421589]"Innocent until proven guilty"[/QUOTE] Fuq dat shit

[QUOTE=Ericson666;39421589]"Innocent until proven guilty"[/QUOTE] It's more guilty until proven innocent today.

[QUOTE=TAU!;39421570]I don't see how treating kids like criminals will yield a positive outcome. In his case, he'll probably develop an intense fear or even hatred for the police.[/QUOTE] and this is somehow different from every-other kid in the country. Everyone hates the cops

TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR SUIT? WHAT.

Yeah I think the officers should get in trouble for this, but I can't see why the school called the cops over $5.

I'm sorry i just can't understand why THEY'RE SUING THE CITY FOR TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS. There's compensation and then there's just greed. This is just greed. This does not warrant such a steep number. I'd rather have that money go to, you know, running the city, not in the pocket of an angry mother. I understand that this was unwarranted and even cruel to the child but this is not $250,000,000 cruelty.

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;39421622]Lol they want a quarter of a billion dollars[/QUOTE] always good to aim high

[QUOTE=mysteryman;39421793]I'm sorry i just can't understand why THEY'RE SUING THE CITY FOR TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS. There's compensation and then there's just greed. This is just greed. This does not warrant such a steep number. I'd rather have that money go to, you know, running the city, not in the pocket of an angry mother. I understand that this was unwarranted and even cruel to the child but this is not $250,000,000 cruelty.[/QUOTE]I've never seen one of these types of suits where the prosecution gets anything [i]near[/i] the amount they go for, if anything at all. I think the number is mostly to light fires under the asses of people who let everything slide as long as they know they'll stay in the green regardless.

And they wonder why a lot of people hate cops.

[QUOTE=Pennywise;39421855]I've never seen one of these types of suits where the prosecution gets anything [i]near[/i] the amount they go for, if anything at all. I think the number is mostly to light fires under the asses of people who let everything slide as long as they know they'll stay in the green regardless.[/QUOTE] Oh, they won't get that i know. It's a large number to scare them to go for a smaller more reasonable settlement. But 250 million defies "pulling a number out your ass" levels.

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;39421558]Why, at no point, did any cops think this was a bad idea?[/QUOTE] Probably because "hey lets go steal someone's kid and interrogate him for 10 hours" sounds pretty funny.

[QUOTE=Pennywise;39421855]I've never seen one of these types of suits where the prosecution gets anything [i]near[/i] the amount they go for, if anything at all. I think the number is mostly to light fires under the asses of people who let everything slide as long as they know they'll stay in the green regardless.[/QUOTE] I hate how suing people is a game with strategies. Sue everyone, that way you're more likely to win! Sue for [I]laughable[/I] sums of money- you won't get it, but you'll piss someone off!

Seth Acevedo, the boy Wilson was accused of punching and robbing, had been pushed around before by Wilson and other kids, his father Santiago Acevedo said. “There were always teasing him because of his weight. Sometimes he didn’t even want to go to school because of it,” Santiago Acevedo, 63, told The Post today. sounds to me like the kid they arrested was just a bully and the cops probably wanted to teach him a lesson. not that that justifies this kind of behaviour.

That lawsuit isn't going to happen.

How does youth prosecution work in the US? In New Zealand, the parents are held accountable for anything that you do until you hit 18.

[QUOTE=Maloof?;39422191]How does youth prosecution work in the US? In New Zealand, the parents are held accountable for anything that you do until you hit 18.[/QUOTE] that's not true, parents are held accountable for kids skipping school and shit like that, otherwise that 14yo dude that murked the pizza mans parents would've gotten fucked over hard

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;39421622]Lol they want a quarter of a billion dollars[/QUOTE] No. In a lawsuit, and any claim, you always over-ask. The judge will later adjust the amount to what they see fit.

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;39422210]that's not true, parents are held accountable for kids skipping school and shit like that, otherwise that 14yo dude that murked the pizza mans parents would've gotten fucked over hard[/QUOTE] oh I forgot about that business my bad

[QUOTE=Maloof?;39422230]oh I forgot about that business my bad[/QUOTE] i think there IS a law against police interrogating under 18s (might be under 16s) without a parent or other guardian present though