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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.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/30/nypd-cops-handcuff-and-interrogate-boy-7-over-missing-5-family-claims/?test=latestnews#ixzz2JT6yheZX

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GreenHorns said:

in an area with historically bad crime i dont see an issue with the principal of the situation. kids are fucking rotten these days and parents dont teach for shit. it sucks that this happened to an innocent kid and that it took 10 hours to find this out, but i agree in taking less and less shit from rotten kids. $5 today can easily snowball over the next 11 years till the kid becomes an adult then what? im in favor of change myself.

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JoieDeVivre said:

GreenHorns said:

in an area with historically bad crime i dont see an issue with the principal of the situation. kids are fucking rotten these days and parents dont teach for shit. it sucks that this happened to an innocent kid and that it took 10 hours to find this out, but i agree in taking less and less shit from rotten kids. $5 today can easily snowball over the next 11 years till the kid becomes an adult then what? im in favor of change myself.

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You agree with arresting seven year olds and harassing them for hours over $5? Kids these days are no more fucking rotten than kids have always been, every generation says the one below them is worse because they do things differently. In reality kids used to be a lot worse to each other and it was not only accepted but often encouraged by parents when bullying was much more prevalent.

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JoieDeVivre said:

GreenHorns said:

in an area with historically bad crime i dont see an issue with the principal of the situation. kids are fucking rotten these days and parents dont teach for shit. it sucks that this happened to an innocent kid and that it took 10 hours to find this out, but i agree in taking less and less shit from rotten kids. $5 today can easily snowball over the next 11 years till the kid becomes an adult then what? im in favor of change myself.

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You agree with arresting seven year olds and harassing them for hours over $5? Kids these days are no more fucking rotten than kids have always been, every generation says the one below them is worse because they do things differently. In reality kids used to be a lot worse to each other and it was not only accepted but often encouraged by parents when bullying was much more prevalent.

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JoieDeVivre said:

It's not a crime, it's a schoolyard dispute that in most schools would be handled by the administration. More severe acts of bullying happen every single day where people are actually injured and psychologically damaged and the police never get involved. All of the sudden when there's money involved it's important though.

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I'm pretty sure the money was reimbursed if the police were involved and they now know which child stole the money. It wasn't exactly stealing either, these are young children. A bill fell in front of one of them and they picked it up, it's not like they were maliciously planning a break-in or collaborating with their gang.

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akira_akuma said:

so... much... right... cannot... understand... the willingness... to disagree... why? this article and event is so... ASSBACKWARDS... i dunno, how... anyone... cannot see... that this story, is fucked beyond all believe... and that it is STUPID, what happened...

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Prisoner#1 said:

you clearly dont read the news very often... or maybe you just like to talk out of your ass

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You clearly aren't in every school in America where bullying is pushed under the rug. I didn't say that no bullying is ever dealt with by police, I'm saying it happens multiple times every day at many, if not all, schools and most of the time it's not treated as seriously as when someone's material goods are taken, which is sad.

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theft is theft

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The_Aviator said:

akira_akuma said:

so... much... right... cannot... understand... the willingness... to disagree... why? this article and event is so... ASSBACKWARDS... i dunno, how... anyone... cannot see... that this story, is fucked beyond all believe... and that it is STUPID, what happened...

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You can't have a Shroomery thread without disagreements. I could post a thread about 1+1=2 and there'd be at least two or three people trying to argue it. To reveal the liberal/conservative agenda of course.

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*sigh* as always!

JoieDeVivre said:

It's not a crime, it's a schoolyard dispute that in most schools would be handled by the administration. More severe acts of bullying happen every single day where people are actually injured and psychologically damaged and the police never get involved. All of the sudden when there's money involved it's important though.

I'm pretty sure the money was reimbursed if the police were involved and they now know which child stole the money. It wasn't exactly stealing either, these are young children. A bill fell in front of one of them and they picked it up, it's not like they were maliciously planning a break-in or collaborating with their gang.

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JoieDeVivre said:

Prisoner#1 said:

you clearly dont read the news very often... or maybe you just like to talk out of your ass

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You clearly aren't in every school in America where bullying is pushed under the rug. I didn't say that no bullying is ever dealt with by police, I'm saying it happens multiple times every day at many, if not all, schools and most of the time it's not treated as seriously as when someone's material goods are taken, which is sad.

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Is it theft if a cat picks up a $5 and walks away with it?

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Prisoner#1 said:

when we have liberals making excuses as opposed to teaching their kids about
these important values

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JoieDeVivre said:

So if you found any amount of money on the ground at the age of seven you would know to seek out the owner and turn it in?

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Most people wont even do that as an adult and you expect a little kid whose brain isn't even fully developed to know right from wrong on their own?

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