State Privacy Rights Top 10 Lists 2nd Amendment RSS Chicago Police Charge Child with Being a Child in Winter By Jaye Ryan on February 26, 2014 Subscribe to Jaye Ryans Feed@wordsmithworker Photo credit to reproductive-fitness When can a child not be allowed to enjoy a snowball fight in an open-air area during winter? Apparently, in Chicago, for it was there that police charged a 13-year-old boy with felonious snowball-throwing, called in paperwork “aggravated battery against a police officer.” The officer in question inquired of the principal of the school on whose property the alleged felony occurred and was told what student threw the fluffy projectile “weapon.” The boy, however, states his misaligned snowball hit the police car, not the officer who claimed the frozen puff hit him — while inside the squad car. The boy’s parents were deeply shaken when contacted by police. The kid’s mother stated: “He kept trying to tell the officer that he didn’t do it, but they didn’t believe him. He was standing on the corner; there was a whole crowd of kids. It’s so crazy.” She further said that the officer told her that her child “threw a snowball at the car, and the officer was in the car.” Dean Lenard Robertson of the possible felon’s school reportedly issued a five-day suspension to the child for “youthful indiscretion,” …in other words, for a kid being a kid. In a closing personal note, I had one heck of an eye and arm when I was a child, but even I missed my target once in a while. Who’s to say in these proceedings to date that the boy intended to hit the squad car? And just where was this dean positioned that he not only had a clear line-of-sight from his location to the child and to the child’s intended target? And, oh, lest we forget, even the best professional baseball pitcher or the highest-paid pro football quarterback misses the strike zone or the wide receiver once in a while. As much as these pro athletes get paid, shouldn’t that, too, be a felony if Chitown’s cop logic prevails? To the young boy involved, good luck, son.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:02:56 +0000
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