WHAT??

7 Year-Old Boy Handcuffed for $5 'Robbery'

By Alison Silveira
     Paralegal, Racial Justice Program, ACLU

   

Five dollars is apparently all it takes to land a 7-year-old in handcuffs in a New York City public school these days.

Parents across New York City awoke Wednesday morning to the news that Bronx third-grader Wilson Reyes was pulled out of class, handcuffed and interrogated over the course of 10 hours at his elementary school, and later, at a local precinct.

Is Reyes gonna have a record?  

Will he be taught how to deal drugs with his new class mates?

Have we lost our friggen common sense? 

All manner of sense?

Reyes was charged with robbery after someone said he grabbed $5 that a classmate had dropped on the floor, causing a scuffle among several boys.

That’s hearsay! Interrogate the witnesses!

What happened to detention??

Whatever happened to sitting in a corner facing the wall, with a dunce cap on your head?? 

Remember?

And a loaded gun sticking out of a back pocket.
(Okay, I made that up.)