13 year old charge with felony...

CaliFFL

...aggravated battery against a police officer for a snowball.

I guess he's lucky the cop didn't shoot him. It is Chicago.



http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140221/south-austin/snowball-thrown-at-cop-leads-felony-for-boy-13-outrage-from-residents

Razorbacker

I've read the link a few times now and I think there's more to this story than is in the article.
But taking things at face value it's a ridiculous over charge.
A black kid born in Chicago is statistically doomed. Poverty, Prison, or worse.But over a snowball??

CaliFFL

Razorbacker wrote: »

I've read the link a few times now and I think there's more to this story than is in the article.

I'm having a harder time believing cops anymore. Especially urban cops.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/22/new-jersey-man-escapes-5-year-sentence-after-dash-cam-footage-clears-him-indicts-cops/

Slanteyedshootist

Ray Fields, "Snowballs are bad, mmmkay?"

Big Chief

Sorry LEOs, I gotta ask...........................


Did it dislodge the doughnut outta the cops hand :tooth:

It does seem absurd, on the face of it from what we know, anyhow.

tennmike

Back when I was in high school there were a couple of city cops that directed traffic when school let out for the day to get the buses out of the driveway at the school. One day my senior year it started snowing and school let out early. Had a few inches of snow on the ground by then. I was on the second wave of buses so I had to wait a while. A bunch of my friends and I were at the snack shop across the street and a snowball fight broke out. The first wave of buses had left and they were waiting for the second wave to show up.

One of the guys threw a snowball at the closest cop and hit him in the back. He turned to see where it came from, and he and his partner lost no time making snowballs and throwing them at us. We had a good 10-15 minutes of fun, and then the buses showed up. Those two cops were laughing just as hard as us as we crossed the street to get on our buses. Still don't know who had the most fun, or who won the snowball fight.

Times sure have changed since then.

MississippiBoy

tennmike wrote: »

Back when I was in high school there were a couple of city cops that directed traffic when school let out for the day to get the buses out of the driveway at the school. One day my senior year it started snowing and school let out early. Had a few inches of snow on the ground by then. I was on the second wave of buses so I had to wait a while. A bunch of my friends and I were at the snack shop across the street and a snowball fight broke out. The first wave of buses had left and they were waiting for the second wave to show up.

One of the guys threw a snowball at the closest cop and hit him in the back. He turned to see where it came from, and he and his partner lost no time making snowballs and throwing them at us. We had a good 10-15 minutes of fun, and then the buses showed up. Those two cops were laughing just as hard as us as we crossed the street to get on our buses. Still don't know who had the most fun, or who won the snowball fight.

Times sure have changed since then.

This was pretty much the first thing I thought of when I read that article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAcFWdQymPQ

He should've made his own snowball and thrown it right back at him, instead of arresting him....

horselips

If the boy was throwing rocks, I'd say, "Book him, Danno." Rocks can cause serious injury, even kill. But snowballs? But then, look at it from the cop's point of view. An arrest takes him off the mean streets for a time. It's cold outside, but he'll be safe and warm doing the obligatory paperwork. He might even get overtime pay when this case goes to court. There's a lot in this for the cop.