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Stupid Arrest of the Week: 7 Year Old Handcuffed, Arrested for Riding Dirt Bike

By Jeralyn, Section Juvenile Offenders
Posted on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 12:10:58 PM EST
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Simply outrageous:

Police arrested a 7-year-old boy, handcuffed him and took his mug shot and fingerprints on a charge of riding a motorized dirt bike on a sidewalk.

At the station, Gerard Mungo Jr. was handcuffed to a bench and interrogated before being released to his parents. "They scared me," Gerard told The Baltimore Examiner before breaking down in tears.

Mayor Sheila Dixon plans on "looking into the case."

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    Stupid Arrest of the Week: 7 Year Old Handcuffed, Arrested for Riding Dirt Bike | 14 comments (14 topical)

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    That article is a keeper. (1.00 / 1) (#3)
    by bx58 on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 04:28:05 PM EST
    From the course  "writing like you're pretending not to be a leftie hack 101."

    The lakasia to Takisia correction was just the icing on the cake.

    It's sick..... (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 02:31:22 PM EST
    but this is the type of society we seem to want to live in....a law and order police state with zero tolerance.

    The first sign on non-compliance, out come the chains. Even if you're only 7.

    Welcome to the new America kid...it ain't what it used to be.  All the things we got a slap on the wrist or warnings for as kids...these days you get processed.  

    I think we're all going crazy.

    7 year old arrestee (none / 0) (#2)
    by Lora on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 04:13:39 PM EST
    What a way to win the hearts and minds of American children.

    wow (none / 0) (#4)
    by zaitztheunconvicted on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 04:28:22 PM EST
    well, just how dangerous could a 7-year-old be?

    Very, very, very!  Wouldn't want him to chew some of the cushion of the back seat of the patrol car, I guess, while riding to the station

    he was (none / 0) (#5)
    by Jen M on Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 04:50:12 PM EST
    interrogated?

    about WHAT????

    without a parent present?

    I bet he'll have a deep "respect" for police officers from now on.

    A dirtbike? (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Sat Mar 17, 2007 at 12:54:41 AM EST
    I'd really like to see the hog this tot was piloting.  Who remembers mini-bikes with the lawnmower engines?

    A kid on my block had one.... (none / 0) (#7)
    by kdog on Sat Mar 17, 2007 at 08:58:20 AM EST
    and...gasp...rode it on the sidewalk on occasion.  I'm amazed the social order of my neighborhood survived the lack of his being arrested and interrogated.

    Kinder, gentler days I guess....can we pinpoint exactly when we flipped our lid as a society and got so damn sadistic and vindictive?

    On the brightside for the boy...better to learn at a very young age that the police are not your friends.  It's a valuable life-lesson.

    Parent

    Today they created a Democrat (none / 0) (#8)
    by baba durag on Sat Mar 17, 2007 at 02:54:14 PM EST
    This is one kid who is learning early what the dark underbelly of right-wing legal mentality looks like.  As the saying goes: 'right turns left the first time they fall victim to their own policies'.

    Don't be so sure baba.... (none / 0) (#9)
    by kdog on Sun Mar 18, 2007 at 08:16:46 AM EST
    I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the "riding your dirtbike on the sidewalk is punishable by arrest" law was a Democrat's idea.

    Dems love the chain and cage treatment too.  See Bill Clinton.

    Parent

    Oh, it be sure (none / 0) (#10)
    by baba durag on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 01:59:34 PM EST
    The first time a rightie falls afoul of his own laws he turns left.

    You speak of authoritarianism - a human flaw on both right and left.  But thanks anyway for the knee jerk Clinton bash.

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    Knee Jerk?..... (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 02:09:15 PM EST
    Wasn't it Clinton's idea to put all those extra cops on the street during his term?  "Tough on crime" and all that jazz.  It stands to reason that if you put more cops on the street, they will do what they were hired to do...make you comply by threat of chains and a cage.  Even if you're only 7.  

    Mandatory helmet laws....thank a Dem.  Anti-smoking laws...thank a Dem.  Will those who go afoul of those laws turn right?

    Freedom doesn't have any friends in the 2-party system, my friend.

    Parent

    Wow (none / 0) (#12)
    by baba durag on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 02:52:19 PM EST
    It's still Clinton's fault after all these years.  That was one powerful President.

    Parent
    Sorry to disparage your hero... (none / 0) (#13)
    by kdog on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 02:57:19 PM EST
    but it's true, things on the freedom front got worse under Clinton and even worse under Bush.

    I'm waiting for a leader to buck this status quo....I couldn't care less what letter he/she puts after his/her name.  

    I think freedom needs all the friends she can get right now brother...its no time for partisan blinders.

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    So? (none / 0) (#14)
    by Dreika on Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 05:04:28 AM EST
    Who cares? The kid was probably a horrible bratty bully that needed to be set straight anyway. It wasn't the bike incident that prompted the arrest..it was just the catalyst needed to finally do it. I hate when people act like kids are ALWAYS innocent and could never do wrong. Please, anyone who thinks that never was bullied or picked on so bad it stuck with them throughout their lives. No sympathy for this brat, anyone who disagrees with me is wrong.

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