Robbery or Foolishness

     "I never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We're traumatized. Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs. It was horrible. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," said by Wilson Mendez mother, when she found out her son was arrested for 5 dollars. Her son was accused of stealing then fighting for money. However, these allegations were false; her son did not do anything to deserve any of the wrongdoings that came about. The NYPD interogated Mendez for ten hours after they charged him for robbery. The NYPD claimed "If we didn't handcuff him and he ran out the front door, then we would have had an escaped prisoner on our hands." For a seven year old, really? What could a seven year old do to the police? They treated this young boy like he was a "hardened criminal." "He  was handcuffed and verbally, physically and emotionally abused, intimidated, humiliated, embarrassed and defamed," said the suit. Wilson cried out to his mother,  'Mommy, it wasn't me! Mommy, it wasn't me!'"  This young boy had to prove his innocence to his mother. An experience like this traumatized this boy tremendously to the point that his mother sued NYPD for 250 million dollars. Was this overboaard or sensible? This all cME bAfter all of this unneccesary drama the city's law department ended up dropping the robbery charge against Wilson and and court documents said another classmate later admitted to the theft.