A 12 year old boy was arrested, handcuffed, and informed he was going to be charged with battery and robbery for allegedly stealing a bike. The problem was the officer was dead wrong, and the child’s Mother wants to know what led to the suspicion and the arrest in the first place.
The boy is black. The police were led to approach the boy by unidentified kids who identified him as the assailant. The cops surrounded the boy and pulled him off the bike, leading him away from the crowd that had already gathered, wondering why this boy was being held for riding his own bike in the first place.
The answers the cops gave were not sufficient.
In the video, there are multiple police cars present. Multiple officers of multiple races and genders are arresting the boy, handcuffing him, and allegedly informing him he will be charged with battery and assault based on eyewitness testimony alone.
The questions are many, starting with why so many officers were involved in the arrest of a child for stealing a bike and punching a kid. The next question is why did these police not do a basic investigation before jumping to arresting a boy based on eyewitness testimony alone. The last question is whether this boy would have been arrested if everyone involved in this situation was white.
Black Youth Handcuffed for Stealing Own Bike
From www.rawstory.com
2022-03-03 15:27:21
Sky Palma
Excerpt:
A Florida mother wants to know why her son was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car last month.
Jamir Bradford, who is 12-year-old and Black, was accused of a stealing a bike and questioned by police, who put him in handcuffs. “He was arrested, handcuffed and charged with robbery and battery for riding his own bicycle,” Bradford’s mother Melani Brown said according to WESH 2. “He said ‘Mommy, when I seen the officer with his hand on his gun, I wanted to run.’ I said, ‘For what? You did nothing wrong.”
After police determined that Bradford was riding his own bike, he was released.
