January 30, 2013<\/span><\/em> \u00a0| \u00a0<\/p>\n Like this article?<\/p>\n Join our email list:<\/p>\n Bronx police arrested a seven-year-old boy, put him in handcuffs and held him in custody for ten hours after a playground fight over $5, according to a $250 million claim brought by the child\u2019s family against the city and the NYPD. Officers allegedly arrived at the Bronx public school on Dec. 4 in the morning and handcuffed and held\u00a0Wilson Reyes in a room there for four hours before taking him to the station house for another six hours of interrogation and verbal abuse, the suit alleges.<\/p>\n The New York Post reports<\/a>\u00a0that Reyes\u2019 mother found him at the police precinct, \u201cpanicked\u201d and \u201cseated in a shabby chair with his left wrist cuffed to the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n The incident apparently began when Reyes\u2019 was falsely accused by another child of stealing $5, provoking a scuffle. Children seven to 17-years-old can be tried as juveniles and Reyes originally faced a robbery charge before another child admitted to taking the money and charges against the seven-year-old were dropped. But Reyes\u2019 family a seeking damages.<\/p>\n \u201cI never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We\u2019re traumatized,\u201d his mother, Frances Mendez told The New York Post. \u201cIt\u2019s unfathomable, what the police did. The whole thing sounds so stupid. They were interrogating him like he was a hardened criminal,\u201d said Mendez\u2019s attorney, Jack Yanowitz.<\/p>\n The city has responded to the claims saying Mendez\u2019s account is \u201cgrossly untrue\u201d and that \u201cthe child was held in the precinct\u2026 less than half of the time mentioned\u201d \u2013 which still means a seven-year-old was held for well over four hours over by police.<\/p>\n The family of the boy, who was held by cops for hours, is suing the police and the city.<\/p>\n January 30, 2013<\/span><\/em> | <\/p>\n Like this article?<\/p>\n Join our email list:<\/p>\n Bronx police arrested a seven-year-old boy, put him in handcuffs and held him in custody for ten hours after a playground fight over $5, according to a $250 million claim brought by the child’s family against the city and the NYPD. Officers allegedly arrived at the Bronx public school on Dec. 4 in the morning and handcuffed and held Wilson Reyes in a room there for four hours before taking him to the station house for another six hours of interrogation and verbal abuse, the suit alleges.<\/p>\nStay up to date with the latest headlines via email.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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