NYC boy, 7, handcuffed, interrogated over $5, family says
A 7-year-old Bronx boy's family says he was handcuffed after being falsely accused of stealing $5 from another student after school. Frances Mendez told the New York Post Wilson Reyes was "interrogated" by police for 10 hours on Dec. 4. Family attorney Jack Yankowitz filed a $250 million claim against the city and the NYPD.
Family attorney Jack Yankowitz filed a $250 million claim against the city and the NYPD.
Bronx boy Wilson Reyes, 7, cuffed for hours in police precinct after swiping another kid's money
Frances Mendez, the mother of the pint-sized “perp,” is threatening to sue the NYPD for $250 million — saying cops treated her son like a hardened criminal. The lawyer is calling the allegations against the 7-year-old false and says he has filed a notice of claim against the NYPD, the city and the South Bronx precinct. “How would you feel if (the boy) was your child or your grandchild?” lawyer Jack Yankowitz said in a press release. “What happened is a travesty of justice. “If (this) 7-year-old and his mother lived on 64th and Park and he attended a $35,000-a-year private school, do you think (he) would have been arrested, handcuffed to a wall and denied access to his mother and legal counsel for 10 hours?”
Bronx boy Wilson Reyes, 7, cuffed for hours in police precinct after swiping another kid's money