13-year-old boy charged with felony for throwing snowball at Chicago cop
No wonder cops are disrespected. Whatever possessed the police to charge the snowball throwing kid with aggravated battery to a peace officer, a felony, is beyond my comprehension.
In a New York case four years ago, the city has since shelled out $60,000 each to five teens arrested for throwing snowballs at a cop. In that case the cop even pulled his gun on the snowball throwers.
CHICAGO BOY CHARGED WITH A FELONY FOR THROWING SNOWBALL AT COP, SAYS HE DIDN’T DO IT
The unnamed 13-year-old never had a snowball's chance; he says someone else threw the ball of snow at the policeman from within a group of 15 students, but his school dean and security guard identified him as the culprit
By Sasha Goldstein
New York Daily News
February 20, 2014
A 13-year-old boy is accused of chucking a snowball at a Chicago police officer - who immediately hit back with a felony charge against the teen.
The unnamed 8th grader says he wasn't even the student who tossed the chunk of ice around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, earning the boy a charge of aggravated battery to a peace officer.
"It made me mad," the teen told the Chicago Tribune. "He [the officer]said the snowball hit him but it hit the car, not him."
The officer, on the other hand, said the ball of snow hit his arm after it was lobbed out from within a group of about 15 kids playing a half-block from their school.
The school's dean, Lenard Robertson, and a security guard standing nearby apparently saw the throw and blamed the boy.
"He kept trying to tell the officer that he didn't do it but they didn't believe him," the boy's mother told the Tribune. "He was standing on the corner, there was a whole crowd of kids. It's so crazy."
The boy, who isn't a gang member and has never been in trouble with the law, is also suspended from school for five days.
"I have absolutely no comment," Robertson, the school's dean, told the Tribune when the newspaper contacted him for comment.
The boy is scheduled to appear in juvenile court next month.
"It's sad, he's only 13. I'm so upset, he's never been in trouble before," his mom told the newspaper. "It's his first case."
In New York, the city shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars to five teens who were arrested for throwing a snowball at a cop in February 2010.
The cop pulled his gun on the boys, who were originally charged with a crime.
Those charges were later dropped and the five sued for $10 million - settling for $60,000 each earlier this month.
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