This story just blows me away.  I generally try to stay clear of ‘current events’, esp. of a potentially political nature, but the idiocy of this is just too incredible.

If the kid’s dirt bike was illegal, why didn’t they take it up with the owner/his parents?  A seven-year old didn’t procure a dirt bike on his own, after all.  I just can’t believe they hauled him off to the station like that.  You don’t take a child under arrest for anything less than a felony, in my opinion, and even there you’d best have very good evidence to back it up.

I’m just grateful I wasn’t there.  I don’t know if I could have contained myself, had it been my child, and then I’d be fighting charges of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, at the least.

Unless something truly unlikely is added to this case and sheds some miraculous new light on the situation, I hope they sack every officer involved.  I know I wouldn’t rest ’til they’d been fired, apologized, and the whole town had taken a shaking.

Arrgg!