From The Post's Editorial Board: A 9-year-old boy was chased and handcuffed for leaning on a car in D.C. He deserves an apology.
By Editorial Board April 28 at 6:28 PM A 9-YEAR-OLD boy was leaning against a car in Northwest Washington when a D.C. police officer told him to leave. The boy mouthed off to the officer. He shouldn’t have. But what followed — the clearly terrified young boy chased by police and wrestled into handcuffs — was an outrageous overreaction, an abuse of police power that feeds community mistrust. Someone needs to say “this was wrong” and “we are sorry.
“My son was not a threat. He was not committing a crime. He was not harming anyone. It should have never been to that,” the boy’s mother told Fox 5 DC. The boy is black and the officer white, raising inevitable questions about the officer’s mind-set.
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