Newark Police Pull Shotguns On Ten Year Old
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 4 months ago
News from the great Northeast:
A New Jersey mother is demanding answers from the Newark Police Department after her 10-year-old son was chased by police with shotguns.
Patisha Solomon says her son, Legend Preston, was playing basketball outside their home when Newark PD officers mistook him for a 20-year-old armed robbery suspect.
Police approached Legend with guns drawn. At that point, Legend says, out of fear, he ran into an alleyway.
“I ran because they thought that I rolled the ball into the street on purpose, and they were just holding shot guns at me trying to shoot me,” Legend told ABC New York.
Neighbors who saw the commotion, quickly yelled for the police to stop — one neighbor reportedly “threw themselves in front of the guns to protect” Legend.
“He’s only 10 years old, how you all chasing him? He’s only a kid,” Jackie Kelly, a neighbor of the Solomon family told ABC News.
Goobers with guns. It’s what they do, ma’am. They’re dangerous to everything and everyone around them, including themselves. You know, it might have been easier and more efficient if they had walked up to the kid and talked to the him.
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