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The family of a 7-year-old New York boy is suing police and the city for $250 million, saying cops handcuffed and interrogated the boy for ten hours after a scuffle over lunch money at school.
Wilson Reyes, a student at Public School 114 in the Bronx reportedly got into a fight with a fellow student in December after he was accused of taking $5 of lunch money that had fallen on the ground in front of him. Responding to a complaint of assault and robbery, the police were called and took the boy to the local police precinct where officers allegedly handcuffed and interrogated him for ten hours, according to the lawsuit.
"Imagine how I felt seeing my son in handcuffs," Wilson's mother, Frances Mendez, told the New York Post. "It was horrible. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," she said.
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The purported victim of a tiny Bronx thug wishes the NYPD kept his 7-year-old tormentor permanently handcuffed.
Elementary schooler Seth Acevedo told the Daily News that he only felt safe from Wilson Reyes after the cruel third-grader was busted last month for beating and robbing him.
“Wilson was the worst bully,” said Seth, 9, in an interview Wednesday with the Daily News. “He would call me names. He would punch and kick me. I wish they never took the cuffs off of him.”
A lawyer for the Reyes family is considering a $250 million lawsuit against the city and the NYPD, claiming the boy was wrongfully handcuffed and held for six hours inside the 44th Precinct stationhouse.
But Seth and his mom unmasked Wilson as a serial bully — and said the arresting officers did the right thing by slapping restraints on their small suspect.
“I would have handcuffed him, too,” snapped the boy’s mother, Janet Ramos.
The 4-foot-7, 75-pound Wilson slugged Seth in the face and robbed him of $5 as he walked home after school on Nov. 30, the victim recounted.
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It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.