7-Year-Old Dirt Biker Arrested
2007-03-16 23:24

Posted by phrawgh

Baltimore's mayor says she plans to look into the arrest of 7-year-old boy.
Police say Gerard Mungo was riding a motorized dirt bike on a city sidewalk.
The boy's mother says he was sitting on the bike with the motor off, when an officer grabbed him by the collar and pulled him off it.
Police eventually confiscated the bike, arrested the boy and took him to the police station.
There, he was handcuffed to a bench and interrogated before being released to his parents.
The incident is generating more criticism of a department already under fire for what critics call unnecessary arrests.
The police commissioner says the city has had problems with dirt bikes, but calls the arrest inconsistent with his view of neighborhood problem solving.
Mayor Sheila Dixon says "as a parent," she's "bothered by it."