A ten year old should not be walking out alone. If we had to be somewhere else before our kids got in from school; my kids were told plainly to not leave the house and the doors to remain locked until we got there. My children had a key to get in the house if their dad and I weren’t back in time. And we definitely did not let allow our children to walk alone.
@@kelleygreengrass Any Gen X'er would probably answer you by saying "SO???..." At 10 years old I was gone all day, back for dinner. And this was in a far larger and more dangerous city, at a time when multiple serial killers roamed about the pacific northwest. My... what pathetically coddled creatures we've become in a short 40 years. smh
@@kelleygreengrassnot knowing exactly where your kid is 24/7 is a crime? this is the new america - the mistrust of people you don’t know - assuming those you don’t know are evil instead of assuming they are good and competent. the election showed a lot assume other americans are bad people.
@@kelleygreengrassHi! hi! hi! I'm 75. My kids are now nearly 44 and 42. We live in a semi-rural area. After the age of 5, my kids had free rein of our street and the neighbourhood of about 100 houses. My daughter was the adventurous one and had a bike! she might be anywhere and I'd never know. I admit that I was happy when my son learned to bike, too, and accompanied her because there is safety in numbers, right? Why would someone call the police when they saw a 10 year old walking along the road into town? I remember my daughter and my son asked to go to the playground a short walk away one time. I said, "Yes!" On the way there, my daughter got into the adventurous spirit and decided to hitchhike. Very quickly, a passing motorist phoned the police. A police car brought the 2 kids home. That was it? The policeman when told where the kids lived did take the wrong route into town until my daughter told him he was going the wrong way and our street was in the opposite direction. The kids were probably standing at our corner when the police car stopped! My young son was outraged when the police asked him, "Is she your real Mom?" LOLOL! I guess he thought most moms were real and it was a stupid question. No arrest. Why didn't the policeman just tell the kids to go home or stop hitchhiking? I'm thankful we don't live in Georgia.
Wow. When I was a kid, I lived in a small town but I walked all over town. A friend lived across town and we used to walk back a forth to each others house. it was 3 miles one way. I was always outside as a kid. This is just insane to me.
As a person outside of US, I am wondering why the mom was arrested. I walk going home to school back then because public transport was still scarce and I don't have a bike. I also lived in Japan for a few months and a lot of kids there go to school, malls, theme parks by walking. The government overstepping on parenting makes the children weak.
@@Jay-is2jy He did not "wounder off" he went to the store. hes 10, look at the kid! kids here like him ride their YZ125s to the store. What is this country a prison?
This is government overreach. I completely support this woman 110 percent. This is absolutely ridiculous. And there should be consequences for that Police department pulling this b*******
Kids walking alone? So... we can be arrested for kids walking home from school? What if they want to walk to a friend's house? I used to walk or ride my bike everywhere when I was a kid. What we talking about here
Yeah! My father always rented or bought a house at the edge of town. Strangely, 3 out of the 4 of us kids also live just on the edge of our respective towns or small cities. It's great. We have a large lot. We have the woods to wander in. We can bike into town. Perfect envirnoment for raising independent children. We had a fairly long walk to school and we always did it even at the age of 5! On Saturday mornings, we had piano lessons so the 3 of us walked a long, long way to the lesson and back home. My mother probably thought the $3 was money well spent.
And this mom should NOT sign ANYTHING that is contrary to the law. They don’t get to dictate safe parenting subjectively. You don’t HAVE to put tracking devices on your kids.
We rode our bikes on a lonely country road to the nearest store for bomb pops or candy bars. No cell phone, no having to call home when we got there. Way too much parenting out of fear today which produces anxious kids.
If a parent submits to a tracking app, that will one day be submitting to a chip in the child , which will one day be the state monitoring of all our movements 24/7. “For our safety”, of course.
So the DA is saying this parent has to buy a $700 phone to keep track of their children? So now we're taxing parents? Sue the crap out of this Sheriff then run a campaign to remove the DA. It's time we take back the rights they think they get to give us.
Nonsense. I can see if the kid was a toddler, but he's 10! At 10 I was biking all over the community alone and with my friends. We could spend all day on our own as long as we checked in once in a while and were back before dark. Crime rates were just as bad back then and we did get ourselves into trouble from time to time, but we all survived somehow. You don't learn much about the world or how to be independent when you're suffocating in bubble wrap and your parents are holding your hand all the time. Let kids be kids for crying out loud. There needs to be clearer boundaries set when it comes to government interfering with the family, too. These cops are very confused.
So it’s mandatory that all 10 year olds have smartphones so that tracking apps can be downloaded to them ? And that the kids have to carry those phones at all times. This whole situation is too stupid for the police department, DAs office and the family services office to continue to exist.
I know the world is different now, but this is stupid. The kid is gonna be scared of everything now. They didn’t say how far the store was. I used to walk all over my neighborhood when I was younger then 10
Airtags. Even hunting dogs have a collar that tells the hunters where they are. However, how necessary would an airtag be? My son did get lost in our woods once. He's like his grandmother: no sense of direction. You can hear the 6-lane highway below the woods. You can hear the busy 2 lane highway that runs past our house. You can hear the even busier 2-lane highway that runs over on the other side of the woods. He had our 84 lb hound with him who was a very experienced animal and could easily find his way home. So, ask me how my son could get lost??? He and his friend and our dog did make it home just before dark! I wasn't worried about them because I figured that they had walked into town. "I'm sketchy!" my son announced to me one day. He sure is.
@Cat22275 10 is a terrible age for babysitting and it's obviously not legal there or the neglectful mother wouldn't have a court case. If you're leaving a 10 year old to babysit then you're a terrible parenting. I live in the country and I wouldn't let my 10 year old walk a mile. She was just running late and didn't know where her kid was so she abandoned him alone.
She should be praised for getting his nose out of a smartphone, and taking a walk. My whole familly would have rotten in jail, because of me, being outside.
We never had any rtracking when we were kids. Know one knew where we were all day! This is just wrong! I crossed a major hwy in 4th grade by my self to go to the library. Let the kids be kids. Teach them what to look for as being dangerous and how to avoid this. Don’t teach kids to be afraid to live life. Let that mom alone!
My parents woulda done natural life for all the times I walked to town or walked around the woods. Is this county insane? This is weird beyond belief. I gotta believe somebody in this town just doesn't like this woman or something - for whatever reason. Doesn't make any sense.
This IS BULL POO … when I was growing up, coming from a large family .. we children were all over everywhere.. only time mama ever hollered for us, WAS too come in and eat dinner, get our baths, prepare for bed GEORGIA MIND YOUR OWN DANG BUSINESS
So crazy! My daughter's counsellor, without meeting me, said I suffered from "catastrophic thinking" when she heard how type 1 diabetes is managed today. Obviously, the poor woman has no clue about how dangerous low blood glucose or high blood glucose levels can be.
I don't like the lawyer's take. He's right, but what's more important is that this is an ongoing 4th amendment violation wrought upon this lady, her kids, and her family.
The charges will disappear. It was a bad call made by a DA to try to take the case, which is why they wanted the safety plan as a get out of jail free card. The DA knew if it went to trial they were screwed.
I walked to and from school from the first grade. We even had bicycles racks for us to park our bicycle at school. PS: there is absolutely nothing that the police cant make worse!!!
WAIT...WHAT!!!!!! She's gonna get arrested for letting her kids walk alone BUT THEY'LL LET YOUR KIDS CHANGE THEIR SEX / NAME IN SCHOOLS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION!!!!!! This is BULL !!!!!💩 SUE THE LIVING HELL OUTTA THE CITY!!!!!!!
How old are her children? How far did they get from home? Were they in danger, in the street etc? What is the legal age in the state for children to be left unattended for an extended amount of time? It sounds like they just made something up and are trying to see what she’ll accept from them.
Jesus. I used to walk for miles at that age. If I avoided trouble and was home before the streetlights were on, it was all good. WTF is happening in America.
I'm so glad that my elementary school years were between 1965 and 1971. I never thought that I'd get to 65 years old and actually be grateful to be that age... even wishing I was 10 or 15 years older. It was a good life.
I was a kid in the 80's, it was great. After school I delivered my news papers then did whatever I wanted, as long as I was home for dinner when my father got home from work and then home when it was getting dark our parents didn't care.
Shoot, as a 10 year old i had more long distance miles on my schwinn then most people had on their cars. Riding 20 plus miles away from home by myself and home before the street lights came on..
I live outside my small town, but Innside town ALL the kids and I mean ALL the kids walk to and from school. there is no bussing in town. I've seen little kids like 6 years old walking to and from school. WTF is wrong with these cops? I could understand if she lived in south side Chicago or somewhere like that, but she doesn't.
I'm 75. Even in kindergarten, my brother and sister and I walked to school.. When we moved to a slightly rural area, we walked along a highway that led eventually to Montreal, the main road Eastern Ontario. My twin brother and I were in grade 8 so the walk was an easy one. My youngest sister, though, was only in grade 3. She used to cry at the long walk to school each day. I remember our neighbour also in grade 8 snapped at me one day, "Why is W. crying? B. (her younger sister) is in grade 2 and she's not crying." I guess she implied my sister was a whimp. LOLOL! That family had lived where we lived for a year so B. must have walked that long way (about 30 minutes) even in grade 1! Our parents wouldn't even have thought about driving us to school.
Some cops even bother adults walking alone in public at night or early a.m. Watched on TH-cam the other day police bodycam footage of an adult male walking on a public sidewalk at 1 am not bothering anybody and a cop parked his vehicle and approached him saying the man "looked suspicious" for walking early am. The cop ended up arresting the man for being "disorderly" for walking so early a.m. Some cops are out of control.
The only thing that bothers me is that she didn’t know he left the house. It’s ok for kids to go to the store and around the neighborhoods and town. BUT you need to know that your kid left the house. She even said she was just fed up with him and didn’t care what he did. Soooo there is more to this story
When I was three I rode a tricycle nearly half a mile to the supermarket where I was promptly recognized by our mailman, scooped up unto his truck, and delivered back to my house.
first let's look at another side just for a second. arrestable offense in this case no I don't think so, not justified. however if that 10 year old had been abducted and is missing, we would all be saying why was that child walking alone. it's just the way this world is now, you don't take a single chance. he is only 10. I understand small community, perceived safety environment. being arrested is overstepping, to say that a 10-year old isn't a vulnerable Target or opportunity for tragedy is naive.. please don't attack me this is my opinion
when I was younger, we were allowed to walk the streets of our town in New Jersey where I was born and raised, my mother didn’t work, this was back in the 60s, and 70s. Definitely government over reaching it’s ridiculous. A 10-year-old is definitely old enough to walk to the store by themselves, or with their friends. I support this mother 100%.
I was walking back and forth to school in urban southern CA by age 6 in the 1970s. This is completely ridiculous. Sounds like this town needs a law enforcement overhaul.
This ignorant excuse for an out of shape young cop should be removed from her job due to her inability to think rationally and make decisions based on sound judgement.
The police traumatized the children by handcuffing their mom in front of them and other behaviors -- truly reckless and irresponsible behavior on their part. I hope she can sue them for reckless endangerment of children.
If the town isn't safe enough for a child to walk then that's on the cops not the mom. Make the town safer, it's your job as law enforcement.
Government overreach has gone to far
This is crazy as hell.
Absolutely, this is just absurd
I'm a mom of five sons three daughters I live in a small and yes I let mine walk to town to the store!!! Stand strong mom!
good. Children deserve to get to be real people.
Yeah so what do you do when the kids get abducted😮oh tax payers .Play it safe y'all nowadays😮
What is wrong with you having 8 kids?
@sandraosborn171 Don't be stupid!
A ten year old should not be walking out alone. If we had to be somewhere else before our kids got in from school; my kids were told plainly to not leave the house and the doors to remain locked until we got there. My children had a key to get in the house if their dad and I weren’t back in time. And we definitely did not let allow our children to walk alone.
Smells like a lawsuit.
I was tough things like this depends on the child. I think the prosecuter here should never be left alone as he is very low IQ.
I stand with the mom. The idea of arresting her is a pile of road apples.
She literally had no clue where her child was.
@@kelleygreengrass That's not true. He was within the boundaries set by her and had permission to walk around. Pay attention to your own kids!
@@kelleygreengrass Any Gen X'er would probably answer you by saying "SO???..." At 10 years old I was gone all day, back for dinner. And this was in a far larger and more dangerous city, at a time when multiple serial killers roamed about the pacific northwest. My... what pathetically coddled creatures we've become in a short 40 years. smh
@@kelleygreengrassnot knowing exactly where your kid is 24/7 is a crime?
this is the new america - the mistrust of people you don’t know - assuming those you don’t know are evil instead of assuming they are good and competent.
the election showed a lot assume other
americans are bad people.
@@kelleygreengrassHi! hi! hi! I'm 75. My kids are now nearly 44 and 42. We live in a semi-rural area. After the age of 5, my kids had free rein of our street and the neighbourhood of about 100 houses. My daughter was the adventurous one and had a bike! she might be anywhere and I'd never know. I admit that I was happy when my son learned to bike, too, and accompanied her because there is safety in numbers, right? Why would someone call the police when they saw a 10 year old walking along the road into town? I remember my daughter and my son asked to go to the playground a short walk away one time. I said, "Yes!" On the way there, my daughter got into the adventurous spirit and decided to hitchhike. Very quickly, a passing motorist phoned the police. A police car brought the 2 kids home. That was it? The policeman when told where the kids lived did take the wrong route into town until my daughter told him he was going the wrong way and our street was in the opposite direction. The kids were probably standing at our corner when the police car stopped! My young son was outraged when the police asked him, "Is she your real Mom?" LOLOL! I guess he thought most moms were real and it was a stupid question. No arrest. Why didn't the policeman just tell the kids to go home or stop hitchhiking? I'm thankful we don't live in Georgia.
Wow. When I was a kid, I lived in a small town but I walked all over town. A friend lived across town and we used to walk back a forth to each others house. it was 3 miles one way. I was always outside as a kid. This is just insane to me.
As a person outside of US, I am wondering why the mom was arrested. I walk going home to school back then because public transport was still scarce and I don't have a bike. I also lived in Japan for a few months and a lot of kids there go to school, malls, theme parks by walking. The government overstepping on parenting makes the children weak.
Because she left a 10 yr old home alone and he wandered off
@@Jay-is2jy He did not "wounder off" he went to the store. hes 10, look at the kid! kids here like him ride their YZ125s to the store. What is this country a prison?
@@Jay-is2jy
Wandered off??? Ten years olds don't wander the go with a purpose!
@@eugenemorganakakeek8941 what's wounder off mean?... she wasn't even home and didn't know where he was at... bit of a difference..
This is government overreach. I completely support this woman 110 percent. This is absolutely ridiculous. And there should be consequences for that Police department pulling this b*******
Kids walking alone? So... we can be arrested for kids walking home from school? What if they want to walk to a friend's house? I used to walk or ride my bike everywhere when I was a kid. What we talking about here
Yeah! My father always rented or bought a house at the edge of town. Strangely, 3 out of the 4 of us kids also live just on the edge of our respective towns or small cities. It's great. We have a large lot. We have the woods to wander in. We can bike into town. Perfect envirnoment for raising independent children. We had a fairly long walk to school and we always did it even at the age of 5! On Saturday mornings, we had piano lessons so the 3 of us walked a long, long way to the lesson and back home. My mother probably thought the $3 was money well spent.
That’s absolutely ridiculous I hope she sues.
Another example of the government trying to get into parents business
We've got enough examples to fill a library.
The voted for that and I love to see it
To all of the people who complain about kids not playing outside anymore, this is why.
Hey, government, get the HELL out of peoples lives!!!!! 😡
yeah republicans are the worst
And this mom should NOT sign ANYTHING that is contrary to the law. They don’t get to dictate safe parenting subjectively. You don’t HAVE to put tracking devices on your kids.
False arrest and malicious prosecution. Get those cops fired and the DA disbarred.
Authoritarian Bullshit. Fight Fight Fight.
She's not alone, I don't understand either. Even two decades ago this wouldn't have been an issue.
This is totally absurd. Poor Mom. Complete nonsense!
As a 5th grader I would go many MILES from home. I don't get this?
Maybe, the mother is viewed with suspicion for some reason. Does she do something weird like homeschool or read to her kids or what?
We rode our bikes on a lonely country road to the nearest store for bomb pops or candy bars. No cell phone, no having to call home when we got there. Way too much parenting out of fear today which produces anxious kids.
@@dinkster1729
LOL
Kids younger than that walk a mile to school around here. The local school buses are only for kids that live more than a mile away from the school
Back in the 70's and 80's every parent would've arrested😂 so ridiculous!
Even right now. Lol kids who should walk home after school go play all the time.😅 this cop fam is definitely smelling his own farts.
My mom left me in the car as a baby with my 5 year old sister in charge 😂 all the time, she didn’t want to ever take us in the store. This was normal.
Yes, and long before the 70s and 80s.
...and the '90s!
We support you, Brittany! BIG BROTHER has no pace in your business. Keep fighting!
Maybe arrest solo males out driving around, who “might” be a predator. Makes as much sense as arresting this woman
Lol the cop is just like you but male. 😅
😂💯
Dont put ideas in their minds
If a parent submits to a tracking app, that will one day be submitting to a chip in the child , which will one day be the state monitoring of all our movements 24/7. “For our safety”, of course.
Why do that when we carry one around in our pockets, completely voluntarily?
Ok. Where in the law does it say a 10 year old can't walk to the store.
So the DA is saying this parent has to buy a $700 phone to keep track of their children? So now we're taxing parents? Sue the crap out of this Sheriff then run a campaign to remove the DA. It's time we take back the rights they think they get to give us.
Nonsense. I can see if the kid was a toddler, but he's 10! At 10 I was biking all over the community alone and with my friends. We could spend all day on our own as long as we checked in once in a while and were back before dark. Crime rates were just as bad back then and we did get ourselves into trouble from time to time, but we all survived somehow. You don't learn much about the world or how to be independent when you're suffocating in bubble wrap and your parents are holding your hand all the time. Let kids be kids for crying out loud. There needs to be clearer boundaries set when it comes to government interfering with the family, too. These cops are very confused.
I see Meal-Team Six showed up for the arrest!
Ok, best comment 😅
Man, this government is out of control...
Yes, but the people allow it.
So it’s mandatory that all 10 year olds have smartphones so that tracking apps can be downloaded to them ? And that the kids have to carry those phones at all times. This whole situation is too stupid for the police department, DAs office and the family services office to continue to exist.
Cats and wandering dogs wear an air tag. Do we really want to know where our kids are at all times?
Right. Absolutely asinine for this overreach.
Sue the pants off them. These over reaching goons need to be held accountable for their reckless behaviours.
I know the world is different now, but this is stupid. The kid is gonna be scared of everything now. They didn’t say how far the store was. I used to walk all over my neighborhood when I was younger then 10
I sometimes walked alone a half mile, starting in kindergarten, from home to the school bus and back until I learned to drive
Exactly.
I'm honestly shocked this happened in Forsyth County. We moved from Fulton County to Forsyth to get away from such nonsense.
GA towns are big on collecting revenue by doing bogus charges like this.
So what if you cant afford a phone for your kid....this isthe most stupid arrest heard
Airtags. Even hunting dogs have a collar that tells the hunters where they are. However, how necessary would an airtag be? My son did get lost in our woods once. He's like his grandmother: no sense of direction. You can hear the 6-lane highway below the woods. You can hear the busy 2 lane highway that runs past our house. You can hear the even busier 2-lane highway that runs over on the other side of the woods. He had our 84 lb hound with him who was a very experienced animal and could easily find his way home. So, ask me how my son could get lost??? He and his friend and our dog did make it home just before dark! I wasn't worried about them because I figured that they had walked into town. "I'm sketchy!" my son announced to me one day. He sure is.
When I was a kid I walked alone to school five miles both ways uphill in zero degree weather.
While wearing only one shoe.
Child walking alone cause strangers - bad
Dropping your child off to strangers called public school - good
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You have got to be kidding. Teachers are not strangers. Get a grip.
@ctee1117 teachers aren't the child's parents sooooo......yep raised by strangers
It aint about the kid walking to the store... she left a 10 yr old home alone and he wandered off... her parenting choices aren't safe..
Keep going! We the parents support you.
I'm a parent and I wouldn't abandon my child not knowing where he is. Maybe crappy parents support her.
@@kelleygreengrass You probably live in the city. Country life is different.
@@kelleygreengrassSo you have your kids on a leash 24/7. Absurd.
Country kids walk to town by themselves all the time where I live 😂. But, you need a 10 year old with them legally I guess. That’s the babysitter age.
@Cat22275 10 is a terrible age for babysitting and it's obviously not legal there or the neglectful mother wouldn't have a court case. If you're leaving a 10 year old to babysit then you're a terrible parenting.
I live in the country and I wouldn't let my 10 year old walk a mile. She was just running late and didn't know where her kid was so she abandoned him alone.
They know they got nothing, so they're trying to get her to agree to ridiculous conditions so they can then get her for violating those. it's a trap.
Does THIS go for everybody in Georgia OR just her & her son at that very moment ???!! .. because I’m not understanding WHERE the problem is 👀👀👀
Kids will be kids, sorry for this family being put through all this. Outrageous and Ridiculous! Haven't heard anything about any harm to the kiddo.
A SAFETY PlAN?????? Are other parents doing that?????? Yeah no
Ridiculous
Remember you are not free.
If the mom was arrested the dad should have been arrested too.
The local government is out of control. Given the public's negative reaction to this case, it's no surprise that no one will comment.
Govern me harder baby. What a utopian nightmare we've created by submitting to these fools .
dystopian*
@Bertranddeghaul I meant utopian.
The government schools have brainwashed them, Genx is the last generation with self thought.
@Cat22275 the public school system teaches hate and not much else
She should be praised for getting his nose out of a smartphone, and taking a walk. My whole familly would have rotten in jail, because of me, being outside.
Ridiculous! They're acting like he's a toddler.
We never had any rtracking when we were kids. Know one knew where we were all day! This is just wrong!
I crossed a major hwy in 4th grade by my self to go to the library.
Let the kids be kids.
Teach them what to look for as being dangerous and how to avoid this. Don’t teach kids to be afraid to live life.
Let that mom alone!
My parents woulda done natural life for all the times I walked to town or walked around the woods. Is this county insane? This is weird beyond belief. I gotta believe somebody in this town just doesn't like this woman or something - for whatever reason. Doesn't make any sense.
She maybe turned someone down.
Good job NewsNation for covering this story.
I guess the police in Georgia are not busy enough.
When I was 10 my mom would send me to the store 6 blocks away to buy her cigarettes
This IS BULL POO … when I was growing up, coming from a large family .. we children were all over everywhere.. only time mama ever hollered for us, WAS too come in and eat dinner, get our baths, prepare for bed
GEORGIA MIND YOUR OWN DANG BUSINESS
So crazy! My daughter's counsellor, without meeting me, said I suffered from "catastrophic thinking" when she heard how type 1 diabetes is managed today. Obviously, the poor woman has no clue about how dangerous low blood glucose or high blood glucose levels can be.
I don't like the lawyer's take. He's right, but what's more important is that this is an ongoing 4th amendment violation wrought upon this lady, her kids, and her family.
The charges will disappear. It was a bad call made by a DA to try to take the case, which is why they wanted the safety plan as a get out of jail free card. The DA knew if it went to trial they were screwed.
Asinine. A young man walking to the store is now a crime. Here's an idea: how about police patrolling the streets on a regular basis?????
I walked to and from school from the first grade. We even had bicycles racks for us to park our bicycle at school.
PS: there is absolutely nothing that the police cant make worse!!!
Good grief. How long ago was that? 35-50 years ago? Times have changed man.
@nr1785 I was born in 1956
Was this boy unusually small? Has the family been in trouble before? Still, the whole situation is absurd.
WAIT...WHAT!!!!!! She's gonna get arrested for letting her kids walk alone BUT THEY'LL LET YOUR KIDS CHANGE THEIR SEX / NAME IN SCHOOLS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION!!!!!! This is BULL !!!!!💩 SUE THE LIVING HELL OUTTA THE CITY!!!!!!!
How old are her children? How far did they get from home? Were they in danger, in the street etc? What is the legal age in the state for children to be left unattended for an extended amount of time? It sounds like they just made something up and are trying to see what she’ll accept from them.
....but a kid walking past a crack house on the way to school every day ,well thats fine. She is a good mom.. government over reach.
This is crazy at 10 years old my friends and i were riding and walking all over and ': actually were told to be home at dusk for dinner.
This is disgusting. Please sue them mom! This is a disgrace
She doesn't have a Trump sign in her yard does she?
Jesus. I used to walk for miles at that age. If I avoided trouble and was home before the streetlights were on, it was all good. WTF is happening in America.
This country has gone to shit
I went everywhere when I was 10 this is dumb..overreach of the law
Don’t sign anything they know they are wrong
I'm so glad that my elementary school years were between 1965 and 1971. I never thought that I'd get to 65 years old and actually be grateful to be that age... even wishing I was 10 or 15 years older. It was a good life.
I was a kid in the 80's, it was great. After school I delivered my news papers then did whatever I wanted, as long as I was home for dinner when my father got home from work and then home when it was getting dark our parents didn't care.
Shoot, as a 10 year old i had more long distance miles on my schwinn then most people had on their cars. Riding 20 plus miles away from home by myself and home before the street lights came on..
I grew up in Colo Iowa, and we were all over town at 8 years old.
Australia is watching and supports your fight against government tyranny! 🇦🇺🇺🇸
I live outside my small town, but Innside town ALL the kids and I mean ALL the kids walk to and from school. there is no bussing in town. I've seen little kids like 6 years old walking to and from school. WTF is wrong with these cops? I could understand if she lived in south side Chicago or somewhere like that, but she doesn't.
I'm 75. Even in kindergarten, my brother and sister and I walked to school.. When we moved to a slightly rural area, we walked along a highway that led eventually to Montreal, the main road Eastern Ontario. My twin brother and I were in grade 8 so the walk was an easy one. My youngest sister, though, was only in grade 3. She used to cry at the long walk to school each day. I remember our neighbour also in grade 8 snapped at me one day, "Why is W. crying? B. (her younger sister) is in grade 2 and she's not crying." I guess she implied my sister was a whimp. LOLOL! That family had lived where we lived for a year so B. must have walked that long way (about 30 minutes) even in grade 1! Our parents wouldn't even have thought about driving us to school.
You all still waving those “I support the police” flags?
FTP
It's crazy
Why would you let your kid walk alone It’s an uproar how old is he
I stand w/ mom.
Take the case to court... the Sheriff's Office will LOSE the case. Brittany Patterson did NOTHING wrong.
I think someone/some people has a vendetta with this woman and was trying to harass her to be honest.
I believe she is a real estate agent. There could be a connection there in some way.
Your seeing the results of moma govt. Keep voting the way you all do, it will get worse.
Some cops even bother adults walking alone in public at night or early a.m. Watched on TH-cam the other day police bodycam footage of an adult male walking on a public sidewalk at 1 am not bothering anybody and a cop parked his vehicle and approached him saying the man "looked suspicious" for walking early am. The cop ended up arresting the man for being "disorderly" for walking so early a.m. Some cops are out of control.
The only thing that bothers me is that she didn’t know he left the house. It’s ok for kids to go to the store and around the neighborhoods and town. BUT you need to know that your kid left the house. She even said she was just fed up with him and didn’t care what he did. Soooo there is more to this story
When I was three I rode a tricycle nearly half a mile to the supermarket where I was promptly recognized by our mailman, scooped up unto his truck, and delivered back to my house.
Sounds like a huge over reach by government. Stay strong mom.
There was no need for handcuffs, pure BS, or arrest in the first place 😡 ugh!
The sheriff should resign and sued along with the whole department!
first let's look at another side just for a second. arrestable offense in this case no I don't think so, not justified. however if that 10 year old had been abducted and is missing, we would all be saying why was that child walking alone. it's just the way this world is now, you don't take a single chance. he is only 10. I understand small community, perceived safety environment. being arrested is overstepping, to say that a 10-year old isn't a vulnerable Target or opportunity for tragedy is naive..
please don't attack me this is my opinion
when I was younger, we were allowed to walk the streets of our town in New Jersey where I was born and raised, my mother didn’t work, this was back in the 60s, and 70s. Definitely government over reaching it’s ridiculous. A 10-year-old is definitely old enough to walk to the store by themselves, or with their friends. I support this mother 100%.
After the charges are dropped. They should sue. She will win in court. Lawless abuse of power.
I was walking back and forth to school in urban southern CA by age 6 in the 1970s. This is completely ridiculous. Sounds like this town needs a law enforcement overhaul.
I used to walk to school quite a ways when I was in Elementary school. Younger than that had no problem. This is ridiculous.
Was,this an anonymous tip. Like peanut and fred?
This ignorant excuse for an out of shape young cop should be removed from her job due to her inability to think rationally and make decisions based on sound judgement.
Small town, safe, everyone does it from what I gathered.
I personally wouldn’t let a young kid walk alone in a city.
What age can kids play outside/walk/run/bike alone if it’s illegal? When did this happen? Kids have been out alone for decades! This is insane
How old is the kid? Horrible storytelling
The kids 3 years old genius
I believe he is 10 yrs old.
I would comment! But NewNation will tread on my free SPEECH!
The police traumatized the children by handcuffing their mom in front of them and other behaviors -- truly reckless and irresponsible behavior on their part. I hope she can sue them for reckless endangerment of children.
If only they were this vigilant against abused kids, neglected, and kidnapped children. Hmmm
Being able to roam is a core port of Brain Development..... Proven Fact