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Boy Arrested After Throwing Snowball At Cop
13-year-old being charged with a felony following incident
Posted: Feb 21, 2014 3:41 PM CST Updated 2 hours ago

A 13-year-old boy is being charged with a felony after he allegedly hit a Chicago police offer with a snowball. According to The Chicago Tribune, the incident happened close to the school the boy attends. The officer reported that the boy threw a snowball and hit him in the arm while he sat in a marked squad car. The eight-grader claims he wasn't the one who threw the snowball and that it didn't hit the officer directly. Regardless, he was arrested and charged with battery to a police officer, which is a felony. In addition to the charges, the school has suspended the boy for five days, his mother said. Police confirmed it was the suspect's first arrest.

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I think it would better if they just scared the kid, not actually file charges. The kid seems to be a punk in the making. Not many will throw a snowball at a cop.

I wish I can throw a snowball at a cop, they annoy the hell out of me


Arresting a kid for a f*cking snowball?

Arresting a kid for a f*cking snowball?

I know it. Murders are free, robbers are free, and rapist are free but yet a cop arrested a 14 year old kid??? They should of fined the mother and gave the kid a good talking to.

A kid arrested for throwing a snowball at a police officer? For him to be arrested, he'd have to do so intentionally. Either that, or the kid probably didn't know who he was hitting with the snowball.

I think it would better if they just scared the kid, not actually file charges. The kid seems to be a punk in the making. Not many will throw a snowball at a cop.

Very true, probably better to just scare the kid.

A kid should never throw a snowball at an adult they don't know.

If the cop was a guy who lived in the neighborhood, knows all the kids, and all of the kids know him, that would be one thing.

And of course, there are also different kinds of snowballs. You've got the heavy slushy kind and the light powdery kind. The heavy kind can be packed into an ice ball, and those could do some damage if they hit a person...or a vehicle.

...Police confirmed it was the suspect's first arrest...

That's the part that cracks me up. A 13 year old gets arrested, and they go out of their way to say this is his first arrest. That's how bad society is getting.

I think it would better if they just scared the kid, not actually file charges. The kid seems to be a punk in the making. Not many will throw a snowball at a cop.

Still, deliberately throwing something at a Police Officer is technically an
act of assault. But I agree with you, putting him in Jail for like a day to
teach him a lesson would have probably been better.

Still, deliberately throwing something at a Police Officer is technically an
act of assault. But I agree with you, putting him in Jail for like a day to
teach him a lesson would have probably been better.


It's still a 13 year old and the stupid police should have been normal enough to realize that