RE: CHARGES DROPPED IN CHICKEN NUGGET CASE!!!
So my connect @ the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel hits me up on Facebook and shares this with me. If you’ve been following this story, you knew this would happen. Did they really think that they could make an example out of this innocent looking kid over some chicken nuggets. Seems like we’ve won the battle but Adam still has to attend class as the nugget thief. How uncool is that!
The Police Department has withdrawn a theft ticket issued to a Shorewood High School student who was handcuffed, photographed and fingerprinted after being accused of stealing a chicken nugget meal from the school cafeteria, Police Chief David Banaszynski said Monday.
Police and the school principal agreed the matter should be dropped, he said.
The ticket, given in March to Adam Hernandez, was to be the subject of a Municipal Court trial Tuesday.
“It shouldn’t have gone this far. There are other means and methods to handle this kind of situation,” Banaszynski said.
The arrest of the 15-year-old freshman was reported Sunday by Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane.
Kane reported that Hernandez denied stealing the $2.60 meal, but rather received it from a friend who participated in a free lunch program at the school.
A rally in support of Hernandez had been planned at Village Hall just prior to Tuesday’s scheduled trial.
Banaszynski confirmed that after Hernandez was arrested and handcuffed at the school he was taken to the police station to be photographed and fingerprinted before being released.
He said the same procedure would have been used had police been told, for example, that someone had eaten food from the deli of a grocery store without paying for it.
The fine and costs assessed for a municipal theft ticket total about $170, Banaszynski said.
Banaszynski noted that the police officer who works at the high school full time, as well as an assistant principal, were at the scene when officers arrived to make the arrest.
Asked if he thought a theft had occurred, Banaszynski said he didn’t want to speculate.
“There’s more than one side of the story,” he said.
Hernandez’s lawyer, James Hall, could not be reached for comment.
THE RALLY WILL STILL CONTINUE TOMORROW @ SHOREWOOD VILLAGE HALL (3930 n. MURRAY AVE)….AND THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED!!!!
