by Elizabeth Eisele/ KMOV.com
(KMOV.com) -- A
family is demanding answers after their 12-year-old son was approached by a cop
for walking on the wrong side of the street and then is falsely arrested
because of an officer’s oversight.
The middle school student said a New Mexico police officer
stopped him for walking on the wrong side of street. Then the officer ran his
name and a warrant charge showed up for possession of marijuana.
However, the warrant was actually issued for a 15-year-old
boy with the same name.
“He was in the juvenile detention center overnight like he’s
12,” said the boy’s mother Shaniqua Byrd, “That doesn’t, shouldn’t have
happened and no one has offered an apology or anything we haven’t heard
anything from them.”
The officer’s police chief is admitting they were wrong in
making the arrest, but the family is suing because they say their child should
have never been stopped in the first place.