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He’s getting an ass whooping from grandma.
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Are we sure that’s not three kids in a trenchcoat?
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I wonder if the child is stolen too. Either way, I hope his using a kid as a human shield is taken into consideration during his trial.
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Thought I might have recognized that kid…
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Well that does fit the age of the adult in this withdrawal incident…
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Ablative baby armor.
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What, you want him to just leave the kid in the car?
You can get in serious trouble for that.
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It’s hard to entirely rule things out when you have no reason to suspect someone is acting entirely rationally(or is sufficiently desperate that very short term optimizations count as ‘rational’); but stealing a young-ish child seems like adding a lot of complexity and visibility to the plan, as well as some easy additional charges, for limited benefit.
Kid is definitely old enough to throw a very suspicious fit at being carried around by an unauthorized party if not carefully mollified somehow; in addition to being an inconvenient burden if you need to make haste; and only helps you if you are dealing with cops who fall into specific band of being willing to use lethal force against a fleeing property criminal, rather than IDing them and picking them up at a more advantageous time; but squeamish about collateral damage and not confident in their ability to avoid it.
Probably a group of nonzero size; but not large enough to make the extra hassle and significant additional charges seem terribly compelling.
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Reminds me of the Damon Runyon story and 1942 movie, “Butch Minds The Baby”. Safecracker’s day to care for baby has to break into safe without waking baby.
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