“A violent robbery involving an 8-year-old boy had some people shaking their heads and a Minneapolis man leaping to action,” Reg Chapman reports for WCCO-TV. “Last Thursday, a boy was punched and the iPad in his hands was stolen outside a Minneapolis restaurant.”
“Aaron Stillday, 32, was arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated robbery. Police caught him after a good Samaritan chased him down,” Chapman reports. “‘Poor kid,’ said Mohammad Armeli, the man who chased down the robber. ‘I can’t believe it, the blood was all over his face. Could have broken his nose.’ Surveillance video shows the 8-year-old following his aunt out of a day care building. What happened next left Armeli’s blood boiling. ‘This is the scum of the earth,’ he said. ‘You cannot hit a child like that. Don’t hit him for his iPad, or for anything.'”
“Armeli, who works at a Greek restaurant nearby, heard the commotion and went after the robber. While talking to 911 on his cell phone, he chased Stillday for more than a half-mile,” Chapman reports. “Police say they’ve seen Stillday before. ‘As I was told, he’s been arrested 60 times,’ Armeli said. ‘I can’t believe they let him out.'”
MacDailyNews Note: After seeing the shattered iPad and surveillance video of the crime, Apple Store Uptown gave the boy a replacement iPad.
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MacDailyNews Take: There’s no way we could be cops. This scumbag would have “resisted arrest” or “gone for a gun” at least 50 arrests ago.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Predrag” for the heads up.]