Man who robbed 5 year old caught.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Video at link: The 5 year old is knocked down and dragged as the suspect goes after the necklace. Glad they caught him

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7247481

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police arrested a man who snatched a gold chain from a 5-year-old boy, knocking him to the ground.

Acting on a tip, police said they arrested 18-year-old German Palma. Palma was taken into custody on Tuesday at his residence in South Los Angeles.


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Palma is charged with robbery. His bail is set at $50,000.

The actual robbery happened January 4, 2010. Surveillance video showed the suspect on a bicycle. He approaches the boy, rips the gold chain off his neck and pedals away.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Glad they caught him. That poor little guy. :^(

[AndyA]

2. How awful! What kind of a person robs from a 5 year old kid?

Couldn't the guy find someone his own size to pick on? I'm glad he got caught. Hopefully the kid will get his chain back.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Two questions: What kind of guy robs a 5 year old kid? And,

What kind of 5 year old kid goes around wearing gold chains?

I don't know which is weirder.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Wearing a gold chain is asking to get robbed? I know.. you are kidding.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Now 5 year olds shouldn't be wearing necklaces?

That's ridiculous. I see nothing wrong with a child like that wearing a necklace.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Apparently, it wasn't the typical "necklace" a 5-year-old would wear

The news article said it was a *gold chain*. Furthermore, the South Main area in LA is a high crime area (I know this from experience). I would never have let my kids wear anything but cheap costume jewelry when they were 5, and I certainly would not have let them wear anything that even resembled expensive jewelry in a high crime area.

[guitar man]

4. Mugshot of the perp

[gratuitous]

5. But robbing 5-year-olds is so easy

I mean, I can overpower most of them (except the ones the cops have to taser), I can outrun quite a few of them, and if they have good stuff, why should they have it and I don't? I'm a lot older than 5, and I deserve all the best that life has to offer.

Feel free to adapt the above Republican Mad Lib argument to any situation that occurs.

[Canuckistanian]

9. I still object to calling 18-year olds "men"

They're just boys who just happen to be old enough to be legally responsible for a lot of things.

In this case, however, I'm willing to let him take his punishment like a man.

[Cleita]

10. As a woman when I lived in LA, I never wore gold jewelry or even silver, just

cheap stuff for accessorizing. Getting robbed of your jewelry was very common and in any neighborhood. I didn't wear my wedding rings in public either. I even had a friend who was rear ended by the thief who robbed her of her jewelry when they stopped to exchange insurance info. Needless to say she didn't get her car fixed either. I hope other parents know not to put expensive jewelry on their children or their wives for that matter if they go out in public when they live in a big city like LA.

[flvegan]

11. If only that 5 year old had been armed at the time.

What a shame.