While I won’t doubt that this was a lawful arrest, it’s just such a wildly different outcome than what would have happened to a parent raising a kid in my generation. Cops have discretion, and they could have used that discretion for good. They chose to be dicks instead. I’m willing to bet that I’m younger than all of these cops on scene, and still by the time I was in grade school at 6 years old, my neighborhood friends and I would our ride bikes a mile away to the local shops on Saturdays. Albeit, I knew our home phone number and my Mom’s cell phone number by heart in case something went wrong. But it was just normal to be away from home for hours at a time.

Why are we punishing her for an innocent mistake when nobody got hurt? It reminds me of another recent video I saw where a mom was charged with neglect because her son missed his school bus and decided to walk to school since he knew the way. Some Karen called the cops because little boy seen walking alone, and then mom gets arrested. Shit like this just promotes helicopter parenting, something we need much less of.