Cops Said a Child Was Lost in Philly's 'Riots.' Video Shows They Took Him From His Mom's Car

On Thursday, one of the nation’s biggest police unions published a photo of a white police officer holding a black toddler, claiming the child was lost during “violent riots” in Philadelphia. But lawyers for the child’s family, and video of the incident taken by a bystander, have revealed that police officers snatched the child from the back of a civilian vehicle that had nothing to do with the unrest, breaking the car windows, and assaulting his mother.

Protests in Philly began on Monday following the fatal police shooting of...