Protesters will take to this street this afternoon in a “call for justice” for a 7-year-old who was handcuffed and fingerprinted by Baltimore police last week.

Activists and local politicians are expected to take to the steps outside Baltimore City Hall at 4 p.m. today to demand a personal apology for the detention of Gerard Mungo Jr.

The child was taken into custody last Wednesday as he was sitting on a dirt bike outside of his home.

“It is a call for justice for little Gerard Mungo Jr. and his family,” said Daren Muhammad of Baltimore City’s Community Forum think tank and primary organizer of the demonstration.

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“We are demanding an apology, not from the comfort of City Hall, but the mayor and the police commissioner should go to the mother’s home where the crime actually took place.”

Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon issued a public apology to Mungo’s parents at a news conference Friday. Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm also acknowledged at the conference that the arresting officer could have acted differently.

Muhammad said the protest also will demand the firing of the officer who arrested the boy, because what he did was “a violation of the boy’s civil rights.”

“The officer is back in the community, which is an intimidation factor toward the young man and his family,” Muhammad said. “There are a number of individuals who could have stopped the procedure at any time, but nobody did what somebody should have done. We will continue to keep the family in our prayers and support them.”

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