A black mother told police a white man assaulted her child. They arrested her instead.
for his felony assault of my clients,” Merritt added. “We would like to see the individual who all this started from — the neighbor who assaulted a 7-year-old child — prosecuted as well.”
He noted on Twitter that police didn’t take Craig’s original report about her son allegedly being assaulted.
On Wednesday morning, Merritt tweeted that he was working to secure the release of both women. By Wednesday afternoon, that release had occurred, according to the lawyer’s Twitter feed.