BALTIMORE (AP) - A woman in Baltimore was knocked to the ground by a squeegee worker on a scooter Thursday when she got out of her vehicle after he broke the rear window, according to a police report.
The woman told police the kid broke the window when she attempted to drive away after being approached by a group cleaning windshields. The police report shows she got out of her minivan to take photographs of the group, but the suspect got on a scooter, ran into her and knocked her to the ground.
Police used the city’s surveillance cameras to confirm the suspect shattered the rear window using his squeegee and then hit the woman with the scooter. She was taken to a hospital with a scrape and large contusion on her left leg.
Baltimore officials have estimated there are about 100 squeegee kids - ages 14 to 21, mostly black and from low-income neighborhoods - regularly working intersections across Baltimore. The police report states the suspect is in his 20s.
The squeegeeing has led to occasional violence. A woman in October told police her registered firearm went off after an “aggressive” group damaged her vehicle and a squeegee kid leaned inside her car. In February, one was arrested after refusing to get off the street and fighting and biting an officer.
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