A few weeks ago, Adam Washington was tossing a football with his son, age 14, at a park in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Not too far away—but far enough to avoid being bonked by a ball—his wife was pushing their toddler in the swings.
And then two Lower Merion Township Police Department cop cars pulled up.
"I said to my wife, 'I think they're going to come down and give us a hard time,'" Washington tells Reason. "And she said, 'For what?' And I said, 'For throwing this ball in the park.'"
