DETROIT – A father?s bike ride could have him fighting to keep his children.
In early September, Sean Harrington was pulling his twin boys on a trailer attached to his bike for a day of fun in downtown Detroit along the river walk.
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He was returning home and riding down the sidewalk on Park Street when he pulled onto the street to avoid hitting baseball fans who were blocking his path.
He admits he was going the wrong way down a one way street, but he was about fifty feet from his home.
?It?s a bicycle and it was four car-lengths that I was on the wrong way street,? said Harrington.
Police still stopped him and issued him a ticket.
?I can?t wrap my brain around what the police department thinks at any given time when the most dangerous criminal in the city of Detroit is myself,? said Harrington.
Several days later, he received a letter in the mail, asking him to appear in court in November, facing the possibility of being charged with child endangerment.
Harrington and his wife have lived in Detroit for years. He owns three businesses downtown and said he is disappointed that he is now being accused of being an unfit parent.
?I don?t know what?s the next step for them,? Harrington said. ?Maybe it is that my children should be taken away from me because I will do reckless things like take them from a bike ride.?
Local 4 contacted Detroit police and the Wayne County prosecutor?s office, but they did not give a clear answer as to what happened.
This is Harrington?s first run-in with police.