“To be an aspiring superhero these days, most 5-year-olds must enlist clueless younger siblings, restless parents, backyard shrubs, fire hydrants and all manner of pets to serve as their foils and damsels in distress.

Not Miles Scott, for whom much of San Francisco morphed into Gotham City on Friday.

He pulled a woman from the cable car tracks as crowds cheered, then busted the Riddler during a bank heist. The Gotham City Chronicle ran a banner headline: BATKID SAVES CITY.

Miles has had acute lymphoblastic leukemia since he was 20 months old. His cancer went into remission and, with his last round of chemotherapy in June, he said he wanted to be Batman.”* Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, Ana Kasparian and Wes Clark Jr break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Evan Wagstaff, Chris O’Brien and Joe Mozingo / LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1116-sf-batkid-20131116,0,21527.story#axzz2kmFv9Gdb

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