Police handcuff 6-year-old after school tantrum. Right or wrong?
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum, and the police chief is making no apologies.
WMAZ-TV
(http://on.wmaz.com/I0ZrNE ) reports the 6-year-old is accused of
tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture at school in the
central Georgia city of Milledgeville. The police report says the girl
knocked over a shelf that injured the principal.
The elementary school
called police after the Friday tantrum. The report says when an officer
tried to calm the child, she resisted and was handcuffed. The girl was
charged with simple assault and damage to property.
Police Chief Dray Swicord says the department's policy is to handcuff people in certain situations, and "there is no age discrimination on that rule."
The child was suspended from school until August.
The police were too scared of a six year old child.
The parents did not do too good a job.
The child needs to be evaluated by a professional. (one actually qualified to deal a six year old)
We need to stop this liberal mentality that it's OK to do bad things without holding people accountable for them.
should be the parents
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From the State of Tennessee...
“JUVENILE JUSTICE
You can be arrested or taken into custody for:
1. Delinquent offenses: acts that would be crimes if
committed by adults (traffic violations, theft,
assault, disorderly conduct, vandalism, etc.);
2. Status offenses: acts that are against the law only
for minors (drinking alcohol, using tobacco, curfew
violation, skipping school, running away,
being unruly, etc.);
3. Being dependent, neglected or abused: you can
be taken from your home if your health or safety
is seriously threatened or if there is a chance you
may leave town to get away from the court. You
can only be taken away from home if there is no
other way to keep you safe”
http://www.tennessee.gov/tccy...
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There was only one juvenile that I cuffed in my years of Law Enforcement, and that was a 14 year old male who attacked his Mother with a screwdriver.
I not only believe the Pol...
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From the State of Tennessee...
“JUVENILE JUSTICE
You can be arrested or taken into custody for:
1. Delinquent offenses: acts that would be crimes if
committed by adults (traffic violations, theft,
assault, disorderly conduct, vandalism, etc.);
2. Status offenses: acts that are against the law only
for minors (drinking alcohol, using tobacco, curfew
violation, skipping school, running away,
being unruly, etc.);
3. Being dependent, neglected or abused: you can
be taken from your home if your health or safety
is seriously threatened or if there is a chance you
may leave town to get away from the court. You
can only be taken away from home if there is no
other way to keep you safe”
http://www.tennessee.gov/tccy...
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There was only one juvenile that I cuffed in my years of Law Enforcement, and that was a 14 year old male who attacked his Mother with a screwdriver.
I not only believe the Police were wrong in this case, I believe that when they brought the child in, they should have been the laughing stock of their Department.
PS: These are my cuffs... how the heck did they get them on that child without them falling off?
Police should be on the streets, preventing and/or cleaning up after real crimes. They shouldnt be babysitting.
Hopefully that day will be engrained into her memory and the next time she throws a fit she will remember the consequences of her last meltdown, and choose a more acceptable response to disappointment or anger.
The school was doing its job.
Apparently, these parents weren't.
"He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24) and "Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell." (Proverbs 23:13-14)
ANY REGARD TO THE PERSON'S AGE OR GENDER"........NOT TO LONG AGO, A
"SMALL CHILD AND HER PARENTS WERE KICKED OFF OF AN AIRPLANE FLIGHT,
BECAUSE THEIR CHILD THREW A TEMPER TANTRUM".......AND IT'S GOING TO GET
WORSE.......2 TIMOTHY 3:1-8, ROMANS 13:1-8
"THE LAW IS NOT ABOUT LOVE AND COMPASSION...........THE LAW IS ABOUT,
HANDCUFFS, GUNS, BLOODSHED, AND TAKING A PERSON TO JAIL OR SENDING
THEM TO PRISON, AND THAT IS WHAT THE LAW IS ABOUT".
GOOD for that police chief in not backing down. MAYBE folks will learn to control their beasts, and the REST of the world won't have to deal with them
School officials told WMAZ that they feared the child was a danger to herself and others. She was crying, tearing items off the wall, biting a door knob, trying to break a glass frame and jumping on top of a paper shredder. At one point, she reportedly knocked over a shelf, injuring the school principal, according to the Associated Press.
The officer's police report says Johnson began tearing items off the school principal's office walls and was throwing furniture. The report says Johnson knocked over a shelf that injured the principal.
Johnson also was reportedly biting a doorknob and attempting to break a glass frame while jumping on top of a paper shredder.
She also hit and shoved other students and threw objects at them, refused to comply with the requests that she sit down, and calm down, and even swung at the officers as they tried to restrain her for her own protection.
Imagine if she had picked up scissors.
Where does her right to be a heathen end? And what about the other 25 plus students she terrorized and traumatized?