Posted on 12/04/2015 3:03:23 AM PST by raybbr
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) â A third-grader was taken off a school bus and questioned for hours by police because another girl falsely reported the 8-year-old had chemicals in her backpack, her family said in a lawsuit Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, which filed the federal lawsuit against the town of Tiverton, compared the case to that of a Texas teenager who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school in September. The group said such actions terrorize and traumatize children.
The family's lawyer, Amato DeLuca, said police essentially arrested the girl with no evidence. They had already searched her backpack and found nothing when school officials allowed them to put her in the back of a police cruiser and take her alone to the police department, where she was questioned, he said.
"What we've stooped to in the name of public safety is arresting third-graders," he said. "It's so un-American. It's so police state. It's so Gestapo. I never thought we'd do things like that here."
Town Administrator Matthew Wojcik said he had not yet seen the lawsuit, and was still conducting an internal investigation.
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Two other girls told a fourth-grade teacher that J.A. and her friend were talking about chemicals. The teacher sent them to report it to a guidance counselor.
United States public schools: child abuse at taxpayer expense.
TC
Gee, I wonder why the police are losing the support of the public. Ten year old girls arrested and held for hours with NO evidence. I’d sue the school, the principal, the guidance counsellor and the teacher in addition to the police department.
This nonsense police state has GOT to stop before it turns ugly. NOBODY will like the results of the public getting mad as hell at the badge wearers.
I misread somehow. The girls were EIGHT YEARS OLD! Even better /s
Parents now need to take responsibility for their own kids’
education. With the current state of affairs with Muslim
terrorists & other stuff, it has reached the tipping
point.
This “chemicals” situation is very different from the little
“clock” maker, Mohammed, & his troublesome family. That
bunch needs to just stay away. This “chemicals” thing has
been overblown (understandable in today’s climate) and is
apparently being milked for all it’s worth by ACLU’s
parasite lawyers.
Someone detains a third grader for hours b/c they thought she said the word “chemicals”...
They detain a Muslim for making a faux clock bomb and everyone loses their mind!!
I did not think you could even question a minor for 5 minutes without a parent present.
Just the other day, 5 elementary school kids in Rhode Island, age 10-11, were arrested for planning to make a vinegar and cinnamon bomb. I’m not sure how vinegar and cinnamon can be made into a bomb, and probably no one else knows either.
Still trying to prop up that phony ass little muslim bomb maker from Texas I see!
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