Posted on 08/11/2020 9:06:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The 8-year-old boy slumps so far into his seat that the police officer’s body-camera footage only captures the top of his head.
“You know where you’re going? You’re going to jail,” the Key West police officer says in the video.
The officer then instructs him to stand up and place his hands on a metal cabinet in the hallway of his elementary school for a pat-down. Quivering with tears, the boy puts his hands behind his back, but his wrists are so slight that the handcuffs keep slipping off.
Abandoning the cuffs, the officer tells the boy to put his hands in front of him as they escort him to the police car parked outside.
Police said the incident began when a teacher noticed the boy was sitting improperly at a lunch table. When the teacher asked him to sit next to her, she said he refused, saying, “Don’t put your hands on me.”
The report said the teacher took the boy on a walk, during which he allegedly cursed at her and punched her. She then took him to the office, where Officer Michael Malgrat, who wrote the report, said the boy “had his hands clenched into fists and he was postured as if he was ready to fight.”
Crump said the boy had emotional and behavioral disabilities that were neglected during the incident. Despite having an individualized educational program, the school placed him with a substitute teacher “who had no awareness or concern about his needs,” Crump said in a news release. Crump alleged the teacher “escalated the situation by using her hands to forcibly move him."
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The cops are doing a “Scared Straight” on this kid to try and teach him about consequences. The comments on the video by leftist loons appalled by this tactic show why society is going down the toilet.
Glad they’re getting rid of those gang members.
Did they run the arrest before crapcago DA Foxx?
States make their own laws regarding education.
Maybe it's time you moved or enlarged the "ignore" part of the brain.
Bezos is worth 88 skillion dollars and wants me to pay a dollar to read an article on his rag of a news paper...FO
Hate to say this, but those cops were exemplary. Even special needs kids need to be helped to act in a civilized way.Human nature just tends to do the unacceptable until appropriate push back is meted out by those who love him/her enough to discipline.
Follow up would be interesting with little treasure of a scared , previously apparently undisciplined, child. He may have learned a much needed lesson the hard way and has done some growing up.
My theory of child raising which I passed on to my kids is discipline your kids when young with little tap on diapered butt with all the love and hurt in your heart because if you don’t, the society will discipline without that love.
I am not sure if the situation is a police issue or an issue with local law concerning such situations.
In my view the school should not have, nor been required by law to, call in the police, FOR AN 8 YEAR OLD.
The initial procedures should have been to notify the kids parents to pick him up, and then holding the kid in the principals office until the parents got there.
And the solutions must come from the parents and what they do in counseling the child, by themselves and/or with professionals. The solutions should not be dictated by the school, other than to say the kids behavior has to change. I am 100% against dictating detailed professional steps the parents must use. They can be told about them, but it should never be a legal requirement of the school to dictate them. The only goal of the school should be the kids behavior, not how the parents go about trying to improve it.
Teacher Karen went off with a boy student ALONE? Without another adult?
I thought that was a BIG NO NO.
In 4th grade I did a purposely lazy job on a Geography project.
Little did I know the teacher was Croatian and knew my grandmother who was also Croatian. She didn’t call my parents about my work, she called my Grandmother.
My Grandmother called me and screamed at me for the longest time. “You’ve embarrassed me in front of the whole Croatian Chicago community.”
Needless to say I never got a bad grade ever again!
Sometimes kids need a little more than their parents.
When I was a kid I got busted for shoplifting and the shop owner called the police. When they came I asked the officer what was going to happen to me. He said, “You are probably going to go to jail.”
He put the fear of God in me with those words and I never shoplifted again.
In fact, I became good friends with the shop owner and he hired me to work in his store.
“’You’re going to jail’: Body-cam video shows an 8-year-old Florida boy arrested at school”
What was his crime? Declaring his support for Trump on social media?
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This would have been common practice in the “old” days. It was completely a lesson about how actions have consequences. The police officer and the teacher were doing their best to teach this young boy how to be responsible for his actions. Yet you can BET that there are going to be outraged leftists who cannot fathom that we should make ANYONE responsible for the consequences of their own actions.
Ok, what is it? He wouldn’t do what the teacher said, punched a teacher and was clenching his fists at a cop. He needs to learn some life lessons early.
Also, it’s kinda funny how these kids never seem to walk up and kick a Hells Angel. They know exactly what they can get away with, so might as well show him where the line is.
And what did atty Ben Crump have to say when Janet Reno and her thugs brandished guns to take that Cuban kid into custody back in 1998???????
TMZ just said this incident happened in 2018.
Someone searching for bad stuff on cops.
The issue here is litigation. Teachers aren’t allowed to physically touch the children. They can’t even break up a fight. Their only option is to call security.
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