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Dang. Do I really have to go the Washington Post website to find out?

From reading this, I get the impression that there is something big that this excerpt or the Washington Post is leaving out.

On the surface, this sounds completely inappropriate and one-sided. If that is all there is, of course someone should be punished.

I just think there is something else that isn’t evident here.

Any idea what that might be?

Agreed, there must be more to this.

As a security guard at a beach resort here in North Florida a few years ago, I saw the use of police to impress an 8 year old boy as to the inappropriateness of his actions work very well and straightened out the kid. The kid had fired a bottle rocket off the 8th floor of a condo into the sea oats which are "protected" and which burned in a pretty good fire which I and two other guards managed to squelch before the FD got involved. The requirement was for immediate eviction. I had seen the kid do it and went up to the unit to investigate. It was occupied by a preacher and his wife from Atlanta and a group of 6 8-9 y.o. boys who were a guidance project for the church, boys form the ghetto who had showed academic promise and needed guidance to keep them in school and out of jail. Had they been evicted the rocketeer would have been kicked out of the program. The police were called to do the eviction and the officer who showed up was one I knew and I asked him if he could impress the kid . I knew him to be a pretty good actor and he put on a good performance impressing the boy that his action was not civilized and jeopardized his future. He rode him to the substation with preacher accompanied. Paper work was done and the boy had to sign things. He was released with solemnity to the custody of the preacher and returned to the resort. The manager at the resort determined that an eviction did not have to be done and the group completed their vacation which was a reward for a year of good behaviour and good grades. A year later the preacher was back with his family and I met him again. He said the boy had not got into any further trouble. That paperwork at the station was show-only and went into the trash. PS. The officer a couple of months later got shot to death in a traffic stop right in front of the same condo by a punk on the run from Indiana. here in North Florida a few years ago, I saw the use of police to impress an 8 year old boy as to the inappropriateness of his actions work very well and straightened out the kid. The kid had fired a bottle rocket off the 8th floor of a condo into the sea oats which are "protected" and which burned in a pretty good fire which I and two other guards managed to squelch before the FD got involved.

The requirement was for immediate eviction. I had seen the kid do it and went up to the unit to investigate. It was occupied by a preacher and his wife from Atlanta and a group of 6 8-9 y.o. boys who were a guidance project for the church, boys form the ghetto who had showed academic promise and needed guidance to keep them in school and out of jail. Had they been evicted the rocketeer would have been kicked out of the program. The police were called to do the eviction and the officer who showed up was one I knew and I asked him if he could impress the kid . I knew him to be a pretty good actor and he put on a good performance impressing the boy that his action was not civilized and jeopardized his future. He rode him to the substation with preacher accompanied. Paper work was done and the boy had to sign things. He was released with solemnity to the custody of the preacher and returned to the resort. The manager at the resort determined that an eviction did not have to be done and the group completed their vacation which was a reward for a year of good behaviour and good grades. A year later the preacher was back with his family and I met him again. He said the boy had not got into any further trouble. That paperwork at the station was show-only and went into the trash.

PS. The officer a couple of months later got shot to death in a traffic stop right in front of the same condo by a punk on the run from Indiana.

Sounds like the substitute teacher was not briefed on this problem, special, what ever...child. She treated him like she would a normally misbehaving kid, thereby creating the incident that can now be twisted into something useful politically.