A child psychologist appearing on John Gibson's "Big Story" (interviewed by Judge Napolitano) said it was racism.
"...host of radio WRLAM.
N: Why would the police handcuff a 5-year-old girl?
G: Lack of training, lack of sensitivity, and dare I say it, this is a black child, white cops. I don't want to pull out the race card but we need to look at it.
N: Why do you say it's race? Other than the fact that she black and they're white? Is there racial animus there?
G: I believe there is a lot of unconscious racism in this world. I find it hard to believe that if this were a young white girl, white child, that they would come in and take her out in cuffs. You wouldn't take a white child or black child or any child in that case, out in cuffs. It's stupid.
N: What kind of harm can come to this child, short term, long term, because she was handcuffed?
G: Short term, I think that she may still be terrified and very, very confused.
missed portion ...she was acting out there and asking questions, Judge, as to what may be going with this child behaviorally to begin with.
N: right.
G: Long term, she may a tramatic sort symptoms out of this sort of thing. Perhaps post-tramatic stress. These things don't happen to 5-year-olds.
N: We'll find out eventually but we don't know why the tape was made of this girl and the teacher. The teacher was taping herself so she and her superiors could critique herself. But when the child is unruly. There you can see a bit of unruliness. To me it looks normal for a 5-year-old. But when the child is unruly, how do you handle a child like this in a public school?
G: Well I think that this particular indivivual... is kind of doing the right thing: putting her arms around her, trying to calm her down, letting her know what the limits are, giving her her options, At this point, the tape is showing the girl threatening to punch the teacher. When the teacher tried to hold the girl, the girl kicked her. The girl was also pulling on the womans clothes and looked like she may have come close to biting the woman on the shoulder....but I think where it all goes array, of course, when the cops come in and instead of taking the time with her as they might do with a hostage taker, they just go in and say, "Little girl, you have to stop. This has to stop now and we're carrying you out." That's absolutely crazy. And I also wonder, Judge, whether this girl being video taped the whole time adds to the little girls agitation.
N: In my own experience as a judge, when juveniles were arrested, younger and older, cuffs were never used.
G: It's not only cuffs they put on this child, the plastic cuffs, they put cuffs on her legs, too. And that's something that hasn't quite come out, when she was in the police car. So this is a VERY tramatic, VERY bad situation.
N: Will she and her parents need some kind of therapy --- as a result of this event.
G: absolutely. And I think, of course, this will lead to litigation. But if I were the psychologist working with the young girl and with the parent, I would say, "absolutely, this girl should get some therapy to deal with this and perhaps some other issues we may not know about.
N: (laughing) Do you see any behavior that is out of the ordinary for a 5-year-old from the tapes we've been watching?
G: Well, I'm a little bit concerned. In no way do I want to victimize the victim here, but there may be some disconnect that I see with this little girl in that she just could NOT stop acting out so that needs to be addressed. But certainly, the remedy that was given was absolutely wrong. You can't send in a cannon to kill a fly.
N: agreed. Dr. Jeffrey Gardere, Thank-you ...yadda yadda yadda
Thought I would give you the head's up---
On Bill O'Reilly right now is Al Sharpton talking about an investigation about this---
At the exact same time, Sheila Jackson Lee is on the House floor asking for a HOUSE JUDICIARY INVESTGATION into this incident ---
Hm......both black and both raising a stink on TUESDAY after seeing this BLACK therapist on Fox say it was racist!!
Al Sharpton actually just said that he would do it if a white girl was being handcuffed!