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Posted on 04/03/2010 9:24:50 AM PDT by Baladas
(April 3) -- When 12-year-old Alexa Gonzalez was caught doodling on her desk at Junior High School 190 in Queens, New York, she expected detention and an afternoon on desk-cleaning duty. Instead, she was arrested, led out of her school in handcuffs and detained at a local police precinct for hours, she said.
Two months after the incident, Gonzalez and her mother, Maraima Comacho, are suing the New York City Education Department and the New York Police Department for $1 million in damages, claiming excessive use of force and violation of the girl's rights in the ordeal, which Comacho has called a "nightmare."
"We want to stop this from happening to other young children in the future," the family's lawyer, Joseph Rosenthal, told the New York Daily News.
Gonzalez describes the ordeal as traumatizing and excessive, saying that after her Spanish teacher caught her doodling on her desk with erasable green marker, she was "physically dragged by a teacher and an assistant principal" to the dean's office, where school safety officials searched her by placing "their hands inside the rear and front pockets of her jeans." Police were then summoned to arrest her.
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maybe she doodled Miss me yet with a pic of GW
LOL!
There are plenty of criminal kids in the NYC school system, and some of them probably deserve to be arrested for their actions. But this was a good example of criminal stupidity on the part of the teacher, principal, and police.
Justice means making the punishment fit the crime. This was an epic failure.
Yeah, how gallant.
The million is just to cover administrative costs right?
She probably drew a picture of a gun.
Thank God she wasn’t tazed.
Get some money and loot the taxpayer til.
The city needs to learn from the one and imagine, it will be a young lady providing the instruction.
Arrest a kid for doodling/defacing a desk. But look the other way if they bully a classmate to death.
Just another reason not to send the kidlets to government schrools.
If “doodling” means drawing gang graffiti, then the arrest is warranted. Many of these “innocent” students are hardened, thieving, murderous gang members, and need to weeded out of schools.
I second that you sick mother
>>”I love my friends Abby and Faith,” the girl wrote, adding the phrases “Lex was here. 2/1/10”
Maybe she meant Lex Luthor..he’s “bad”.
According to earlier stories, she wrote the names of a couple of girls who were her classmates, and said that she liked them. She was just trying to make friends and fit in.
Oh, I just read she doodled her name. Yeah, this was bullsht. She should sue the hell out of school system. They threw the book at her, but probably coddle and hug the “unfortunate” hoods and trash.
Yet they would give the girl condoms and tell her to “have fun” and provide an abortion.
This country is really going nuts.
We taxpayers buy them books, send them to school, and they still know nothing.
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