[Steel Wolf]

Everyone involved in this should be fired. Twice.

If they have anything in their offices that wouldn't make it past airport security, then they should be dragged out in handcuffs, and brought to the police station for their crimes.

And slapped. Repeatedly.

[MikefromOhio]

::::sigh::::

You would think there would have been some discretion when the officers arrived at the scene, even though there really wasn't a scene in the first place....

[JLS]

Apologies solve everything for the state. It is the rest of us that must be punished to the full extent they can get away with. Even for possession of scissors.

[beezdotcom]

Further down in the story, it referred to them as 'shears' - I would love to see the stupidity of this episode heightened by having them turn out to be pinking shears....

[TheCrusader]

Kinda shows ya where the future of America is headed to, don't it? Wasn't it just a week or two ago the police in Florida tasored a six year old boy because he had a piece of glass in his hand? And what city was it in last month when they arrested a little boy in school and booked him because a teacher found a tiny jacknife in his pocket? It's insanity.

[TalBlack]

"Although officers were following protocol when they drove the girl to a police station with her hands cuffed in front of her,.."

Couldn't have happrned 50 yrs ago. Not wouldn't---COULDN'T. Today not one guy was man enough to say 'cut the crap'. "Protocol" my arse. This is the sort of claim that is the first refuge of the gutless.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I remember being five years old and getting into a friendly scissors fight with one of my classmates on school grounds right after school let out for the day. We were the only two kids around, and clearly having the time of our lives, when suddenly, out of nowhere, a grim-visaged teacher appeared, seized the scissors out of our little hands, and strode back inside the building, all without saying a word. I never saw the teacher again, or my scissors.

[TASMANIANRED]

Use the tools of the idiots against twist against them. Sue the School, the school system, the teacher personally and the police.

[SoDak]

In 1981, as a shop project, I brought to school a .22 Cal Remington Rifle. I rode the bus that day. The bus driver insisted on seeing it, sighted it and told me he thought it might shoot a little left. As soon as I got to school, the Superintendant grabbed the rifle out of my hands and asked if I liked the Remington better than a Winchester. I put it in my locker, and later took it to the shop where I dis-assembled it and proceeded to refinish the stock, and re-blue the mechanism. Times have, apparently, changed. I'd still be in prison now under todays climate.

[Xenalyte]

Johnson said he told Rose Jackson that the arrest of her daughter, Porsche Brown,

First, where's Mr. Brown?

Second, why does Mom not have her daughter's name?

Third, PORSCHE? I'd detain the kid and arrest the mother for that alone. Criminy, at least have the sense to spell it Portia.

[csvset]

Yeah sister, first it's scissors, then stilletos. Next thing you know you're hooked, jonseing for the hard stuff... chainsaws!

[Glenn]

This is the school system that Fast Eddie managed to help bankrupt as mayor. His reward? They made him governor.

[yarddog]

Today it is SOP to handcuff everyone around a crime scene. It is for "my own safety" you know. Everyone seems to accept that as necessary as cops safety is more important than anything.

I recall an article by Jeff Cooper some time ago when he said a citizens dignity is more important than the almost non-existent danger to police. He also mentioned that in ancient Rome it was illegal to shackle a citizen for any reason.

I wouldn't go that far and see no problem with cuffing dangerous criminals when they are arrested but this idea that everyone must be shackled is despicable.

[SerpentDove]

The jackboot thug defenders will be on this thread, in short order.

[P.O.E.]

Have the administrators been eating the school paste again?

[monday]

Does everyone see where we are headed when we put the safety Nazis in charge? Insanity. All sorts of enjoyable activities and useful products banned because they MIGHT harm someone.

Why do we put up with them? Because we are them. Each of us has a pet peeve, a product or activity we want banned because we don't like them.

Cell phones, cigarettes, skate boarding, SUV's, guns, hunting, knives, scissors, Big Mac's, chocolate, for crying out loud, why don't we just ban everything and require everyone to wrap themselves in cotton and lock themselves in their closets?

Do everyone a favor, go out and slap a safety Nazi NOW, before they take over the world.

[LexBaird]

The girl's suspension, initially set for five days, was amended to two days and she was expected to return to class Tuesday, district spokeswoman Barbara Farley said Monday. She said she knew of no plans to expunge the suspension.

Since school administrators are now strictly governed by protocols and "zero tolerance" policies, I propose we fire them all and replace them with simple decision tree flow charts. At least then there would be a reason for the total lack of initiative and common sense.

[Teacher317]

Although officers were following protocol when they drove the girl to a police station with her hands cuffed in front of her, discretion will be used in future cases involving young children, Police Chief Sylvester Johnson said.

Piffle and poppycock. Once discretion is used, especially in Philly, it will either be applied inequitably, or it will be accused of applying it inequitably. Then the Zero-Tolerance Nuts prance along, and set legislation in place to make sure that no intelligent discretion or decision-making will be allowed. Result of Liberal lunacy #127674.

[Coleus]

was arrested and handcuffed after she brought a pair of scissors to school in her backpack.

[Palladin]

"Porsche"

Now they're naming their kids after cars.