How did this country become one in which we arrest children and arrest people who feed the homeless? These are just a few of the instances recently.
13 Year Old Arrested In School For Writing On Desk
13 year old arrested
“The “suspect,” Chelsea Fraser, says she’s sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.
“I’m appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you’re taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?” Fraser’s mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.
It was the word “Okay” that she wrote. There is a video.
Arrest is first under homeless-feeding law (Orlando Sentinel)
Arresting someone for feeding the homeless
A long-simmering dispute between homeless advocates and Orlando officials intensified Wednesday with the arrest of an activist feeding transients in Lake Eola Park downtown.
Eric Montanez, 21, is the first to be arrested under the city’s controversial ordinance that bars feeding large groups of people in downtown parks without a special permit.
This law is going to hurt many good people.
Two Florida cities know just how to deal with those pesky 5 and 6 year old girls.
Arresting kindergarteners
From 2005: CBS/AP) An attorney says he plans legal action against St. Petersburg (Fla.) police officers who handcuffed an unruly 5-year-old girl after she acted up in her kindergarten class.
From 2007:AVON PARK, Fla. — Police arrested a 6-year-old Florida girl and even handcuffed her when she acted out in class. Police officers said Desre’e Watson, a kindergarten student at Avon Elementary School in Highlands County, had a violent run-in with a teacher on Thursday.
Not much to say to that.
Third grader cuffed arrested in front of class at request of parents.
Arresting third graders
“Shady Cove Police Chief Rick Mendenhall wants everyone to know that criminal behavior has tough consequences. That’s why, at the request of parents, he took a third-grade girl at Shady Cove Elementary School out of class in handcuffs and home to her mother for a talk about theft this week.
Mendenhall said the parents, whom he declined to identify to protect the girl’s privacy, asked him to “arrest” their daughter after she was caught stealing for a second time.
“The parents are trying to instill responsibility and show consequences,” he said. “This was my first request like this, but I would do it for any parent.”
On Tuesday, Mendenhall went to a third-grade classroom, handcuffed the girl, whose age Mendenhall didn’t have, and took her home in a police car. No charges were filed, he said. He and the girl’s mother warned the youngster that if she continued to steal, she really would be arrested and have to face theft charges in the juvenile justice system”.
The parents wanted her arrested in front of the class. What can I say to that? I could try to analyze all this, but it would not make sense. It appears to be using fear of arrest and jail as the method of behavior modification now.
I don’t know when it happened here in my country.
but I remember back when I was 13 – back in the late 1970s – when scribbling on a desk might have led to detention. This new 21st century thinking just baffles me.
Here in New Orleans someone I know witnessed the police arresting a young boy that had stolen a gallon of milk from a store. Stolen it, I suspect, because his family needed it. He was thrown to the ground and the milk gallon broke with milk spilling all over the road. Then the cops hoisted the kid to his feet and patted his back in a half-hearted attempt to comfort him. They knew. He was arrested anyway.
Certain forms of arrest are an element of class warfare. Don’t step out of line…or else.
Well if this country is going to get into a frenzy of arresting people, how about nabbing those who commit high crimes and misdemeanors or even those who commit war crimes and torture?
Forget the little kids, handcuff the real criminals.
Yes, Indeed.
If it weren’t so sad, it would make you laugh. We’re all busy trying to teach kids to NOT to be bullies. And Bush comes out with his famous “bring ’em on” words and attitude all while we’re dealing “shock and awe” to the people of Iraq. What do they think our kids are going to learn from all this??? How to talk and work out your differences??? Yaright.