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.
