8 Year Old Special Need Kid Cuffed and Charged With Felony Battery

[InbetweenDreams]

Yes, you read that right. Only in the US of A do we arrest small children and actually book them.

But hey, it's just a few bad cops, a few bad teachers....That's what conservatives say anyway....

A video of an eight-year-old boy arrested at Gerald Adams Elementary School in Key West, Florida, for allegedly punching a teacher in the chest has recently emerged. The child's arrest occurred in 2018 but has just now become public.
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The video shows police officers Kenneth Waite and Carter Sims asking the boy to turn around and put his hands behind his back in an attempt to handcuff the child. Waite attempted to handcuff the boy, but the handcuffs did not fit on the child because he was so small. The officers walked the boy to an awaiting police cruiser.

The child was eventually arrested on a charge of felony battery, according to a Key West Police Department arrest report.

The boy’s mother said Monday her attorneys plan to file the lawsuit and hold a news conference virtually on Tuesday. She declined to comment about the incident on Monday.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/...ny-battery

[kindy64]

You should really be careful when you make such absolutist statements.

The US is not the ONLY country in the world that puts children (ie those under the age of 18) in jail or prison.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/co...east/north

[InbetweenDreams]

You should really be careful when you make such absolutist statements.

The same applies to many things. Like saying all republicans are racist, or all liberals want to kill babies or some other crap.

While my statement was mostly tongue and cheek...or mostly sarcasm yes, I wasn't thinking about the horrors all over the world that children go through (not "children" as in they're about to be 18 in a year or two).

That being said, there's quite a few cases. It's far from appropriate in our society and yes, we should be outraged.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/or...ested.html

https://weartv.com/news/local/mother-of-...nt-too-far

Then we also have cases like this...which does beg the question, when is it appropriate to place a child under arrest? (This is probably one of those cases...)

https://www.klfy.com/national/9-year-old...g-die-die/