5 year old BLACK GIRL arrested

53 replies · 14571 views · Started by La · Apr 2005

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (April 23) - An attorney says he plans legal action against police officers who handcuffed an unruly 5-year-old girl after she acted up in her kindergarten class. A video camera, which was rolling March 14 as part of a classroom self-improvement exercise, captured images of the girl tearing papers off a bulletin board, climbing on a table and punching an assistant principal before police were called to Fairmount Park Elementary. Then it shows the child appearing to calm down before three officers approach, pin her arms behind her back and put on handcuffs as she screams, "No!'' Largo lawyer John Trevena, who provided the tape to the media this week after obtaining it from police, says the officers went too far. "The image itself will be seared into people's minds when you have three police officers bending a child over a table and forcibly handcuffing her,'' said Trevena, who represents the girl's mother, Inga Akins. "It's incomprehensible ... There was no need for that,'' he added. ABC News The tape shows the girl lashing out at a school employee. Police declined to comment, citing an official complaint by Akins that has sparked an investigation by the supervisor of the four officers who were present. Two are new officers who were being trained that day. Spokesman Bill Proffitt said the investigation would be complete in about two weeks and the findings would be made public. The 30-minute tape shows assistant principal Nicole Dibenedetto trying repeatedly to calm down the girl, who ignores her commands and begins punching her. The child's mother was called but wasn't able to immediately come to the school. After being placed in the back of a police cruiser, police released the girl to her mother after prosecutors informed them they wouldn't bring charges against a 5-year-old.

Well my thing is...if I was her mom I woulda beat the sh*t outta her for acting out cause the girl was clearly bad as hell, but the police were way outta line for what they did and know good and well that if that was a white girl...they wouldnt did all that. I mean damn...she is only 5...what damage could she have really done without havin 3 cops holding her down to cuff her.

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P o e t i q R e i g n from Greensboro, NC · Apr 2005

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WileECoyote06 wrote:
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And the staff at that school need to fired for not knowing how to handle a five year old.
Her mother specially told them, that she didn't want them putting their hands on her daughter. That's the reason why the principal and teacher wouldn't touch the little girl because her mother had told them that she didn't want them too. The cops had been up to the school the week before over the same little girl because if you listen to the video, you will hear the cop say something, "last time, if this happened again, you would get handcuffed" or something. Her mother is already happy to **** but what the hell is she trying to do improve or change this little girl attitude? Now, everyone is taking the blame off the little girl and putting on the principal and teacher. I agree, the handcuffs were way overboard but come on now, in this day in age, if they did touch the little girl, her mother would be screaming bloody murder bout they touched her baby when she was acting out etc etc. They were damned if they do, damned if they don't. I wonder if i'm ready to put up with these no account parents when I start teaching in a few years...sigh

And there it is. And people stop using racism to describe this situation, when it's the momma that should be arrested for allowing her child to behave that ill-mannered. Technically the teacher, and asst. principal followed the correct procedure. They practiced crisis intervention. . which is a technique usually taught to high school teachers. From my teaching years: Speak monotone. Eye Contact. Talk with your hands. Keep moving. Defend yourself if necessary. If the situation escalates, call the SRO (School Resource Officer). Once the SRO is called, they are in complete control of the situation. Since they've already dealt with this girl before, they probably wanted to make an example of her. Insensitive? Yes! Excessive? Probably! Against the law? Not at all. And most courts would probably rule against the mother.

i understand what both of you are saying.... most of the people who have replied admitted that the girl shouldn't have even been acting up in the first place....and wouldn't have been, if the mother would have been taking care of her business...we've admitted this! and even given the backstory....you said made a key phrase - policy for HIGH SCHOOL....that's understandable...shoot, even middle school because there are some very physically strong and loco-minded unruly middle-schoolers out there of all races.... but FIVE YEARS OLD?!?!?! i mean...even if one officer would've cuffed her..... but for three to do so....and put her on the table like that to do so on top of that?!?! and she's ONLY FIVE?!?! i'm sorry, they were still in the wrong for that... even if it were a little White girl, handcuffed by ANY race of police officers, i would be saying the same thing.... and i'm so tired of people saying that Blacks and other minorities are "so quick to pull the race card"....in this country, how can you NOT "pull the race card"??? I mean, granted...there are instances where race should not be an issue and people shouldn't insenuate that one or several people were racist because of something he or she or they said or did....but the bottomline is, there are ALSO times...MANY times....where race IS an issue....where someone really IS racist, whether they made certain comments or not... that's just a reality in this country....and I'm so sick of people acting like it should never or rarely be an option... who's to judge when race or racism is an issue and when it isn't??? if you're a Black person going for a job in a predominantly White company....and you don't get the job, but a White counterpart of yours does.....YES, it is VERY possible that you were simply less qualified than that other person....but to deny or not consider the possibility that you were declined the job for other, underhanded reasons - race, included - is proposterous in such a crooked, corrupted, and sheming country as this one.... regardless as to whether you are Black, Hispanic, Asian-American, Native American, or any other racial group classified as a "minority" here....it is HARD not to consider race as an issue when we're involved in damn near ANYthing....because that's just the type of environment those who came before us (and even some of those amongst us now) created for us to live in.... we could never again "pull the race card" if we want....but I believe so much more would get pass us - even moreso than now..... even if race or racism doesn't end up being an issue in any equation of daily life....certain people of this nation have made it almost second nature to "pull the race card"....when it comes to anything.... so be careful whose throat you jump down.....until nationwide and even worldwide racism is completely (or even mostly) eradicated....people will continue to "pull the race card"....and quite understandably....