Police terrorize a 10 year old black girl because she drew a picture of someone bullying her

[mect]

Really? Laziness doesn't suit you well.

List of school shootings in the United States - Wikipedia

Is that enough to prove that there's a problem? How many parent of the deceased kids wished that the police would have stopped it? Are you willing to meet with them and explain that because your feelings towards cops are bad, that they should allow their kid to die.

No one is questioning if there is a problem. The question is how to solve it, which you apparently are clueless about. However, speaking of lazy, did you actually look through the list. I saw one case in the past 20 years where a student under 10 intentionally shot another student.

Additionally, in the only case involving someone under 10, the individual had been involved in far more than drawing violent pictures. There should have been non-violent intervention by social workers long before it ever escalated to shooting. The problem is we are much more willing as a country to fund prisons than we are to fund social welfare programs.

So now that you hopefully have a little more awareness, do you think it is worth traumatizing every single child that draws a violent picture to prevent something that has happened once in the past 20 years?

 

[JEDIYoda]

In all 50 states there are laws against making terroristic threats. A parent was concerned enough about said drawing to escalate. All 50 states must be wrong and you're right. Got it.

What Is a Terrorist Threat? What Are Criminal Penalties? | CriminalDefenseLawyer.com

that statement is just plain idiotic!@!! A drawing by a child is not a terroristic threat @@!!! Ding Dong!! Wake up.....

 

[Lanyap]

Too many comments about the one-sided ACLU picture painted by the OP. I see no police or school racism here. The parents of the threatened kid might be racist (who knows), but there's no way to tell, since their kid was actually threatened, with proof to back it up.

The parents of one of the kids threatened in that drawing contacted the School and insisted that the school refer the child it to the police (ergo school not racist). If only they would have done that in Columbine....those kids were pretty vocal about what they intended, but people blew it off.

In my previous career, people that were either dangerous to themselves OR others were routinely cuffed until things could get sorted out. In some circumstances, we violently took them down, yet in others we created a ruse, and once safely away, cuffed them as gently as they (the person being cuffed) would allow. There were a few times that it wasn't an option, and sometime people got hurt.

Age isn't a factor when violence is concerned. Guns are the great equalizer. Imagine all the ways a mad, tantrum-throwing 10 year old (claims was ADD) with a gun might behave, and the answers are endless. They handled the restraint portion without tact, and hurt people feelings. Officers had no way to know is the girl had access to a gun, knife or anything else.

The police weren't wrong for arresting/cuffing the kid, just not very experienced I'd imagine, at arresting kids at a school. If the same thing happened at my place of work, the same response would have happened.

Train police on how to respond to school incidents and chalk it up to experience learned. Then get all the involved kids and parents a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Threatened? All of the articles I see out there describe the drawing as “offensive.” Big difference. Threatening implies violence in this context, offensive implies rude or hurtful.

https://www.theroot.com/10-year-old-black-girl-handcuffed-and-arrested-for-offe-1847901027

The ACLU’s letter says that the day after N.B. made the drawing of her bully in January 2020, a parent of one of the students who received the girl’s sketch complained about it being “offensive” and told the school to call the police.

A 10-year-old girl arrested at school over a drawing was the only student disciplined because she is Black, mom and attorney say | CNN

A 10-year-old Black girl who was arrested at a school in Hawaii over a drawing was the only Black student involved in the incident and the only one disciplined, the girl's family and their attorney said.

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A 10-year-old Black girl who was arrested at a school in Hawaii over a drawing was the only Black student involved in the incident and the only one disciplined, the girl's family and their attorney said.

 

[JEDIYoda]

You must forgive malukey1.......he is probably a cop or an individual who backs the cops 100% even when they are wrong....thus he`s a bootlicker....

 

[maluckey1]

So...after the last school shooting (Oxford, Michigan) I see the similarity, except for the ending. I'm certain that some will start to think about it, while others will do as they usually do, which is to argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

 

[HomerJS]

So...after the last school shooting (Oxford, Michigan) I see the similarity, except for the ending. I'm certain that some will start to think about it, while others will do as they usually do, which is to argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

This country too busy focusing on the pretty white girl killed in CA. 4 lives for 1. Clearly an even trade.

 

[mect]

So...after the last school shooting (Oxford, Michigan) I see the similarity, except for the ending. I'm certain that some will start to think about it, while others will do as they usually do, which is to argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Yes, I continue to think about how stupid we are as a country to allow such casual gun ownership. I'm all for tightening up the restrictions on gun ownership.