The sixth grader, whose name was redacted from the report by police, got into a dispute with a school staffer when he refused to retrieve some napkins and clean up the spill during his lunch period. The boy, police reported, became “belligerent” and told the employee, “This is stupid, you’re retarded.”
After a school resource officer approached the student and asked him to clean up the milk, the boy said, “This is crap, I’m not doing it.” He then got up, emptied his tray into the trash, and began to leave the cafeteria. The officer instructed the boy to return to his seat and wait further instructions from the school administrator.
When the student became “increasingly agitated,” the officer grabbed the student by the arm and “began to perform an educational escort.” The boy then broke free, and ran around the cafeteria and a hallway before being tackled by the officer, who handcuffed the five-foot, 100-pound student. The child was taken to the principal’s office, where he was later released into his father’s custody.
3 comments:
The problem kid aside this is the sort of shit that happens when you have police in schools... He should have been punished, by the school with school rules. When you have a youth that clearly has a problem with authority being told to do something by the ultimate form of authority figure who elevates the anxiety of the situation you solve nothing. The cop should not be there in the first place and should not step into a situation that was clearly something a school official should take care of.
The sense of entitlement in some of today's kids is disturbing. Suspend the little brat.
From the article at SmokingGun, it was the police officer's job to be at that school (sort of a security guard), so the school WAS taking care of the situation.
The brat in question apparently didn't have any respect for anybody, including the cop. It's pretty sad when that kind of behavior is so typical that they have to create an in-house police station. In a friggin' middle school.
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