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Human_84 We wont hurt you human.
Great Old One Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Total posts: 1374 Location: Invisible, sitting next to you. Gender: Male |
 Posted: 14-07-2013 16:08 Post subject: Kids arrested for burping, spilling milk, etc. |
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This is interesting. 
| Quote: | | #2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class. |
| Quote: | | #5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court. |
There's plenty more, at this link: http://intellihub.com/2013/07/13/a-list-of-19-children-recently-arrested-for-trivial-things/ |
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| Human_84 We wont hurt you human.
Great Old One Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Total posts: 1374 Location: Invisible, sitting next to you. Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-07-2013 16:15 Post subject: |
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2 more.... these are great, too.
| Quote: | | #18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area. |
| Quote: | | #19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 8820 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-07-2013 16:28 Post subject: |
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| Wow, America has become a scary place. |
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| Human_84 We wont hurt you human.
Great Old One Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Total posts: 1374 Location: Invisible, sitting next to you. Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-07-2013 20:31 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | | Wow, America has become a scary place. |
Come and join us! Well, I'm not even there anymore. |
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| IamSundog The FTMB member previously known as Sundog
Great Old One Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Total posts: 1572 Location: Right here Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-07-2013 21:21 Post subject: |
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| I spent some time browsing the source - intellihub.com - and it's clear that this is a site with an Agenda with a capital A. I don't doubt that there are some crazy abuses along these lines but I'm personally dubious that this info is free of distortion. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13303 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-07-2013 23:15 Post subject: |
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| Yeah, when you hear someone's been arrested for burping, you can be fairly sure you're not getting the whole story. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 418 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 21-07-2013 14:19 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Yeah, when you hear someone's been arrested for burping, you can be fairly sure you're not getting the whole story. |
I don't know what the whole story is in this case, the Huffington Post has also covered that one however and it sounds rather nasty:
| Quote: | ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A 13-year-old was handcuffed and hauled off to a juvenile detention for burping in class, according to a lawsuit filed against an Albuquerque school principal, a teacher and school police officer.
The boy was transported without his parents being notified in May after he "burped audibly" in PE class and his teacher called a school resource officer to complain he was disrupting her class. The lawsuit also details a separate Nov. 8 incident when the same student was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched as he was accused of selling pot to another student; the boy was never charged
The suit was one of two filed Wednesday by civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy, who says she has been fighting the district and police for years over the use of force with problem children. She says a review of school and Bernalillo County records shows more than 200 school kids have been handcuffed and arrested in the last three years for non-violent misdemeanors.
In the second lawsuit filed Wednesday, the parents of a 7-year-old boy with autism accuse a school officer of unlawful arrest for handcuffing the boy to a chair after he became agitated in class. New Mexico law prohibits officers and school officials from restraining children under 11.
The suits come one year after the same attorney settled a class action lawsuit against the district that was prompted by the arrest of a girl who Kennedy said "didn't want to sit by the stinky boy in class." And Kennedy says she has a number of other cases she is preparing over treatment of students in Albuquerque by school officials, school police, city police and sheriff's officers.
"I am trying to get all the stake holders in a room to get people properly trained to prevent this from happening," Kennedy said.
Kennedy said the problem lies with the schools more than with the law enforcement agencies.
"It lands in the lap of the principal. There are good schools and bad schools. The principals ... who are handling their schools properly don't need to have children arrested. It's ridiculous."
A spokesman for Albuquerque Public Schools did not immediately return calls and emails seeking comment on Thursday. A police spokeswoman said the department does not comment on litigation.
One school board member, Lorenzo Garcia, said he had not seen and could not comment on the lawsuits, but he did say he was concerned about what appeared to be schools getting stuck on a "zero tolerance policy."
"Really, in my opinion, this really increases the whole idea of the schools-to-prison pipeline," he said. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13303 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-07-2013 18:19 Post subject: |
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This is the scary bit:
| Quote: | | "Really, in my opinion, this really increases the whole idea of the schools-to-prison pipeline," he said. |
It's a pipeline? We've all heard the accusations of the US prison system being a lucrative method of free labour, but are they really planning ahead by breeding their convicts from school onwards? |
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| IamSundog The FTMB member previously known as Sundog
Great Old One Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Total posts: 1572 Location: Right here Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-07-2013 20:59 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I don't know what the whole story is in this case, the Huffington Post has also covered that one however and it sounds rather nasty:
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Look, teachers have to be able to maintain discipline and the burper is clearly a trouble maker. I mean, he got strip searched previously, what more proof do you need?
I'm kidding. And I stand corrected. Something is clearly wack in Albuquerque. I guess if you want to teach kids to hate authority and rules and orderly society, this is the way to do it. |
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