Chief says police should not have been called to school to handcuff kid

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7YRKH48E.html

Black Leaders Call for Police Officers to Be Disciplined After Handcuffing 5-Year-Old Girl

<snip>About two dozen black leaders, many of them retired educators and administrators, met with the police chief Thursday to discuss the March 14 incident at Fairmount Elementary School, where three white police officers handcuffed the black kindergartner.

"St. Pete just comes out smelling when you look at that picture that's worth a thousand words," said Sevell Brown, a St. Petersburg minister and state president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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 screamed "No!" and began to cry. snip

Police Chief Charles Harmon said officers never should have been summoned to the school, but he refused to say whether they made a mistake by handcuffing the girl. The investigation is still ongoing.

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[bpilgrim]

1. good, finally an adult in authority speaks up

that was simply BARBARIC.

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[DawnneOBTS]

3. There should be two school systems here already...

one for the children of Democrats or normal people, where we know our children won't be getting arrested for throwing a temper tantrum and will actually be learning about evolution, birth control, etc., and one system for the rest, which can be based on "no child left behind" and "W is the second coming of Christ." This way we can assure that the number of fundies/freepers/rethugs, etc. in politics will diminish. They will all end up as dumb as Chimpy and Jebbie. I feel very sorry for the five-year-old girl and I hope her parents and everyone else make fools out of the State of Florida. Not like they aren't already.