Mother Sues Florida School Board over Police Handcuffing of Her Kindergartner
From my other blog:
You may remember the story of Ja’eisha Scott. It broke almost exactly four years ago.
A Black kindergarten girl in Pinellas County, Florida had a tantrum in school. The school decided the best way to handle it was to call the police and request that the girl be charged and arrested. St. Petersburg Police officers responded to the call; the officers felt the best thing to do was handcuff the small child. Because handcuffs are not designed to fit five year olds they had to use plastic ties on the girl’s wrists; they hand cuffed her ankles and kept her bound in the back seat of police cruiser for several hours, while they sought to press charges against her. Footage of the police forcing the girls hands behind her back and cuffing her and of excerpts of tantrum went viral on the web and played repeatedly on TV for some days.
Source: hungryblues.net
