“Don’t make a wrong move,” the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. “Period.”
The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject’s thin wrists.
“Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts,” the subject exclaimed.
The officer pressed his weight into the subject’s small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.
I’m honestly kind of confused. Elementary school arrests are very high, but in my mind I just assumed they were zero… Why wouldn’t they be zero?! These are little children. I’m honestly curious what extreme circumstances could lead to needing to arrest a child?
I’m Canadian, and I remember fights in elementary, and even some combative kids fighting teachers or the principle trying to break them up. I don’t recall a single police officer ever being called.
Maybe I’m just naive, but I’m legitimately baffled by this.
Reading this whole article was a mindfuck for me. I don’t have kids, so current school conditions aren’t something I think about ever.
The last time I was plugged into this discussion, the talk was about how more and more schools even had a single SRO and how they were being relied upon for disciplinary actions and physical handling of students because school districts were so afraid of being sued if a teacher got involved.
In the time since, it seems that this ceased to even be a discussion as it has become accepted and normal in American schools, at least outside of Atlanta. As extra wtf, note that in the last bullet point of my original comment it mentions a 5 year old got arrested… because that is normal, right???
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