People who are in their forties and fifties, don't realize how much our society
has changed, and I mean, how much worse it has become. I've mentioned before
that I attended, what was supposed to be, "the worst high school in Manhattan".
I'm not sure what measurements they used to come up with that definition, but
it probably had to do with the fact that the majority of students were black
and brown. I know there was some violence that occurred because I heard rumors
of knife fights in the back stairwells. However, the police were never called
and we had no police officers or any other kind of guard stationed in the
school. There was always a teacher on hall duty on every floor and if a student
was not in a classroom, he or she had to have a pass. There were student
monitors, actually the toughest boys in the school were chosen for that task,
to keep order on the stairs, and there were up and down staircases. That meant,
you could not go up on a staircase dedicated for only down traffic. Those of us
who were white and in the academic track and active in extra curricular
activities, were kind of protected from a lot of the regimentation. Even so, I
thought that all of that strict discipline was a bit overdone. But it was
another world entirely. No one back in the 1950's would have been arresting six
year olds.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Jail a 6 year old? Talk about a collapsing society!
Two thoughts came to me as I listened to the following article a couple of
dayus ago. Of course the first thought was to wonder about the IQ of the
trained educators who stepped up to the line and called in the Cops to be the
bad guys, and to cuff and lead off to Juvy jail, a Public Enemy, a 6 Year Old
Girl!
Really. A six year old child throwing a six year old tantrum, and a school
full of trained "Educators" had to call in the Cops. But why not? Whether 6
or 96, our national policy for discipline is Negative Reinforcement. Just
knock some sense into their little pointed heads!
I know many folks will disagree with me, but I will keep my mouth shut and
simply point to my World History Book. That book is full of negative
reinforcements. So how's it working?
The other thing that jumped out at me was the word "Charter". This arrest and
cuffing of a little 6 year old child took place at a Charter School! Aren't we
being sold the idea that Charter Schools are a superior format in which to
provide the highest quality of education?
Back in the 40's I attended a K through 8 public school. If there was a
tussle, and it was never in a class room, always on the playfield, we had
teachers, mostly women, who simply rolled up their sleeves and waded into the
fracas.
Read the following and then tell me how great America is.
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(Lindsey Sitz, Nicole Ellis, Ross Godwin/Nicole Ellis) By Alex Horton Feb. 26,
2020 at 10:37 a.m. PST
Kaia Rolle’s wrists were much too small for handcuffs, so when an officer held
a white zip tie in his hands, the 6-year-old girl was curious at the sight.
“What are those for?” Kaia asked the pair of Orlando officers.
“They’re for you,” school resource officer Dennis Turner said, as another
officer slipped them over the first-grader’s wrists. “No, don’t put handcuffs
on!” Kaia sobbed, pleading with a charter school official feet away.
“Help me, help me, please!”
The two officers perp-walked Kaia to a patrol vehicle waiting outside Lucious
and Emma Nixon Academy, with Kaia crying the entire way, as shown in
body-camera footage of the September incident obtained this week by the Orlando
Sentinel.
The incident, which
prompted wide national condemnation after it occurred, led to Turner’s firing
after the department concluded he violated arrest policy, Orlando Police Chief
Orlando Rolón said last year.
“I was sick to my stomach when I heard this,” he said then. “We were all
appalled. We could not fathom the idea of a 6-year-old being put in the back of
a police car.”
The extent of trauma from the incident is unknown, but the Sentinel’s release
of the video provides a clearer and damning glimpse inside the school where
Turner — an officer accused of abusing his own son and of excessive force on
the job — led the arrest.
“I knew that what they did was wrong, but I never knew she was begging for
help,” Meralyn Kirkland, Kaia’s grandmother, told the Sentinel. “I watched her
break.”
[How a 6-year old was taken from school to a mental-health facility — without
her mother’s consent]
Two burly officers were called in after school officials said Kaia had a
tantrum and struck three school workers, prompting a charge of misdemeanor
battery, the Sentinel reported.
But by the time the officers arrived, Kaia was sitting calmly in an office
chair while a school official read a book to her. The child was unprepared to
go, and she protested being put in a police car.
“You don’t want to? You have to,” the other officer said in the video.
“Please, give me a second chance,” she pleaded.
After Kaia was placed in the vehicle, Turner returned to an office where three
school officials appeared distraught.
“The restraints, are they necessary?” one employee asked him.
“Yes,” Turner said. Two women looked away from him. “If she was bigger, she
would have been wearing regular handcuffs.”
The employees appeared baffled a child that young would be restrained, although
Turner provided some statistics. The youngest person he ever arrested
previously was a 7-year-old boy, he told them, among 6,000 arrests in nearly
three decades in law enforcement.
“Now, she has broken the record,” Turner said.
[California mother sentenced to 5 months of prison in college-admissions
scandal]
That remark especially agonized Kirkland. “You’re discussing traumatizing a 6-
and 7-year-old — and that’s a boasting right for you?” she told the Sentinel.
“These are babies.”
The other officer involved, Sergio Ramos, responded as a transport officer and
raised multiple concerns with his supervisor about the arrest, department
spokesman Sgt. David Baker said in a statement. No one told Ramos to stop the
transport, and an investigation exonerated him, Baker said.
An arrest record said school employee Beverly Stoute wanted to press charges,
which the school has denied, the Sentinel reported. The school did not respond
to a request for comment. Turner could not be reached for comment.
Kaia was processed at a juvenile facility and had to use a step stool for her
mug shot, Kirkland told the paper. State attorney Aramis D.
Ayala said after
the incident that her office never intended to move forward with charges
against Kaia.
“I refuse to knowingly play any role in the school-to-prison pipeline at any
age,” she said afterward.
Another 6-year-old, a boy, was arrested by Turner for battery in an unrelated
incident the same day, although the arrest was halted before he was fully
charged, the Sentinel reported.
Rolón addressed the consequences Tuesday as the body-cam footage circulated in
news reports. A new department policy requires any arrest of a child under
12 to be approved by a deputy chief,
he said.
Before that, a manager was required to approve that kind of arrest.
Turner violated that policy.
Rolón also mandated more oversight from charter school resource of Body-cam
video shows 6-year-old crying for help as officers zip-tie her banner end
article
By
Alex Horton
Feb. 26, 2020 at 10:37 a.m. PST
Kaia Rolle’s wrists were much too small for handcuffs, so when an officer held
a white zip tie in his hands, the 6-year-old girl was curious at the sight.
“What are those for?” Kaia asked the pair of Orlando officers.
“They’re for you,” school resource officer Dennis Turner said, as another
officer slipped them over the first-grader’s wrists. “No, don’t put handcuffs
on!” Kaia sobbed, pleading with a charter school official feet away.
“Help me, help me, please!”
The two officers perp-walked Kaia to a patrol vehicle waiting outside Lucious
and Emma Nixon Academy, with Kaia crying the entire way, as shown in
body-camera footage of the September incident obtained this week by the Orlando
Sentinel.
The incident, which
prompted wide national condemnation after it occurred, led to Turner’s firing
after the department concluded he violated arrest policy, Orlando Police Chief
Orlando Rolón said last year.
“I was sick to my stomach when I heard this,” he said then. “We were all
appalled. We could not fathom the idea of a 6-year-old being put in the back of
a police car.”
The extent of trauma from the incident is unknown, but the Sentinel’s release
of the video provides a clearer and damning glimpse inside the school where
Turner — an officer accused of abusing his own son and of excessive force on
the job — led the arrest.
“I knew that what they did was wrong, but I never knew she was begging for
help,” Meralyn Kirkland, Kaia’s grandmother, told the Sentinel. “I watched her
break.”
[How a 6-year old was taken from school to a mental-health facility — without
her mother’s consent]
Two burly officers were called in after school officials said Kaia had a
tantrum and struck three school workers, prompting a charge of misdemeanor
battery, the Sentinel reported.
But by the time the officers arrived, Kaia was sitting calmly in an office
chair while a school official read a book to her. The child was unprepared to
go, and she protested being put in a police car.
“You don’t want to? You have to,” the other officer said in the video.
“Please, give me a second chance,” she pleaded.
After Kaia was placed in the vehicle, Turner returned to an office where three
school officials appeared distraught.
“The restraints, are they necessary?” one employee asked him.
“Yes,” Turner said. Two women looked away from him. “If she was bigger, she
would have been wearing regular handcuffs.”
The employees appeared baffled a child that young would be restrained, although
Turner provided some statistics. The youngest person he ever arrested
previously was a 7-year-old boy, he told them, among 6,000 arrests in nearly
three decades in law enforcement.
“Now, she has broken the record,” Turner said.
[California mother sentenced to 5 months of prison in college-admissions
scandal]
That remark especially agonized Kirkland. “You’re discussing traumatizing a 6-
and 7-year-old — and that’s a boasting right for you?” she told the Sentinel.
“These are babies.”
The other officer involved, Sergio Ramos, responded as a transport officer and
raised multiple concerns with his supervisor about the arrest, department
spokesman Sgt. David Baker said in a statement. No one told Ramos to stop the
transport, and an investigation exonerated him, Baker said.
An arrest record said school employee Beverly Stoute wanted to press charges,
which the school has denied, the Sentinel reported. The school did not respond
to a request for comment. Turner could not be reached for comment.
Kaia was processed at a juvenile facility and had to use a step stool for her
mug shot, Kirkland told the paper. State attorney Aramis D.
Ayala said after
the incident that her office never intended to move forward with charges
against Kaia.
“I refuse to knowingly play any role in the school-to-prison pipeline at any
age,” she said afterward.
Another 6-year-old, a boy, was arrested by Turner for battery in an unrelated
incident the same day, although the arrest was halted before he was fully
charged, the Sentinel reported.
Rolón addressed the consequences Tuesday as the body-cam footage circulated in
news reports. A new department policy requires any arrest of a child under
12 to be approved by a deputy chief,
he said.
Before that, a manager was required to approve that kind of arrest.
Turner violated that policy.
Rolón also mandated more oversight from charter school resource of
