Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools
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Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.

Video at the link.

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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.

“If you, my friend, are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be very shortly,” the officer told the child.

Earlier that day, the child allegedly spit at a teacher. Now, he was in handcuffs and a police officer was saying he could end up in jail.

That child — a second grader with autism at a North Carolina school — was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. At one point, court records say, the officer put his knee in the child’s back.

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It took me 15 years to realize that I was being sent to the special ed room back in kindergarten at a Catholic school. I just remember one of the nuns beating the everloving shit out of a girl from my class with a yardstick because she was too energetic and apparently our teacher found it disruptive.

      I’m still not sure why the fuck they sent me of all kids down there. That school was awful, and I barely ever spoke to anyone, let alone ran around like a jackass.