Divine Madam M

mamitah:

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wtfwhiteprivilege:

So treating kids like animals seems to be what’s hot in the streets now a days.  A story recently surfaced of a 5 year old who was handcuffed and taken in for psychiatric evaluation.So obviously this kid must have stabbed someone right? Right?

Gray says Michael was agitated when the officer entered the room, and the whole meeting ended with Michael arrested and cuffed, with zip ties on his hands and his feet.

“I was led to believe that Michael saw a police officer and attacked a police officer on sight,” said Gray, adding that that’s not what happened. She knows because she ultimately obtained a copy of the police report.

In it, the officer, Lt. Frank Gordo, says he placed his hand on Michael’s and, “the boy pushed my hand away in a batting motion, pushed papers off the table, and kicked me in the right knee.” When Michael wouldn’t calm down, Gordo cuffed Michael’s hands and feet with zip ties and took the boy to the Stockton Kaiser Psychiatric Hospital in the back of a squad car.

So apparently–a grown police officer got kicked in the knee by a 5 year old and decided it was time to handcuff the kid. I mean, what other choice would he have really? This kid is a MENACE. Being all 5 years old and weighing like a hot 40-50 pounds. This kid needed to be taken down.  Good thing the police was there to help out. Don’t they make cages for 5 year olds? He should have totally put this kid in a cage. You know. Just for safety purposes.

Handcuffing a kid because they kicked you? Genius. I’m gonna need all parents to get on that. Totally rational reaction.

I once represented a 10 year-old kid charged with assault for hitting a 25 year-old in the arm when the adult (not a cop) was trying to detain the kid because he thought the kid had committed vandalism. When I went in to court to talk to the prosecutor for the first time, she looked at the file and immediately remarked “The kid’s lucky we didn’t charge him with attempted murder.”

I chuckled politely at her lame attempt at humor, until she looked at me with absolute, utter seriousness in her eyes. I realized that this grown adult honestly believed that my 75-lb., 4’ client was a mortal threat to the alleged victim.

Of course, since my client was an African-American kid from the east side who might have been up to no good that day, maybe she just figured it was only a matter of time before he did something even worse, and aren’t we all lucky we caught him in time??? She gave me an earful about how horrible all children are these days.

Then she immediately offered to dismiss all but one of the charges (we could pick which one) if he would do six months’ probation.

>.<

 We are not far from killing kids, before they have a chance of becoming potential demonstrators/activists/terrorists/enemies of the state…

What.The.Actual.Fuck! I can’t even gather my words properly. This is such bullshit.