3rd grdr handcuffed, jailed, WA will continue cuffing

How many folks on this NG ever remember seeing children in the THIRD GRADE
handcuffed, and taken to jail?

Or for that seeing any students handcuffed?

Disempowerment of parents by the state has contributed to an unwholesome
atmosphere.




LubbockOnline.com

Third-grader arrested for disorderly conduct
08/29/04
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories...82904074.shtml


Sunday, August 29, 2004
Third-grader arrested for disorderly conduct

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — An Espanola third-grader was handcuffed and arrested
by police after hitting another student with a basketball, the child's
mother and her lawyer say.

"The Legislature never envisioned that the law would be used to lock an
8-year-old in any jail, especially an adult jail," attorney Sheri Raphaelson
said.

"This is the most egregious example of poor judgment by police that I've
ever seen in my 15 years of practicing law," she said.

According to a juvenile citation for disorderly conduct, Jerry Trujillo was
arrested Thursday and booked into the Espanola jail after he "got out of
control and refused to go back to class."

Police Chief Richard Guillen, who was not at work Thursday, said he had few
details but that officers "couldn't deal with" the boy before taking him
into custody.

He said he had conflicting accounts of where the boy was held and for how
long.

It's illegal to keep a juvenile at an adult facility.

Espanola school Superintendent Vernon Jaramillo said the incident was being
investigated. He expected a report from the school's principal, Corinne
Salazar.

The boy's mother, Angelica Esquibel, said he was sent to the school office
Thursday when he raised his voice to a teacher after hitting another child
with the basketball.

Esquibel, who works next door to the school, said she was called to the
office, and that Jerry began crying and saying he wanted to go home.
She said a school counselor wanted him to return to class, and that when the
boy ran outside and started crying louder, the counselor told him if he
wasn't going to be in school, she was going to call police.

The counselor told him officers would handcuff him and put him in a cell
"until he changes his attitude," Esquibel said.

Guillen said he'd been told the mother agreed police should be called. She
said she told school officials not to call them.

Two officers tried to tell Jerry to go back to class and told him he had a
choice — class or jail, Esquibel said. When the boy got upset and loud, they
handcuffed him, she said.

The police report says Jerry was arrested, taken to jail, booked and
released to his parents.

Esquibel said that when she arrived at the police station, he was standing
against a wall, crying.

He told her he was placed "in a dark room with a window, a metal toilet and
a metal sink," and that inmates banged on the window "saying they were going
to get him and cussing," she said. He said officers told him to stop crying
or they'd let the inmates get him, she said.

And this ....

Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:05 PM

Washington school district decides to continue using handcuffs

KATU 2 - Portland, Oregonhttp://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=70054

Washington school district decides to continue using handcuffs

KENT, WASH. - The Kent School Board has decided that security officers
with the district may continue to use handcuffs when restraining students.

The board's decision ignores a recommendation of an independent review
panel that said the policy should be abandoned.

The panel was appointed by Superintendent Barbara Grohe in response to
allegations that guards have used excessive force in disciplining black
students.

Grohe later questioned the panel's recommendation and the possible
consequences if officers waited for police to arrive.

Parents of 14 black children have filed complaints against the school
district seeking a total of $46 million in damages.

They claim security officers pulled hair, twisted arms and handcuffed
students as young as 11.

The Seattle chapter of the NAACP has called for Grohe's resignation.