Schools across the US are relying more and more on the police to enforce pupils into compliance instead of training staff and using common sense.
Earlier this week a 5th grade autistic boy from Texas was arrested for the crime of “brandishing an imaginary rifle.”
12-year-old David Sims who attends Conroe Independent School District’s Bozman Intermediate school, was handcuffed and dragged away by police and charged for pretending his hand was a gun.
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The Free Thought Project reports: The boy’s actions apparently threatened his art teacher who then called the police.
“She (CISD Police Officer) just put handcuffs on me and told me I need to go with her,” David told Fox 26.
“They just said, ‘We don’t tolerate that. We take it as a threat.’ A threat? He didn’t threaten anyone. He didn’t do anything but play,” said Amy Sims, David’s mother.’
Sims explained that she was never notified of her son’s arrest until after he’d been booked. Sims noted that like many kids with autism, her son doesn’t understand that playing make believe guns on campus has become inappropriate behavior.
“Being put in handcuffs, not knowing what he did wrong, I could have had a talk with him and told him look, I know you like to play guns, but you can’t do it in school,” said Amy Sims.
Indeed, that is all that should have happened. However, this little boy is now facing criminal charges instead.
David was held for hours at the juvenile detention center on Monday wondering what it was that he did wrong.
According to Montgomery County Attorney, J.D. Lambright, the autistic child allegedly made a threat along with the make believe rifle. However, his mother disagrees.
Lambright told Fox 26 that because of David’s mental disability, he may be able to beat the charges.
“We want to get them turned around and on the right path,” Lambright said, implying that playing with an imaginary gun is how kids apparently get led astray.
Lambright explained that police are responding to similar incidents all across the district.
“Right after the Florida incident we were getting two a day, three a day and it wasn’t isolated to any particular school. We have six school districts in Montgomery County and they were coming in across the County,” said Lambright.
Although the school would not comment on this specific case, they did release a statement saying, “Situations involving students with special needs are responded to with consideration for each unique need.”
David’s mother believes that her son is certainly getting this special treatment, however, she calls it the discriminatory kind.
“Because he’s disabled, they automatically think he’s got something mental, so he might go shoot up a school,” said Amy Sims.
As for David, he will not be allowed back at the school and he must attend an alternative disciplinary school for the rest of the year.
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