Police Handcuff 4 Year Old, Make Him Speak To Inmates, Humiliate Him

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In a rather disturbing news story about police misbehavior that is starting to make it’s rounds on the internet, a school had a pre-kindergarten 4 year old child arrested by police and hauled off to jail – seriously – he was handcuffed and taken to the police department and forced to speak to inmates.

In an article titled “Cops Go Ballistic On ‘Misbehaving’ Preschooler 4-Year-Old Handcuffed, Shackled, Hauled Off To Sheriff’s Office” [1] it says:

Officials at a Virginia school turned an allegedly misbehaving 4-year-old preschooler over to law enforcement, where he was put in handcuffs and shackles and ordered to talk to jail inmates, according to a legal group intervening in the case.

The unnamed student, who was enrolled in the pre-kindergarten program at Nathanael Greene Primary School, in Stanardsville, Virginia, was removed from the classroom Oct. 16 after allegedly “becoming agitated and throwing several items onto the floor.”

“That such extreme restraints would even be contemplated in a case such as this points to a failure by those in leadership to provide the proper guidance to school personnel in what forms of restraint and force are appropriate when dealing with students, especially the youngest and most vulnerable,” said a letter sent this week to school district officials by John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which was asked by the mother to intervene.

“It is imperative that Green County Public Schools take steps to assure [the student’s mother] and the rest of the community of parents and concerned citizens that what happened to [the student] will not happen again to him or other students of similar age,” Whitehead said.

The letter said policies should make it clear that handcuffing, shackling and other “excessive restraint techniques are never appropriate when dealing with children of tender years.”

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[1] Cops Go Ballistic On ‘Misbehaving’ Preschooler 4-Year-Old Handcuffed, Shackled, Hauled Off To Sheriff’s Office

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