Kindergarten cop? 6-year-old arrested in
GA school for 'assault'
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:41
A Georgia
police chief defended the handcuffing of a six-year-old girl, who was having a
temper tantrum in her kindergarten class.
Milledgeville
kindergartner Salecia Johnson is reported to have torn items off the walls and
thrown furniture. The police report also said she knocked down a shelf that
injured the principle.
The officer
tried to calm Salecia, according
to The Washington Post, but she resisted and was handcuffed.
“Our policy
is that any detainee unreported to our station in a patrol vehicle is to be
handcuffed in the back,” Milledgeville Chief of Police Dray Swicord is quoted
as saying
in The Daily Mail. “There is no age discrimination on that rule.”
The little
girl was taken down to the police station and charged with simple assault and
damage to property, according
to 13WMAZ.
Due to her
age, she will not have to go to court. Salecia’s family is outraged by the
measures the police took to subdue her and is demanding action.
“Call the
police? Is that the first step?” Salecia’s aunt, Candance Ruff questioned in
The Daily Mail. “Or is there any other kind of
intervention that can be taken to help that child?”
intervention that can be taken to help that child?”
Ruff went on
to add that while Salecia might have misbehaved, she didn’t misbehave to the
point that handcuffing was warranted.
The Salecia also said that the handcuffs were “really tight” and that
they “really hurt her wrists,” according to the Associated Press via
ajc.com
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