Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.

“Don’t make a wrong move,” the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. “Period.”

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject’s thin wrists.

“Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts,” the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject’s small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1021·
    6 months ago

    “If you, my friend, are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be very shortly,” the officer told the child.  Earlier that day, the child allegedly spit at a teacher. Now, he was in handcuffs and a police officer was saying he could end up in jail.  That child — a second grader with autism at a North Carolina school — was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. At one point, court records say, the officer put his knee in the child’s back.

    Jesus christ that is so fucking disgusting. What kind of line is that? Does he think he’s in a movie or something? Cops literally live in an alternate reality where they’re some kind of action heros or something as they physically assault second graders with autism and threaten them with institutionalization.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      Now, he was in handcuffs and a police officer was saying he could end up in jail. That child — a second grader with autism at a North Carolina school — was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. At one point, court records say, the officer put his knee in the child’s back.

      If that was my child, the rest of my days would be spent in pursuit of consequences for that policeman.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      640·
      6 months ago

      On extreme to another. Teachers have no control over the class anymore because of kids that just do whatever they want, so now we’re to the other extreme… police arresting a 7 year old kid.

      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        28·
        6 months ago

        It would sure help a lot if we would sufficiently fund education programs so that class sizes weren’t massive and teachers weren’t wildly overstretched. Children are the same as they always have been, plus a little early life trauma from the pandemic and the rising cost of living crisis.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Children are the same as they always have been

          Arguably more docile and broken than ever before, given the current administrative policies. Kids used to do all sorts of crazy shit. Now everyone is terrified in to obedience from day one.

          But its never enough. We whip kids until they spit at us, and then we cage them or shoot them.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          212·
          6 months ago

          Kids are being raised by kids more than ever(and I don’t mean age wise) I %100 agree we need more teachers, better pay for them, and smaller class sizes, but we are at the other extreme.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Teachers have no control over the class anymore

        Increased class sizes. Reduced funding. More obnoxious administrative interference. Standardized test after standardized test.

        But hey, maybe its the kids’ fault.

        Incidentally, the Superindendent of HISD just fired all the janitors in the district. So now that’s on the teachers’ heads too.