5 year old girl handcuffed by cops, !!!!!!!!!! |
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| *nightmare4taki* |
 Apr 23 2005, 06:09 PM
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (April 23) - An attorney says he plans legal action against police officers who handcuffed an unruly 5-year-old girl after she acted up in her kindergarten class.
A video camera, which was rolling March 14 as part of a classroom self-improvement exercise, captured images of the girl tearing papers off a bulletin board, climbing on a table and punching an assistant principal before police were called to Fairmount Park Elementary. Then it shows the child appearing to calm down before three officers approach, pin her arms behind her back and put on handcuffs as she screams, "No!'' Largo lawyer John Trevena, who provided the tape to the media this week after obtaining it from police, says the officers went too far. "The image itself will be seared into people's minds when you have three police officers bending a child over a table and forcibly handcuffing her,'' said Trevena, who represents the girl's mother, Inga Akins. "It's incomprehensible ... There was no need for that,'' he added. ABC News The tape shows the girl lashing out at a school employee. Police declined to comment, citing an official complaint by Akins that has sparked an investigation by the supervisor of the four officers who were present. Two are new officers who were being trained that day. Spokesman Bill Proffitt said the investigation would be complete in about two weeks and the findings would be made public. The 30-minute tape shows assistant principal Nicole Dibenedetto trying repeatedly to calm down the girl, who ignores her commands and begins punching her. The child's mother was called but wasn't able to immediately come to the school. After being placed in the back of a police cruiser, police released the girl to her mother after prosecutors informed them they wouldn't bring charges against a 5-year-old. 04-23-05 15:05 EDT So what do you guys think? Should this girl have been arrested. |
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Apr 23 2005, 06:13 PM
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 dripping destruction  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
little kids think they can do anything cus they're little...
i don't see why handcuffs shouldn't have been used... although: i don't think this is for entertainment... |
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Apr 23 2005, 06:15 PM
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 This is all my luck, it's all I got. Group: Member Posts: 1,373 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 76,532 |
Those cops went to far. She is freaking 5 years old. Even though its weird that she went all crazy but i still dont thik the cops should of handcuffed her...
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Apr 23 2005, 06:16 PM
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omg wow
is this more proof that little kids are getting worse and worse with every generation? |
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| *nightmare4taki* |
Apr 23 2005, 06:16 PM
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I think she just needed a paddling.
QUOTE(JlIaTMK @ Apr 23 2005, 5:16 PM) omg wow is this more proof that little kids are getting worse and worse with every generation?  I agree |
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Apr 23 2005, 06:20 PM
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This is all my luck, it's all I got. Group: Member Posts: 1,373 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 76,532 |
QUOTE(JlIaTMK @ Apr 23 2005, 3:16 PM) omg wow is this more proof that little kids are getting worse and worse with every generation? Hmmm. I agree with this. Little kids are getting worse every day. |
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Apr 23 2005, 06:44 PM
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 A.K.A. Simplicityxx Group: Member Posts: 1,878 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 56,813 |
I think arresting a 5 year old is getting a little too far, but I do agree that kids are just getting worse and worse. But it is part of the parents' fault on how their kids turn out.
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Apr 23 2005, 06:45 PM
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wow....she got it bad....when i was 6 they just came and knocked on my door and said dont do it again and then i had to go to the merril lynch (juvinial court)
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Apr 23 2005, 06:48 PM
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 HAAAAAAAA. Group: Member Posts: 4,472 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,068 |
I dunno. There's a good and bad side of it.
The good side: This will probably scare other little children from doing anything like that 5 year old girl did. The bad side: The cops went too far. |
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| *mona lisa* |
Apr 23 2005, 06:49 PM
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It's not going too far. She's worse than some unruly teenagers, in fact. If putting handcuffs on her was the only way to calm her down or keep her hands down actually, so be it. I feel bad for her parents. Actually, no I don't. It's partly their fault she acts like that.
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Apr 23 2005, 06:53 PM
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 Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
The cops should have fine the parents instead of cuffing the brat and bringing trouble on themselves.
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Apr 23 2005, 06:53 PM
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Physically harassing a school official will get you expelled.. I don't think the officers really went too far. What else were they suppose to do? Handcuffing her would be the same thing as holding her down.
I wonder who videotaped it. |
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| *mzkandi* |
Apr 23 2005, 06:56 PM
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ST. PETE!! Thats near where I stay (Tampa, fl) She is just five years old, I really dont think the handcuffs were needed, they went a lil to far with that.
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Apr 23 2005, 07:04 PM
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yeah she's five years old. But punching people in the face doesn't necessarily make her innocent.. yea?
Her actions are simply screaming for some anger management. =/ this is what i would call... either "lack of home education" or "counsellor needed" |
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Apr 23 2005, 07:06 PM
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Handcuffs are a form of physical restraint. It's not to hurt people- it's to subdue them. It hurts if you thrash around, so it's meant to stop people from doing that. Plus, she was physically hurting a school official. So I personally don't think it was an excess of force.
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| *jooleeah* |
Apr 23 2005, 07:09 PM
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It's not the police's fault that the girl misbehaved. I personally think handcuffing her is better than putting her down to the floor like most policemen would do to teenagers being violent.
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Apr 23 2005, 07:11 PM
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i dont think handcuffs was really necesarry(sp?)
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Apr 23 2005, 07:16 PM
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I for one am happy they handcuffed that little bastard. You should of seen how crazy and tough she thought she was until she saw the cops walk in.
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Apr 23 2005, 07:23 PM
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oh jeez. violent kids these days.
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Apr 23 2005, 07:28 PM
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stupid kids these days. she deserved it. its not like she actually went to jail or got fined..
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Apr 23 2005, 07:34 PM
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imo, the cops went too far. but i loathe little kids like that. she had it coming i guess. ;x but if i was a relative of hers, i'd probably be really upset about it.
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Apr 23 2005, 07:53 PM
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 The Bone Collector Group: Member Posts: 2,860 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 44,162 |
Instead of handcuffing her, give her a timeout. Put her into a room until she calms down. (:
The cops did go to far. Kids do get these kind of tantrums. |
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Apr 23 2005, 07:56 PM
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that's crayzee ..
they should have just calmed her down .. or just punish her .. handcuffing a little girl ?? .. gosh that's too extreme |
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Apr 23 2005, 07:59 PM
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I think arresting her was going a little bit too far but the kid needs some discipline. kids these days think they can do whatever.
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Apr 23 2005, 08:04 PM
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They just used the handcuffs to restrain her from hitting the officers, I don't think they went too far with the handcuffs; they could've used those plastic zip-tie handcuffs though. Or they could've just called the girl's parents.
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