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Cuffing Kids?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Law

This is really quite astonishing, but the cops aren’t making any apologies.

From Pro Liberate:

Last week, 13-year-old Brooklyn middle school student Chelsea Fraser was arrested and dragged away in handcuffs for the purported crime of writing “OK� on her desk. She was seized by four police officers, made to remove her belt, cuffed behind her back, and frog-marched out of the school in front of her friends. Three other students, all boys, were arrested the same day and charged with criminal vandalism for plastering the classroom wall with stickers.

Even if one assumes that the boys were out of control, it seems more than a bit disproportionate to handcuff a student for writing on her desk

Chelsea was taken to the local Precinct station house and detained for three hours, spending most of that time handcuffed to a pole.

There’s a lot more. Jump on over and leave your thoughts.

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One Response to “Cuffing Kids?”

  1. Mike Says:
    April 19th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    For some reason I doubt we’re getting the full story… There had to be some type of criminal act to permit the need to handcuff this kid. If all it was was writing on a desk, then it was way out of line.

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