Lawsuit alleges police harassed, assaulted 5-year-old boy

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/lawsuit-alleges-police-harassed-assaulted-5-year-old-boy/

A Silver Spring family is suing the county and the school district after they say their 5-year-old son was assaulted and harassed by officers for walking away from class last year.

In the lawsuit, Shanta Grant alleges that her son was not properly supervised in his kindergarten class on Jan. 14, 2020, and he “walked out of” East Silver Spring Elementary School.

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When the two officers — Kevin Christmon and Dionne Holliday — found the boy, they were immediately angry, yelling at him and “forcefully grabbing” his arm, the lawsuit alleges.

When the boy’s crying intensified in the police car, Christmon allegedly said, “You better cut that out” and Holliday asked, “Does your Mama spank you? … She’s going to spank you today,” according to court records. The officers allegedly chastised the boy throughout the ride and after returning to the school. They told him they “would have been beaten nine times” if they had left school, and, “you are bad.”

[abqtommy]

1. Defund these corrupt and dangerous police people, and all like them!

[RKP5637]

2. Somehow, they need to be separated out from the good ones. n/t

[ret5hd]

3. You mean the ones that...

refuse to avert their eyes from their corrupt fellow officers and turn them in to Internal Affairs and agree to testify against them?

I think the country might need more than three police officers.

Just sayin’.

[RKP5637]

4. Yeah, it's the damn police unions that create so many problems getting rid of the bad ones. n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. "Somehow."

[procon]

5. Men who are so weak that they need to bully a

5 year old to feel big and brave shouldn't be anywhere near a gun or hold positions of authority.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. What Pablo Casals said bears repeating.

“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two makes four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all of the world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed there has never been another child like you. And look at your body — what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move! You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.” — Pablo Casals

[catrose]

8. I love Casals forever because of quotes like that.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. JFK thought the world of him...

He was planning to present him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.



Dear Maestro Casals,

Mrs. Kennedy and I can never express our full appreciation for what you did last night… It was an evening that made us feel humble and it was an evening that gave inspiration and encouragement to lovers of music throughout this country.

Details: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/10/pablo-casals-joys-and-sorrows-jfk/

Thank you, catrose! I, too, love Casals.

[catrose]

12. Casals was my first example that one can be an artist and a decent (or great) person too.

My teacher was a student of Casals, so I considered him a musical grandfather.

[catrose]

10. On my child's first day of school, more than 3 decades ago now

I watched him line up and march into the school building with the other children. To work off the lump in my throat, I hung around and took photos of the school. After a few minutes, a little girl who had been in the kindergarten line came out the side door by herself, crying. There being no one around but me and her, I went up to her, talked to her gently, led her back inside to the kindergarten room, and turned her over to the teacher or aide. Everyone was kind and gentle. No one made a fuss, and maybe she didn't grow up traumatized by her first day of school, unlike this kid.

This story is a great argument for investing security funds in another kind of professional.