An
Associated Press report 01/26/05
OCALA - Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged
with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent
drawings of stick figures.
The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill
or harm another person, a second-degree felony.
The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive
stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being
stabbed and hung, police said.
"The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of
intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern.
The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and
contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested
the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.
They were also suspended from school.
One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and
"holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The
figures were identified by written names or initials.
Another drawing showed a stick figure hanging, tears falling from his eyes,
with two other stick figures standing below him. Other pieces of scrap paper
listed misspelled profanities and the initials of the boy who was allegedly
threatened.
Parents of both of the arrested boys said they thought the boys should be
punished by the school and families, not the legal system.
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Webservant's Opinion
You know, the world
is getting a lot crazier every day. Kids are going to be kids! The
fact that these two boys were enrolled into a "special class" is irrelevant to
the whole matter. Kids say and do the darndest things.
I don't think there's a normal kid our there that doesn't think or do something
wild and crazy every day. I can't tell you how many times in my life that
I've heard kids threaten to kill each other while playing, while chasing each
other with sticks or some sharp instrument of torture.
It's normal folks,
kids fight and repeat what they see on TV. If society is going to freak
out and have third-graders arrested, then maybe TV programs promoting violence
should be illegal. Of course, that would eliminate a substantial portion
of prime-time TV. Then again, before TV ever came along, kids were still
play fighting with each other (and oftentimes it escalated into real fighting).
This is what children do, they love to rough-house and destroy everything in
site. Though try as they may to prevent conflict amongst their children,
parents are going to be referees at times.
When I was
a kid growing up on Chicago's north side in the 1970's, we used to play cops and
robbers with toy GUNS. We used to spray paint them black to make them look
more real. They were cap guns with loud exploding caps that sounded just
like a real gun. Can you imagine? No one ever feared that the guns
they were real. We never feared a drive-by shooting back then. We
had never even heard of a drive by shooting.
Then two decades later, drive
by shootings were commonplace throughout Chicago (including the neighborhood I
had grown up in). Spray paint is now illegal in Chicago. Drug
dealing is nearly everywhere in Chicago.
According to an Chicago SunTimes article a couple years back, Chicago's street
gangs bring in over $500,000,000 a year in illegal drug sales. My
how things have changed for the worse...much worse. It is for this very
reason we finally moved away from Chicago.
When our car was stolen and
destroyed, we knew it was time to move on. Drive-by shootings, murders,
gangs, prostitution, pollution, heavy traffic...not the best place to raise a
family. Did you know that the Chicago river is so polluted that there is
actually a city ordinance forbidding people from wading their hands or feet in
the water. In the spring of 2004, Chicago failed 6 standardized air
quality tests, which causes the deaths of over 50,000 Chicagoans a year from
respiratory diseases and ailments. We are destroying the planet. Add
to this this paranoia of society today and you've got a real mess.
When I was a kid, we used to LOVE
fireworks. The louder the boom the better. Although M-80
firecrackers were illegal when I was growing up, it seemed that everyone had
them on the fourth of July. You didn't think twice back then about
lighting off a cherry bomb or an M-80. Today, believe it or not, lighting
such a device makes you guilty of a felony crime. A man lit one off near
downtown Chicago and they called the firework a "bomb."
A bomb?
Hardly. You can't light off the big fireworks anymore. Kids can't
play with toy guns anymore without the risk of being killed by a vigilant or
police officer. A first-grade boy was arrested and taken down to the
police station for pointing a chicken finger at his teacher and saying "Pow!"
Another kindergarten boy was charged with sexual harassment for lifting the
dress of a fellow classmate. Have we lost our marbles in society?
Yes, apparently so. Kids can't even draw pictures anymore.
Kids draw guns and people getting
hurt, that's what they like to do. Children like gummy worms and rubber
spiders, and all kinds of gross stuff. The PSYCHO-logists have brainwashed
society into believing that there is something wrong with such children.
Regardless of what they claim, children across America are being psychologically
evaluated for simply being kids. I remember when mass murderer Jeffery
Dalmer's father was interviewed. The father said that his boy used to like
to play with dead animals. Big deal, boys do that.
I knew a man who
shot a deer while hunting. He cut off the deer's head and placed it up on
his garage roof to rot (so months later he could retrieve the deer skull for a
souvenir). Was he mentally deranged? No, he was your typical country
guy. I wouldn't have done it, but that's me... having grown up in the big
city (I'm not a hunter). Many people in the cities of America thinks guns
are evil and food comes from the grocery store.
Well, it doesn't work that
way folks. Children are increasingly being forced to grow up in a JUNGLE,
a jungle of paranoid and misinformed adults who have lost touch with reality.
It is a jungle out there! Sadly, parents need to educate their children to
be very careful what they do and say nowadays (or some nut case may go ballistic
and turn them into the authorities for being a kid).
END
Skateboarding
Children Arrested in Massachusetts
UPI | August 11 2004
WHITMAN, Mass., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The parents of two boys in Whitman, Mass.,
are upset their kids were arrested and shackled by police for illegal
skateboarding.
The parents say the boys were shackled before being taken to a juvenile
court, the Boston Herald reported Wednesday.
"It's absurd," Stephanie Saltzman said. "My son is 12 years old and all he
was doing is skateboarding. I mean, you gotta be kidding me."
Saltzman's son, Josh, and 14-year-old neighbor, Ryan Maxwell, were arrested
last week when a police officer caught them skateboarding on a street.
A town bylaw prohibits using skateboards or other devices to "coast or
slide" along public streets.
Town officials did not comment but said police would not arrest kids unless
their actions were more severe. The arresting officer declined comment.
The boys said they were only skateboarding in front of their homes and they
complied with the officer without protest.
The boys have been ordered to perform 15 hours of community service before
Nov. 1.
END
7-Year
old arrested, handcuffed, finger-printed for riding dirt bike on city street
BALTIMORE - Gerard Mungo Jr. starts to cry when he tells the story
of his arrest by the Baltimore City police. Since he was handcuffed,
photographed for a mug shot and fingerprinted Tuesday afternoon — all for
allegedly sitting on a dirt bike on a sidewalk — Gerard said he is afraid to
talk about it.
“They scared
me,” he said, before breaking down in tears.
Gerard, who
just turned 7 in February, was pulled off the dirt bike he sat on — with the
motor off — by police while waiting for his father to pick him up in East
Baltimore, according to his mother, Likisa Dinkins. Dinkins said she was
incensed after the police pulled Gerard up by his collar and dragged him off
the bike.
Seven-year
old Gerard Mungo Jr. sits back on his living room couch after telling the
story of his arrest by the Baltimore City Police Department.
“I told them
to let go of my baby,” she said. “Since when do you pull a 7-year-old child
by his neck and drag him?
“It broke my
heart the way they were treating him.”
Dinkins said
she called for a police supervisor to intervene, but after he arrived,
Dinkins said, he started scolding her son.
“The started
yelling at him, ‘Do you know what you did wrong, son?’” she said. “He was so
scared he ran upstairs.”
After police
confiscated the dirt bike, Dinkins said, the police said her son was under
arrest.
“They put his
hands behind his back and put him in black metal handcuffs. They handcuffed
a 7-year-old child,” she said. “I cannot believe they did this to a child.”
Gerard was
brought to the Eastern District station house, where he was cuffed to a
bench, then interrogated, he told The Examiner.
“They asked
about my mother,” he said.
Charging
documents state that Gerard was charged with riding a dirt bike on city
streets. He was released into the custody of his parents after being
fingerprinted and photographed.
Mayor Sheila
Dixon said she was concerned about the arrest.
“I am very
concerned about what I am hearing. As a mother and as a parent, I am
bothered by it,” she said. “I will get to the bottom of this.”
Police
officials said they did not have enough information on the arrest to comment
before press time.
Dinkins’ only
concern is for her son’s well-being.
“This has
changed his life,” she said. “He’ll never be the same.”
SOURCE:
Seven year old Black Child Arrested
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Police State U.S.A.
Is Your Family Next?
DCFS
Monsters
The
fast becoming prison state government
wants to play Russian roulette with our children...
OCALA - Two
third-graders arrested on felony
charges of making threatening drawings of a classmate in their
special education class at Wyomina Park Elementary School will avoid
criminal prosecution under a plan offered by the State Attorney's Office.