Hispanic Girl handcuffed and arrested at school for fight with girl
Monday, February 7, 2005 at 05:26AM
TheSpook
It started as a shoving incident, and then one of the two girls was
suspended for two days. But then parents of the girl who wasn't
suspended simply were not satisfied with Cy-Fair's punishment so they
filed a complaint and had the other student arrested. "I don't know
what kind of games these guys are playing but you don't do that to an
11-year-old girl," said said W.R. Morris of Hispanic Policy Action. The
11-year-old girl was arrested, handcuffed, photographed and
fingerprinted after she was picked up from Walker Elementary. She and
her mom say there had been a shoving incident last week. She says the
other girl wound up with a bloody nose, that she was suspended for two
days and thought it would end there. "This girl has never been in
trouble," Morris of said. "At an administrative meeting the little girl
agreed that she had pushed her first and now she's on the receiving end
of all this." The fifth-grader told us what the deputy constable did
when she was arrested. "They made me put my hands behind my back and
then they put those things on me," she recalled. "I had to walk out of
school right next to the car and they handcuffed me next to the car and
then went inside the car." The mom said her daughter was shocked that
officers actually arrested and handcuffed her over the shoving incident
that resulted in a bloody nose to the other student. "Procedurally,
it's something we try to stay away from, but for the safety of the
officer and the child, handcuffs are a requirement by department
policy," said Lt .Tim Cannon with Precinct 4. KTRK legal analyst Joel
Androphy questions why the girl was arrested and handcuffed. "The
officers decide who's handcuffed and who's arrested," Androphy
explained. "You don't arrest an 11-year-old girl period. This girl's
not charged with murder, with some heinous felony. She's not a danger
and that will be clearly established later." The 11-year old girl was
charged with a class A misdemeanor. A juvenile judge will assess the
punishment. [more] and [more]
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