From [HERE] and [HERE] A Illinois police department is standing behind its decision to arrest an 8-year-old Black learning disabled student. The girl was handcuffed at her Alton school on Tuesday. Her guardian says he’s outraged his daughter was treated like a criminal. 8-year-old Jmiyha Rickman was hauled off in the back of a police car from school to the Alton Police Department and was held for nearly two hours.

Police say they had no choice after Rickman took a swing at a school resource officer and tore up two classrooms. She appears to weigh less than 70lbs. 

Nehemiah Keeton, Rickman’s uncle and guardian, says she is autistic and suffers from separation anxiety and depression. Apparently then she is a student with a disability within the meaning of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Under this law she is entitled a number of rights and procedural protections that may have been violated by police and the school. For one thing, under the Act a student should not be punished for behavior that is linked to her disability. [MORE]  

Such rights are a bump in the road for racist/white supremacist police officers and school administrators who have the goal of seeking the greater confinement of non-white children. [MORE] and [MORE]. At any rate, among other things, the school & police may be also subject to liability under 42 USC 1983 for violating her IDEA rights. 

On Tuesday morning, he got a phone call from Love Joy Elementary School in Alton to pick her up because she was having a tantrum.  He says this has happened several times before. Keeton was on his way to the school when he got a phone call from police saying Rickman was in custody. Rickman says her hands and feet were handcuffed and had a belt around her waist.