More disgusting police state tactics

[dantan]

I thought the US likes to say that it beat Hitler? For what? For freedom and democracy?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/15/autistic-boy-10-handcuffed-detained-police/

You should see the photos where this tiny boy is dwarfed by the stormtroopers grabbing him on the left and right. It shouldn't take more than an IQ of 60 to determine that he is no threat and doesn't need to be handcuffed, but apparently the stormtroopers who arrested him have IQs below that.

Even the Gestapo didn't do this to blond and blue eyed kids.

[fanpeople]

I was arrested when i was 14 cops didnt hand cuff me, they didnt put me in a cell either. They just made me sit at one of the spare office cubicles.

When my dad finally arrived i heard them talking oitside the office and one policeman was saying to my father that they didnt want to expose me to the people that end up in lockup on a Saturday night.

So i get it, the hand cuff thing probebly not necessary.

But at the same time there was a psycho at my school that would break **** and lose his ****ing mind, if the cops came to arrest him i would deem them ****ing crazy not to restrain him with handcuffs.

I wonder how many times this kid has lost it and hit staff. I kinda have a feeling that what the mother says may be mothers perspective. I kinda get the feeling that it might be a bit of a reguar occurance and the school had enough thus called the police.

I guess its a judgement call that needs to be made by the officer as it is their risk.

I guess my personal opinion would be that although it seems unnecessary in this case ( and it probebly is), it should be up to the cop to decide and the default should be cuffs on. So anything other then that should be considered a
curtosy.

In the end, I don't see why they called him to school to be arrested. That seems ****ing retarded in the first place. Either send cops to the house to speak with mother and ask her to bring kid to station or call them up and ask mother to bring child to station. There is no real need for a public display like that it seems irresponsible on the schools part, almost as if they were trying to make a scene as a warning to other kids.

[dante]

Sentience is disgusting.

[tp4tissue]

Sentience is disgusting.

hahaha,  i think the issue for general humans is bandwidth and storage limitation of each node.

Humans as a collective is pretty resourceful and smart,  but because we don't have very good interhuman bandwidth.. we lack the ability to cohesively affect change.

And the lack of storage is problematic because we can't remember with great accuracy.

[Leslieann]

You should see the photos where this tiny boy is dwarfed by the stormtroopers grabbing him on the left and right. It shouldn't take more than an IQ of 60 to determine that he is no threat and doesn't need to be handcuffed, but apparently the stormtroopers who arrested him have IQs below that.

I work for quite a few parents with autistic kids and know some of them quite well.

Honestly, that was probably as much for the kid's safety as it was for the officers, they can get extremely agitated very quickly, and with that adrenaline going they can have more in common with someone on PCP than a small child. I don't like seeing kids in cuffs either, but in this case, you aren't dealing with normal person who can control themselves, much less their emotions, or will always even listen to commands from authority.

Which even this kid's mom even admits (from the linked article).
"[John Benji] is such a sweetie when he is in a supportive loving environment," his mother wrote on Facebook. "Has manners, says yes mame thank you and please. When he is triggered he can be unruly to say the least.