Defunding / abolishing school police (consolidated thread)

Some educators of color resist push for police-free schools

School districts nationwide are working to remove police officers from campuses, but some Black and Indigenous educational leaders are resisting the push prompted by the national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality. Some say the system is hamstrung by a complicated mix of police response policies and a lack of support for alternative programs, which plays a role in students of color being disproportionately punished and arrested — the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. Some support individual officers skilled at working with students. Others say they need to learn more as activists urge change. Cities from Portland, Oregon, to Denver to ...

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https://www.mariettatimes.com/wire/?ID=117161

 

Fight for police-free schools has been years in the making

The group of protesters started out small, just a handful of students who told officials at school board meetings why they wanted police out of Madison, Wisconsin, schools. Over four years, their numbers grew but not their results. So they took to yelling from the audience and making emotional pleas about how police make students, especially those of color, feel unsafe. But officers remained at four high schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District until George Floyd's death by Minneapolis police ushered in a national reckoning over police brutality and racial injustice. That's when the school board president, who had ...

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https://www.readingeagle.com/news/p...cle_460d8465-c56d-5457-b195-1083640d336d.html

 

Young activist dies after being shot in West Rogers Park. ‘We can honor him by continuing the call to end gun violence.'

A 17-year-old activist who called to remove in-school police officers died Sunday morning after he was shot two days earlier. Caleb Reed, a Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) leader and student at Mather High School, was shot about 1 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of West Granville Avenue in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side, according to Chicago police. Officers found Reed lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He was taken to AMITA Health St. Francis Hospital Evanston in critical condition. Reed was pronounced dead at 6:39 a.m. Sunday ...

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...fter-shooting-in-west-rogers-park/ar-BB17uG65

 

School resource officer position eliminated in Kittery

The town’s school district will not employ a school resource officer for the upcoming year following a hairline vote by the School Committee Tuesday night. A motion to approve the memorandum of agreement with the Police Department for School Resource Officer Jay Durgin’s services failed with a 3-3 tie, with Chair Julie Dow abstaining because Durgin is her brother. The vote came two weeks after a handful of community members wrote letters to the School Committee requesting the removal of police presence from Kittery schools. The news prompted polarizing discussions on town Facebook pages, as well as a competing petition. ...

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https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200805/school-resource-officer-position-eliminated-in-kittery

 

Some educators of color resist push for police-free schools

School districts nationwide are working to remove police officers from campuses, but some Black and Indigenous educational leaders are resisting the push prompted by the national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality. Some say the system is hamstrung by a complicated mix of police response policies and a lack of support for alternative programs, which plays a role in students of color being disproportionately punished and arrested — the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. Some support individual officers skilled at working with students. Others say they need to learn more as activists urge change. Cities from Portland, Oregon, to Denver to ...

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https://www.dailysentinel.com/apna/us/article_a86b5fa1-4e4f-57de-be09-70cebfc7c23e.html

 

Some educators of color resist push for police-free schools

School districts nationwide are working to remove police officers from campuses, but some Black and Indigenous educational leaders are resisting the push prompted by the national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality. Some say the system is hamstrung by a complicated mix of police response policies and a lack of support for alternative programs, which plays a role in students of color being disproportionately punished and arrested — the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. Some support individual officers skilled at working with students. Others say they need to learn more as activists urge change. Cities from Portland, Oregon, to Denver to ...

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https://www.readingeagle.com/news/p...cle_1ee782fc-d0a5-558c-b7c7-5c38c65206e2.html

 

6 Ways a Criminal Record is Affecting Your Life

1. Searching for jobst
2. Inability to travel
3. Access to foreign visas
4. Insurance
5. Housing
6. Custody

Having a criminal record can make many things substantially hard to do. It puts various limitations on your life. Even if you have only one small offense on your back, it could still greatly impact you and your future. Some of the things that having a criminal record will get you are obvious, but many of them might surprise you. Did you know that you could potentially be restricted to travel or immigrate to other countries? That is just one of the many difficulties you could face after you finished serving your time. Still, the most important thing is to ...

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https://foreignpolicyi.org/criminal-record-affecting-life/

 

1 pig named:

• Michael Malgrat

And the moron masquerading as the Key West police chief, Sean T. Brandenburg, said that his officers did not do anything wrong: “Based on the report, standard operating procedures were followed."

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Video emerges of Key West police trying to handcuff an 8-year-old boy

A video emerged Monday from a 2018 incident showing police officers in Key West trying to handcuff a crying 8-year-old boy after an incident at his elementary school. According to the arrest report from the Dec. 14, 2018, case, police were called to his school, Gerald Adams Elementary, after he punched a teacher in the chest. Officers arrested the child, who was not named in the report because of his age, on a felony battery charge. The status of the case was not immediately known. The video was posted on the Twitter account of Tallahassee civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump. ...

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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article244849592.html

 

Chicago schools vote to slash police officer budget in half

The Chicago Public School District will decrease spending for police officers in schools from $33 million to $15 million, according to a budget released Monday. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the reduction is partially due to officers not working in school during remote learning days. Police officers in schools have become the subject of debate following a national reconsideration of police programs following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. Some say the system plays a role in students of color being disproportionately punished and arrested. However, following a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a national effort was ...

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https://www.mystateline.com/news/na...-vote-to-slash-police-officer-budget-in-half/

 

Video Shows Key West Police Arrest 8-Year-Old Who is Too Small For Cuffs

A video of Key West police officers arresting an 8-year-old boy is getting criticism after attorney Ben Crump posted the video to his Twitter page. According to Crump, the boy is special needs. The recording was from Dec. 14, 2018, and shows a Key West cop try to cuff the child after telling him he’s going to jail. When the officer attempts to cuff him he and his partner realize the boy’s wrists are too small so they have him put his arms in front of his body as he walks out of his school with the officers toward their ...

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https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/video-key-west-police-arrest-child/

 

Video Shows Florida Police Officers Handcuffing 8-Year-Old Boy

A video of cops arresting and handcuffing an 8-year-old boy in Florida is causing a stir online. Although the incident took place on Dec. 14, 2018, the footage began circulating on social media on Monday, which resulted in an uproar from the public about the police officers' decision to handcuff the unnamed child. TMZ reports that the authorities were called to Gerald Adams Elementary in Key West after the child in the video allegedly punched a teacher in the chest. The boy was then arrested on a felony battery charge. According to the police report, the incident started over the ...

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https://www.ibtimes.com/video-shows-florida-police-officers-handcuffing-8-year-old-boy-3025892

 

Video shows cops arresting crying boy, 8, in elementary school

• On Monday video footage from a shocking 2018 incident where three police officers arrested a crying eight-year-old boy in Key West, Florida emerged
• The officers arrested the boy after he allegedly punched a teacher in the chest and threatened 'My mom is going to beat you’re a**'
• The boy cried as cops tried to put handcuffs on him, but they didn't fit
• Though it happened two years ago, attorney Ben Crump shared video of the arrest on Monday, accusing cops of using 'scared straight' tactics
• The boy was booked into a juvenile justice facility on a felony battery charge

Harrowing video surfaced Monday from a 2018 incident where police officers attempted to handcuff a crying eight-year-old boy in his elementary school and told him he's going to jail. Bodycamera footage from the December, 14, 2018 incident shows two cops in front of the sitting child, who reportedly has special needs, at Gerald Adams Elementary in Key West, Florida. The boy had punched a teacher in the chest and was arrested on a felony battery charge, according to the arrest report. The boy’s name was not listed in the report due to his age. Although the incident took place two ...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...t-year-old-boy-Florida-elementary-school.html

 

Video posted online of 8-year-old's arrest after 2018 school incident

The 2018 arrest of an 8-year-old boy in Florida was receiving scrutiny Monday after video of officers trying to handcuff the child was posted online. Body camera footage of the arrest was shared late Sunday night by the attorney Benjamin Crump on Twitter and had been viewed more than 1.1 million times by Monday. Crump said in a press release Monday that he was retained by the boy's mother, Bianca N. Digennaro. The attorney said the boy was a special needs student with an individualized education plan due to his disabilities. "Instead of honoring and fulfilling that plan, the school ...

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https://news.yahoo.com/video-posted-online-8-olds-213800196.html

 

SEE IT: Video shows police take special needs 8-year-old boy to jail in a ‘scared straight’ tactic, lawyer says

Florida police in Key West are accused of using “scared straight” tactics after they arrested an 8-year-old boy at his school. According to TMZ, the young boy was accused of punching a teacher in the chest in December 2018, at Gerald Adams Elementary in Key West. The video emerged online Monday by attorney Ben Crump, as part of an upcoming civil case against the Key West Police Department. Following the release of the video, Key West Police Chief Sean T. Brandenburg said that his police officers “did not do anything wrong,” according to the Miami Herald. “Based on the report, ...

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https://www.crimeonline.com/2020/08...jail-in-a-scared-straight-tactic-lawyer-says/

 

Viral video shows Key West police trying to handcuff a crying 8-year-old boy

A video of police officers trying to handcuff an 8-year-old boy in 2018 resurfaced after Julian Castro, former Democratic presidential candidate and cabinet member under the Obama administration, shared it on Twitter Monday. Ben Crump, a Tallahassee attorney who also represents the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, first shared the video on Twitter. “We do represent the young man, and we’re getting ready to bring a lawsuit against the department,” Crump told the Daily News. Police were called to Gerald Adams Elementary on Dec. 14, 2018 after the child punched a teacher in the chest, according ...

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https://thehill.com/changing-americ...eo-shows-key-west-police-trying-to-handcuff-a

 

Disturbing moment sobbing 8yo with ‘special needs’ cuffed at school

Disturbing footage shows the moment a police officer handcuffed a crying eight-year-old boy and took him to jail in a police car after a 2018 incident at his elementary school. Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump posted the footage on Monday and said authorities used “scared straight” tactics on the boy, who he said has special needs. The video starts with an officer asking the boy, “Do you know where you are going? You are going to jail.” Another officer, who is not seen in the video, instructed the sobbing boy to stand up straight and put his hands behind his ...

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https://www.news.com.au/world/north...l/news-story/e0727546dc52a7b0581661e46e17ea9f

 

Video Showing Florida Police Attempting To Handcuff 8-Year-Old Draws Outrage

The arrest of an 8-year-old boy at a Florida school in 2018 has sparked an outcry after civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the boy’s family, posted online footage of police attempting to handcuff the child. Crump shared police body camera footage on Sunday night of the incident, which had been viewed more than 1.5 million times as of Monday evening. He said in an emailed news release that the boy’s mother, Bianca N. Digennaro, had retained him. The arrest took place at Gerald Adams Elementary in Key West, Florida, on Dec. 14, 2018, after the boy reportedly ...

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...handcuff-8-year-old-draws-outrage/ar-BB17O4wI

 

Video shows Key West police officers handcuff, arrest 8-year-old boy

The Key West Police Department is in hot water after a video surfaced of an arrest at an elementary school. The video is tough to watch. Police body cam footage shows an officer trying to handcuff a crying 8-year-old boy reportedly with special needs who attends Gerald Adams Elementary School in Key West. The handcuffs are too big for the 3-foot-5, 64-pound boy, but he is taken into custody none the less. The child was accused, according to the arrest report, of punching a teacher in the chest after being reprimanded for not sitting correctly in the cafeteria during lunch. ...

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https://www.local10.com/news/local/...lice-officers-handcuff-arrest-8-year-old-boy/

 

Police arrest an eight-year-old and try to put him in handcuffs

The 2018 arrest of an 8-year-old boy in Florida was receiving scrutiny Monday after video of officers trying to handcuff the child was posted online. Body camera footage of the arrest was shared late Sunday night by the attorney Benjamin Crump on Twitter and had been viewed more than 1.1 million times by Monday. Crump said in a press release Monday that he was retained by the boy’s mother, Bianca N. Digennaro. The attorney said the boy was a special needs student with an individualized education plan due to his disabilities. “Instead of honoring and fulfilling that plan, the school ...

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https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/na...ght-year-old-and-try-to-put-him-in-handcuffs/

 

Florida cop handcuffs special needs boy, 8, at school in disturbing video, tells him 'you're going to jail'

A shocking and harrowing video surfaced on Monday where police officers were seen trying to handcuff an eight-year-old boy at his elementary school. The child was also told that he would be "going to jail". The body camera footage taken from the officers has now been released. The incident had taken place on December 14, 2018, and features two police officers sitting in front of the child who is believed to have special needs at the Gerald Adams Elementary in Key West, Florida. The child had reportedly punched a teacher in the chest and had been arrested on a felony ...

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https://meaww.com/florida-police-handcuff-boy-special-needs-school-body-camera-footage-go-to-jail