Thanks for this story to reader-researcher Jerry, who writes,
The way some of those kids behave, I have no problem with cuffing them.
Agreed. The problem isn’t “racist” cops, but racist black parents, who train their children to be ultraviolent, and to violently attack all white authority figures.
The following piece is not a news article, but a press release on behalf of the black mother, which was written by an anonymous AP propaganda operative, in hopes of getting the black mother the ghetto lottery, and getting white cops’ fired, imprisoned, and/or murdered. The operative provides no information about what really happened, or evne about what may have happened.
Portland police cuff 9-year-old; mother objects
By Anonymous Associated Press propaganda operative
5 hr ago
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A year ago, two Portland police officers investigating a fight at a youth club came to the home of a 9-year-old Portland girl, handcuffed her as she stood in a blue and white bathing suit, and led her away to be processed downtown on an assault charge.
The girl's mother and some in the juvenile justice system call the handcuffing and arrest excessive. A citizen panel that investigates police misconduct plans to look into it.
"When they put handcuffs on, I thought, 'Wait a minute, this has got to be a joke,' " Latoya Harris told The Oregonian. "The look on my daughter's face went from humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic."
Joseph Hagedon, chief supervising attorney for the Metropolitan Public Defender's juvenile unit, said it's a concern that the fight had occurred a week earlier, and the girl was at home with a parent.
"It was way over the top for them to do that," Hagedon said.
[Note: Hagedon, like the anonymous Associated Press propaganda operative who wrote this release, is an advocate for young ultraviolent, racist, black predators. As far as he’s concerned, it’s “way over the top” for the police to ever do their jobs, where young black predators are concerned.]
Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said officers use handcuffs as a safeguard, and they acted according to bureau policy.
Police rules require juveniles taken into custody for any felony or serious misdemeanor charge such as the one police alleged to be fingerprinted and photographed at the forensics division, he said. It makes It makes [sic] no age distinctions. [I guess the AP has no need for copyeditors, as opposed to editors for propaganda content.]
"We really don't think there's circumstances where children under 10 should be taken into custody," said Mark McKenchie, executive director of Youth, Rights & Justice, a not-for-profit law firm that serves vulnerable children.
He and Hagedon are calling for changes in city law and police rules to require a juvenile court judge's order before police can take a child younger than 10 into custody. Children 10 and 11 could be taken into custody without a judge's approval only for serious felonies.
[The first time I read the foregoing paragraph, the operative fooled me into thinking that the police had broken the law. But they hadn’t. And the notion that “Children 10 and 11 could be taken into custody without a judge's approval only for serious felonies” also isn’t the law, but rather the hope of the pro-black predator activist Mark McKenchie and the anonymous AP propaganda operative.]
The 9-year-old girl was held for an hour and released. Prosecutors didn't take the case to trial.
The action has been reviewed by the Independent Police Review Division, overseen by Portland's independent auditor. It found officers violated no Police Bureau policies and forwarded the complaint to the officers' supervisors.
[If the officers “violated no Police Bureau policies,” why would IPRD forward the complaint to the officers’ supervisors? The matter should have been marked “unfounded,” filed and forgotten. Something doesn’t smell right here, either in the Portland PD or this propaganda release.]
Last month, Harris took her story to the Citizen Review Committee, an advisory and monitoring panel that hears complaints of alleged officer misconduct against Portland police, and it agreed to hear testimony. The weekly Portland Mercury first reported Harris' account.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
Arresting a 9-year-old for assault because of a "fight at a youth club." What's that about? When I was 9 years old, we had lots of fights at my (all-white) school and youth clubs (if the YMCA and Cub Scouts count as youth clubs). Nobody was ever arrested, and the idea of arresting a child for a fistfight would have been considered preposterous by every parent, teacher, counsellor and policeman in the United States.
ReplyDeleteHave things changed so much today that children are now arrested for fistfights, or did this girl use a knife or some other sort of weapon? Is the article remaining tactfully silent on the details of the fight because the answer to this question is yes? Or does the author not think the answer is important?
Actually, here's a description of the fight from the newspaper that first reported the story. It also sounds like a benign incident, but with a hysterical, vindictive mom demanding an arrest.
ReplyDelete"McCarthy's [one of the arresting officer's] report says he and Huspek [the other arresting officer] were called to the Boys and Girls Club after the fight involving Harris' daughter had ended—and after club officials had sent Harris' daughter home.
"The mom of another nine-year-old girl who'd been fighting—that girl accused Harris' daughter of knocking off her glasses and somehow hitting her head on a brick wall—had told officers she wanted to see Harris' daughter arrested.
"A counselor at the club told police he thought the fight lasted only 'about 30 seconds'—and though he missed most of it, he saw both girls throwing punches. McCarthy's accounting of the fight primarily relies on statements from other children.
"Traci Rose, chief communications officer for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland, says staff have to call cops maybe three to five times a year, citywide. That doesn't include, she says, calls made by parents. She confirmed Harris' daughter was suspended from the club and sent home after the fight."
Another report from another newspaper, again sounding less like a serious assault and more like a symptom of our pussified society and hysterical, vindictive parents. We're getting awfully soft as a nation if even black parents think that a fistfight between children is an incident that requires police action.
ReplyDelete"Harris' 9-year-old daughter, witnesses told police, got in the middle of a dispute between two other girls who had been arguing because one told on the other in school earlier in the day for drawing on a desk.
"The 9-year-old ended up in a fistfight with one of the other girls outside the club, according to a police report. A staff member broke the fight up, but said Harris' daughter continued to try to strike and kick the other girl before they were separated in different rooms.
"Both girls apologized to each other. Staff members found no obvious injuries on any of the girls, they told police. The 9-year-old was sent home and suspended from the club for one week.
"But later that day, the mother of one of the girls called Portland police to report the fight. The mother accused Harris' daughter of striking her child in the face and bashing her head against a brick wall, and told police she wanted an arrest made. Police took a cell phone photo of a red bruise on the girl's cheekbone. Officers went to Harris' home to try to talk with her daughter, but were told she was at her aunt's house.
"Portland Officers David McCarthy and Officer Matthew Huspek returned to the Harris home six days later on May 2 to question the girl. McCarthy wrote in his report that the 9-year-old gave 'vague answers' and appeared to get angry when pressed for more details.
"'I observed (her) breathing speed up, she looked down at the ground ... crossed her arms and would eventually answer my questions,' McCarthy wrote.
"Finding the 9-year-old's statements 'inconsistent' with witnesses who described her as the aggressor, the officers took her into custody, accusing her of fourth-degree assault, the police report said.
"'Officer Huspek and I handcuffed (her) and no inventory was performed due to the tight clothing (the girl) wore,' McCarthy wrote. The report did not mention that the girl was wearing a bathing suit."
Yall people are crazy if u believe these officers were justified. Sounds like either they were pals with the one kids parents or they didn't like the fact that the girl being questioned was mouthy, had a short attention span and only cared about getting back under the water sprinkler and getting wet. Not answering these overreacting cops questions.
ReplyDeleteAnon Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 8:30:00 PM EDT,
ReplyDeleteAccording to you, she was both mouthy and refused to answer the cops' questions.
Do you know something you're not telling us, or are you the crazy one?
Do tell, All-Knowing One!