MC police pick up ESS 5 year old; harass & assault him

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I 100% supervise and keep a house appropiate for the ave so we have few issues.

Awesome to hear! How many 5 year olds are you watching at once? Somehow I doubt you have 20 or so...

Mine are older now and it doesn't matter if I have 1 or 20, point is mine are always supervised. You should try it.

Neat trick. Still wondering how you watch 20 5 year olds at the same time, especially when you're not allowed to block or lock the door.

At our ES, even if a child left the classroom the doors are locked and you have to go through the main office with 2-3 staff there in order to get out. You cannot get out directly. So, either child left during recess or it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Wait, that can’t be true. The doors have to be left o unlocked in the event of a fire or emergency. All doors are unlocked from the inside.

Where does this "you cannot block doors" come from. I have literally seen the principal and teachers at our ES blocking the main entrance to prevent a kid from leaving.

[Anonymous]

The problem with the "oh was the kid SN or not" take is that in kindergarten you often don't know yet! My DS is SN with anxiety and in fact eloped a fair amount from his classroom in 1st grade (before then it didn't happen). It's largely stopped since then. It doesn't make him a bad kid. It doesn't make me a bad parent (maybe other things do, who knows, but not that). It also doesn't make it easy on the teachers and other staff who have to deal with this. He actually did try to run off campus one day on the playground. A teacher followed him and led him back. It makes no sense that the police would have to be called in such a situation -- what, the teachers have to let the kid run off? What if he gets hit by a car or kidnapped while the teacher calls 911? Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% supervise and keep a house appropiate for the ave so we have few issues.

Awesome to hear! How many 5 year olds are you watching at once? Somehow I doubt you have 20 or so...

Mine are older now and it doesn't matter if I have 1 or 20, point is mine are always supervised. You should try it.

Neat trick. Still wondering how you watch 20 5 year olds at the same time, especially when you're not allowed to block or lock the door.

As a parent, of course you lock your house doors and good parents would have additional locks so kids cannot get out without permission.

Imagine locking hundreds of children in a building that can't be unlocked by pushing the door unlock bar on the inside. Are you out of your mind? Have you ever heard of fire safety?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% supervise and keep a house appropiate for the ave so we have few issues.

Awesome to hear! How many 5 year olds are you watching at once? Somehow I doubt you have 20 or so...

Mine are older now and it doesn't matter if I have 1 or 20, point is mine are always supervised. You should try it.

Neat trick. Still wondering how you watch 20 5 year olds at the same time, especially when you're not allowed to block or lock the door.

As a parent, of course you lock your house doors and good parents would have additional locks so kids cannot get out without permission.

Imagine locking hundreds of children in a building that can't be unlocked by pushing the door unlock bar on the inside. Are you out of your mind? Have you ever heard of fire safety?

Our school doors were locked for safety and someone coming in. You clearly haven't been to a school recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% supervise and keep a house appropiate for the ave so we have few issues.

Awesome to hear! How many 5 year olds are you watching at once? Somehow I doubt you have 20 or so...

Mine are older now and it doesn't matter if I have 1 or 20, point is mine are always supervised. You should try it.

Neat trick. Still wondering how you watch 20 5 year olds at the same time, especially when you're not allowed to block or lock the door.

At our ES, even if a child left the classroom the doors are locked and you have to go through the main office with 2-3 staff there in order to get out. You cannot get out directly. So, either child left during recess or it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Wait, that can’t be true. The doors have to be left o unlocked in the event of a fire or emergency. All doors are unlocked from the inside.

Where does this "you cannot block doors" come from. I have literally seen the principal and teachers at our ES blocking the main entrance to prevent a kid from leaving.

If a kid goes around, they cannot grab that kid and forcible stop them. Block as in we don't want you here and please go there and kids complying is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I 100% supervise and keep a house appropiate for the ave so we have few issues.

Awesome to hear! How many 5 year olds are you watching at once? Somehow I doubt you have 20 or so...

Mine are older now and it doesn't matter if I have 1 or 20, point is mine are always supervised. You should try it.

Neat trick. Still wondering how you watch 20 5 year olds at the same time, especially when you're not allowed to block or lock the door.

As a parent, of course you lock your house doors and good parents would have additional locks so kids cannot get out without permission.

Imagine locking hundreds of children in a building that can't be unlocked by pushing the door unlock bar on the inside. Are you out of your mind? Have you ever heard of fire safety?

Our school doors were locked for safety and someone coming in. You clearly haven't been to a school recently.

Locked from the outside, unlocked from the inside.

[Anonymous]

The body camera video from this incident has now been released:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/video-body-cam-footage-shows-police-accosting-handcuffing-screaming-at-5-year-old/

[Anonymous]

Having watched it, I hope his parents win this lawsuit and take the cops involved for millions.

[Anonymous]

That kid is tiny. Terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having watched it, I hope his parents win this lawsuit and take the cops involved for millions.

It’s extremely disturbing. There’s no way the SRO thing can continue after this. The MCPD should be embarrassed for both trying to prevent the public release of this video, which they are legally required to do. But also for being sure to let everyone know that these officers will not be fired and as a result will not receive any significant punishment. Totally gross and inexcusable.

[Anonymous]

The school employees involved in this also need to go.

[Anonymous]

The video in Bethesda beat is intense. I did feel like everyone was doing what they thought was right. But all the “Hood” explanations and justifications seemed so extreme. The kid was clearly terrified. The mom continued to talk about beating her own child legally and not wanting to go to jail. The cop was basically encouraging her to beat the child. I can imagine what a school administrator would think having to listen to all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The video in Bethesda beat is intense. I did feel like everyone was doing what they thought was right. But all the “Hood” explanations and justifications seemed so extreme. The kid was clearly terrified. The mom continued to talk about beating her own child legally and not wanting to go to jail. The cop was basically encouraging her to beat the child. I can imagine what a school administrator would think having to listen to all that.

The school administrator, as any good bureaucrat, was probably thinking that she was pretty happy that the cop was dealing with this so that she did not have to. Passive CYA mode.

[Anonymous]

Statement from MCPS...

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=10597&type=&startYear=&pageNumber=&mode=

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The video in Bethesda beat is intense. I did feel like everyone was doing what they thought was right. But all the “Hood” explanations and justifications seemed so extreme. The kid was clearly terrified. The mom continued to talk about beating her own child legally and not wanting to go to jail. The cop was basically encouraging her to beat the child. I can imagine what a school administrator would think having to listen to all that.

The school administrator, as any good bureaucrat, was probably thinking that she was pretty happy that the cop was dealing with this so that she did not have to. Passive CYA mode.

I also suspect that the administrator saw Black cops, a Black kid, and a Black mom, all seemingly acquiescing to this treatment and wondered whether it was her role to step in.