MC police pick up ESS 5 year old; harass & assault him
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
Thank you for the reply. I am so frustrated about how things get swept under the rug in MCPS at least partially because of the obstacles to building school community. I still don't understand what happened at PBES though. Did police come to the building? And, if so - were they responding to a complaint about school staff or about a child? Who called them? A parent? Thank you for any info you can share so we can all (parents, staff) do better! |
Anonymous
Anonymous
|
Update: In January a judge granted a motion for summary judgment from the officers involved, which dismissed nearly all of the allegations in the case, including assault, battery and false imprisonment. Now he has reversed that decision.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/judge-reinstates-allegations-against-officers-over-their-treatment-of-5-year-old-boy/?fbclid=IwAR3DlOOCQ4qEYQBACfhixGGXsaQtjXJMB9b-e1N4nPWk7SFovxrfSFwysCM |
Anonymous
GOOD. I am floored that these officers are still in a position to respond to similar calls. There’s been no accountability for this horrendous incident. |
Anonymous
SROs in training! |
Anonymous
| My understanding is that the child fled the school building and ran away. While it's not an everyday occurrence, it does happen a couple times each year at many schools. It's policy when a student leaves school grounds that we call 9-1-1. Technically, we're not supposed to chase after the kids even at the elementary level. That being said, we've had kids do the same thing at our school and we do run after the children given our proximity to major roadways. The last thing we want is a child being hit by a car. |
Anonymous
They've been disciplined. They couldn't be fired because State law made it very difficult to do so. The State has repealed that disciplinary framework and has mandated that counties implement a new one, which will be in place July 1. But even the new one still doesn't give a police chief final disciplinary authority over officers. The chief couldn't fire these folks even if he wanted to. |
Anonymous
And that's the whole point. They couldn't be SROs. There is a selective process to become an SRO. And if you had had a professionally trained SRO respond to this, it never would have happened. |
Anonymous
Why do the SROs pick on a 5 year old? |
Anonymous
That's an oddly adamant assertion given that an SRO assaulted a kid less than six months ago just over in FCPS: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/school-resource-officer-stone-middle-school-assault-student-arrested/65-46cd1820-22b1-4dd8-bbf4-52619eda039d I'm also kind of shocked that someone can, with a straight face, say that regular cops can't help but abuse kindergarters, which is why we need special cops for schools. What if, and hear me out here, we make sure ALL cops are capable to refraining from abuse? |
Anonymous
| What happened ultimately in this case? To the child, to the officers present, school administrator that was involved, teachers, family etc..? |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
| Police were still employed, per the news articles linked above. |
Anonymous
| Got word today that the Assistant Principal who was present during this I is any annd did nothing to protect the five-year-old is the new Assistant Principal at Silver Creek. Cannot make this stuff up. She should not be allowed to interact with children. What are they doing placing her in a school? |