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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree, once the child was returned to school, it was no longer a police matter.  This was a five year old boy.

Watching the video made me sick. How could police behave in that manner to a child? The police officers should be fired and training on basic human decency skills for how to work with members of the community.

Then there were the MCPS employees. Why they didn’t step in and help the child? Why didn’t they ask the police to leave? Disgusting.

Finally, as a mom, I have sympathy for the child’s mom given the situation. She was called to the school because her child ran away from the school staff who was supposed to be watching him only to become the one interrogated by the police. She clearly seemed overwhelmed. The school system should be working with her, the boy, and the school staff to come up with strategies to deescalate when he looses control. Bring in a specialist in behavioral intervention strategies.

I hope the boy gets the help that he needs. For police to threaten and yell at him like that probably was very traumatizing.[/quote]
Unfortunately, once police get involved, it's hard to get them to let go.  And given how these police acted, I'm not sure I'd want to get on their wrong side either. We have a policing issue in this country. "Defund the police" is the wrong slogan, but something fundamental needs to change.[/quote]

This is why I don't fault the school staff in the moment. Challenging a riled up cop does not usually end well. Maybe a supervisor could have helped. How may people here would have the presence of mind to call 911 on the cops in the moment? I would like to know whether the staff reported the abusive conduct after the fact.

The MCPD has a lot of problems. One of them is contempt for the public. Another is an inability to dismiss officers whose behavior makes clear that they have suitability issues.[/quote]

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