A second grader with autism at a North Carolina school was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. The officer put his knee in the child's back.
Black children and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted, according to CBS News analysis of Education Department data.
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Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."
The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.
"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.
The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.
"If you, my friend, are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be very shortly," the officer told the child.
Earlier that day, the child allegedly spit at a teacher. Now, he was in handcuffs and a police officer was saying he could end up in jail.
That child — a second grader with autism at a North Carolina school — was ultimately pinned on the floor for 38 minutes, according to body camera video of the incident. At one point, court records say, the officer put his knee in the child's back.
Americans talk all big game about how other countries are 1984 communist authoritarian whatever. Then they got cops in school arresting kids below class five. And mostly targeting disabled or black kids. Just ghoulish. I'm sorry the fact that there cops in schools is just beyond me. I have no words. Death to america.
Communist authoritarianism: jailing and killing innocents. Jailing domestic terrorists is an entirely different matter.
"class five"? Did your bot programming malfunction? There would be no need for cops in schools if enablers like you didn't coddle and embolden these little shits