In 2018, officer Dennis Turner retired from the Orlando Police Department. Upon retirement, as part of the Reserve Officer Program, Mr. Turner took a job as a School Resource Officer (SRO) at the Lucious and Emma Nixon Charter School in Orlando, Florida.
On September 19. 2019, SRO Turner responded to a first grade classroom where a 6-year-old girl, in the course of throwing a tantrum, either kicked the teacher, a student, or the officer. When the girl wouldn't calm down, officer Turner arrested the kid for battery, placed her into handcuffs, put her in the backseat of a patrol car, and drove off.
At the Orange County Regional Juvenile Center in Orlando, officials fingerprinted and photographed the tiny arrestee. After being processed into the criminal justice system, the 6-year-old battery suspect was released to her family.
SRO Turner had arrested, earlier that day, an unruly 8-year-old boy at the same school. This kid had also been hauled off to the juvenile detention center and processed into the system before being picked up by family members.
As one might expect, when these child arrests were made public, the public reacted in disbelief and outrage. What was going on in that charter school? Orlando Police Chief, Orlando Rolon, immediately suspended SRO Turner pending the results of an internal inquiry.
Pursuant to departmental regulations, a SRO could not arrest a student under the age of 12 without the approval of a watch commander. It appeared that SRO Turner had not complied with that policy.
According to the the 6-year-old battery suspect's grandmother, Meralyn Kirkland, the girl suffered from sleep apnea. It was lack of sleep that caused her to melt down.
Handcuffing misbehaving elementary school children and hauling them off in police cars, over the past ten years or so, had not been that uncommon. Before that, teachers had the authority to maintain order in their classrooms. Kids that could not be controlled by teachers were much easier to expel. But with the militarization of American policing as well as institutional restrictions on teachers' abilities to physically restrain disruptive students, educators lost control of their classrooms. That's when the police become involved in maintaining order in the school.
In the Orlando case, and situations like it, officers did not use good judgment in handcuffing and frogmarching elementary school children out of their classrooms like adult criminals.
On September 2019, Chief Rolon fired Officer Dennis Turner.
On September 19. 2019, SRO Turner responded to a first grade classroom where a 6-year-old girl, in the course of throwing a tantrum, either kicked the teacher, a student, or the officer. When the girl wouldn't calm down, officer Turner arrested the kid for battery, placed her into handcuffs, put her in the backseat of a patrol car, and drove off.
At the Orange County Regional Juvenile Center in Orlando, officials fingerprinted and photographed the tiny arrestee. After being processed into the criminal justice system, the 6-year-old battery suspect was released to her family.
SRO Turner had arrested, earlier that day, an unruly 8-year-old boy at the same school. This kid had also been hauled off to the juvenile detention center and processed into the system before being picked up by family members.
As one might expect, when these child arrests were made public, the public reacted in disbelief and outrage. What was going on in that charter school? Orlando Police Chief, Orlando Rolon, immediately suspended SRO Turner pending the results of an internal inquiry.
Pursuant to departmental regulations, a SRO could not arrest a student under the age of 12 without the approval of a watch commander. It appeared that SRO Turner had not complied with that policy.
According to the the 6-year-old battery suspect's grandmother, Meralyn Kirkland, the girl suffered from sleep apnea. It was lack of sleep that caused her to melt down.
Handcuffing misbehaving elementary school children and hauling them off in police cars, over the past ten years or so, had not been that uncommon. Before that, teachers had the authority to maintain order in their classrooms. Kids that could not be controlled by teachers were much easier to expel. But with the militarization of American policing as well as institutional restrictions on teachers' abilities to physically restrain disruptive students, educators lost control of their classrooms. That's when the police become involved in maintaining order in the school.
In the Orlando case, and situations like it, officers did not use good judgment in handcuffing and frogmarching elementary school children out of their classrooms like adult criminals.
On September 2019, Chief Rolon fired Officer Dennis Turner.
This should happen more often and parents need to be made responsible for their child's action at the very start of school. The children are in society in a classroom and they need to understand how you act or do not act in society. Parents have dropped the ball on parenting and responsibility when it comes to their children. The education system is there to teach them skills to be a productive citizen. They are not there to teach morals, values, religious faith, or family culture.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want to spend the time being a parent, or instilling guidance and a good foundation, don't have children.
Anyone can procreate, not everyone can be a parent.