Avon Park, Fla., is a zero-tolerance kind of place.
On March 28, Desre'e Watson, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Avon Elementary School, had a bad morning. She cried. She wailed. She kicked. She scratched. She hit a teacher. That's what the police say, anyway.
The police? That's right. To subdue the unruly kindergartner, school officials phoned Avon Park's police department ("committed to enhancing the 'Quality of Life' of the community"). When the cops arrived, young Desre'e attempted to resist arrest by crawling under a table. But Avon Park's finest pulled her out, cuffed her, put her in a police cruiser, drove her to the county jail, and charged this 50-pound menace with a felony and two misdemeanors.
"When there is an outburst of violence," Police Chief Frank Mercurio told a local news station, "we have a duty to protect and make that school a safe environment for the students, staff and faculty. That's why, at this point, the person was arrested regardless what the age." Let's hope his message gets across to those brats in the neonatal wards.
http://www.slate.com/id/2164004/fr/flyout
There is a copy of the police report in the article.
Kindergartner Charged With Felony Tantrum
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Look at the police report, located in the link, in the original post.Dark Metal wrote:Who said the kid is black?
It says she's black.
On a side note, it is interesting that in the US they use the similar report writing standard as security officers in Canada. "At the above stated time, date and location; the writer ....blah, blah.... This report is written for your information." They refer to themselves as "I" not as "the writer". Lame, it sounds so kindergartenish.