Fight the system? Hell, you're a criminal is you just *question* the system.
CROSSVILLE (WATE) - A Cumberland County father didn't want to wait in a long line of traffic to pick his kids up from school. That led to a series of encounters last week at South Cumberland Elementary, and now the dad's facing charges.
You can see the full video on YouTube.
A 6 News viewer pointed us to YouTube video of one of the incidents.
"I'm going to call some help down here and we're going to take you up to the jail right now. I'm not putting up with this today. You're being childish and it's uncalled for," Sheriff Deputy and School Resource Officer Avery Aytes said in the YouTube video.
The video goes on to show the dad arguing with the school security officer over state law, then the dad winds up in handcuffs.
http://www.wate.com/story/24005228/cumberland-county-parent-releases-video-of-his-arrest-by-a-school-resource-officer
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I haven't had any encounters with cops other than a speeding ticket years ago.
Cops have no say in school policy, whether you like it or not.
You certainly do seem to point your fingers at a lot of people, indicting them with implications they've never made. Going from "so you justify this cop?" to "you're why cops get away with this...".
These are statements no one has made other than yourself, so it kind of begs the question: Is placing intent and words into others people's mouths a habit of yours you're simply not aware of, or is it something you do for fun? Or is there another, wholly different reason?
I will continue to share my opinion on ALL sides of a story. Because I can. That makes me neither supportive of the cop, nor supportive of a dad who apparently thinks his time is more important than mine. 
End of story.
Not does the cop's abuse of power minimize the father's being a jerk. That's pretty much six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Quite often, concept A does not deny concept B... that the two may each exist independently of the other. Nor does acknowledging one deny the other.
Weird stuff.
I'm pretty sure you have been rather clear, without any ambiguity at all... but then again, I'm not petulantly looking for a fight, and can read at better than a third grade level.
by “enforcing the law.” However, the sheriff also said he agrees with the father on principle, saying the policy is creating safety concerns because it has created a line of cars along the highway outside of the school. Burgess said he is reviewing the policy and will make some recommendations this week as to what changes should be made to ensure student safety ...
‘School Is Out – My Kids Are to Be Given to Me’
Nov. 19, 2013 7:46pm
Jason Howerton
... Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess says he hasn't seen the video and doesn't need to, because it won't tell the whole story. He says Aytes was just doing his job. "The resource officers are there to enforce the law," Burgess said ... Burgess says parents should take any policy concerns to those in charge of the policy, not the school resource officer ...
Cumberland Co. Parent Arrested
Wednesday, November 20 2013 05:49 AM EST
... Channel 4 spoke with Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess, who says Howe had a point, but both Howe and the officer handled the situation poorly. "With all those kids there, all those parents there ... the officer, at some point, has to say that's it. We've got to stop here. We're not going to let this keep growing and his only alternative was to arrest him at that point," Burgess said. The sheriff also pointed out that Howe had previously complained about the issue to the department and school officials and that the video doesn't show what led up to the confrontation ...
Disagreement with school resource officer leads to father's arrest
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:33 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:43 AM EST
Posted by Kara Apel
As far as I can tell from the limited info available, this school, like many other schools nowadays, has policies on releasing children after school: they won't, for example, simply allow children to walk away from the school building after school without parental permission. Various accounts indicate the school's former policy on releasing children directly to parents was producing mob scenes after school, as parents crowded into the front office to ask for their kids. To "solve" this, administrators (in their infinite wisdom) informed parents that the new school policy woould be that parents could wait in line in their cars, with placards identifying which child they were picking up, rather than coming into the building to ask to pick-up the child
So what does Howe do? He walks into the front office to ask for his kid, bringing his girlfriend to videotape. Nobody shown in the video set the policy -- not the secretary, not Aytes, certainly not Howe. Whatever was videotaped, not all the encounter is posted on youtube. The video shows Howe arguing with Aytes, calling the sheriff's office to complain about Aytes, and threatening to sue. The video also shows Aytes calling someone for instructions on what to do, stepping outside for most of the conversation, then coming back inside, while he confirms that he understands what he's been told. Meanwhile, the video shows the front office secretary trying to resolve the matter by offering Howe a form he can sign, granting permission for his children to walk home, rather than waiting for someone to pick them up. Howe refuses to sign the form: apparently he does not want to grant blanket permissionfor his children to walk home
I expect Howe could have quickly resolved the matter for the day by writing on the form in big capital letters THIS PERMISSION VALID ONLY FOR THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2013, signing it, handing it back to the secretary, and then stepping outside (as Aytes probably asked him to do in the time before that shown by the posted video); if he did this every day for a few days, the administration -- which didn't like parents coming into the front office -- probably would have taken a quick interest in a policy change. And that's certainly not the only good option he had
The whole thing is frickin silly. It sounds like an idiotic policy. But Howe tries to change it by arguing with low-level people who can't change it, which is just moronic
