Portland police cuff 9-year-old; mother objects

[joeybee12]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A year ago, two Portland police officers investigating a fight at a youth club came to the home of a 9-year-old Portland girl, handcuffed her as she stood in a blue and white bathing suit, and led her away to be processed downtown on an assault charge.

The girl's mother and some in the juvenile justice system call the handcuffing and arrest excessive. A citizen panel that investigates police misconduct plans to look into it.

"When they put handcuffs on, I thought, 'Wait a minute, this has got to be a joke,' " Latoya Harris told The Oregonian. "The look on my daughter's face went from humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic."

Joseph Hagedon, chief supervising attorney for the Metropolitan Public Defender's juvenile unit, said it's a concern that the fight had occurred a week earlier, and the girl was at home with a parent.

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/portland-police-cuff-9-year-old-mother-objects

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. This intimidation of kids and parents is too widespread to be co-incidence.

I would love to know how police across the country are getting instructions on dragging kids into jail.
And how schools suddenly got the idea to call police on kids as young as 5.

[hobbit709]

4. Shush. We're not supposed to hint that it's a police state.

[obxhead]

2. wow

There is a reason we should fear the police.

[dilby]

3. Good ole PoPo at their best.

Portland Police are great if you are looking to get shot.

[SamKnause]

5. When are our "esteemed politicians"

going to discuss the rampant police brutality in this country ??????

5 shots fired into a 93 year old female.

Handcuffing 9 year old girls.

I am waiting for an officer to pepper spray or shoot and kill a hamster because they "feared for their life".

[lunasun]

6. daughter was a straight-A student when she was arrested a year ago.....

“You have a 9-year-old, you have a safe home, you can make a referral to the juvenile department,” he said. “You have plenty of options at your fingertips as a police officer.”

Asked if there’s any reason to put a 9-year-old in a regular adult facility, he said, “I don’t think so.”

Latoya Harris said her daughter was a straight-A student and didn’t deserve this kind of treatment.

“Just want to cry right now just thinking about it,” she said.said

it's a concern that the fight had occurred a week earlier, and the girl was at home with a parent.

"It was way over the top for them to do that," Hagedon said.

Yeah real over the top !
After the district attorney reviewed the case, no charges were ever filed.