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18. I just read this horrifying comment on a slate.com article about this incident:

Amyjoken 16 hours ago

My son Jeremy is mentally retarded and autistic. He lives at a residential school in New York City. Last summer his caretakers took a group of kids to a local park. When an ice cream truck came by, Jeremy wanted ice cream, and when told no (for good and sufficient reasons,) he laid down on the sidewalk and would not get up. Someone called the police, who handcuffed him and took him to the emergency room. When the principal of the school called to tell me what happened, I asked, "Couldn't the caretakers have explained the situation to the cops?" He replied "in the current climate, they just couldn't risk opposing the police."

Most of the caretakers at this school are black. Jeremy's favorite staff member, who loves him and has been a wonderful influence in his life, is a young black man. I am completely freaked out that this situation so closely parallels my son's, and utterly grateful that it resolved without more violence than the police handcuffing a mentally retarded man. I am embarrassed that I didn't understand how the staff had to handle it.

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