Arvada Police defend arrest of 11-year-old over drawing

[z-monster]

Arvada Police defend arrest of 11-year-old over drawing - KDVR

Keep in mind that the child was arrested at home, after school, after the principle determined that the boy was NOT dangerous.

I've decided that I want a new pumper sticker that states "I only support intelligent Police Officers"

[arich]

I want a new pumper sticker too!

[TxTowman]

Oops there goes another 70 million dollar lawsuit!

[SCone]

And the headlines read, "Why didn't somebody do something about this sooner?" right after the shootings... How many times have we seen that?

[SupaDave03]

Originally Posted by SCone

And the headlines read, "Why didn't somebody do something about this sooner?" right after the shootings... How many times have we seen that?

Yup!

[ST77]

Originally Posted by SCone

And the headlines read, "Why didn't somebody do something about this sooner?" right after the shootings... How many times have we seen that?

exactly what I was thinking, it is the jobs of law enforcement and the courts to decide who is dangerous not the principal.

[Jake]

The child was told to by his therapist draw pictures instead of act out. So now the child been taught to keep that bottled up. Because we all know law enforcement knows more about what's best for the child.
I'm not saying nothing should be done, but IMHO taking an emotionally disturbed 11yr old from his home in handcuffs for doing what his therapist said is probably going to cause much more harm than good for this kid.

[brewercm]

Originally Posted by thejakestir

The child was told to by his therapist draw pictures instead of act out. So now the child been taught to keep that bottled up. Because we all know law enforcement knows more about what's best for the child.
I'm not saying nothing should be done, but IMHO taking an emotionally disturbed 11yr old from his home in handcuffs for doing what his therapist said is probably going to cause much more harm than good for this kid.

I saw that same interview and it sounded to me like the therapist was called and was at the house when they took him away even trying to explain to the police. Not sure if that was accurate or not but just seemed a little over the top. I also understand the thought of always hearing after the fact about a child like that and all the signs were there.

In my opinion as long as you take a bunch of mentally unstable people and decide that we much integrate them into society these types of things will happen. I’m not saying they all need to be locked up so don’t start jumping on about that either. I just remember when I was in school there were special classes just for them with specially trained teachers to deal with it. Now we just throw them into class with everybody else, whether they can handle it orn not (some can some can't), and wonder why public education sucks. When you have to teach to the lowest common denominator then the rest get bored very fast and stop paying attention.

[silversixx]

They just messed up that kid even more for putting him through that. Im thinking the entire time this kid is not 11 hes 18 for how they are treating him. This is so wrong.