Legal advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against a Kentucky sheriff's deputy who handcuffed two children with mental disorders in an elementary school in 2014, alleging that the students suffered trauma after being punished for behavior that they could not control.
Video of one of the incidents shows Kevin Sumner, a deputy with the Kenton County Sheriff's Office, pulling an 8-year-old boy's arms behind his back and placing handcuffs on his biceps. The third-grader — identified in the lawsuit by the initials S.R. — cries out in pain.
"You need to behave the way you know you're supposed to, or you'll suffer the consequences," Sumner tells the boy.
"If you want the handcuffs off, you're going to need to behave as I'm asking you — nicely," Sumner says. Sumner was assigned to work at Covington Independent Public Schools, a school district located in Kentucky just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. After attempting to discipline the student, school officials reportedly called Sumner to restrain him.
The officer is an asshole but the school officials are even worse. If you don't know how to handle kids with special needs then don't ****ing have them in your school.
To be completely honest, the little kid is probably a little brat. He was swinging at the police officer. If he was fully grown he would have been shot. This will teach him a lesson to not go around hitting cops.
Oh ok... considering that the police normally kill people (which is apparently just fine to you) handcuffing a small child is A-OK.
do they even realise what kind of emotional impact this will have on a child? and apparently he had a disability?
truly the scum of the earth, I hope the child receives therapy and is able to move past it so it doesnt affect him into adulthood.
