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Judi Lynn

(160,562 posts) Mon Apr 25, 2016, 06:41 PM Apr 2016

Police chief in Tennessee sorry over children's arrests: newspaper

Source: Reuters

Police chief in Tennessee sorry over children's arrests: newspaper
April 25, 2016

(Reuters) - The police chief in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has apologized over the April 15 arrests of 10 students from an elementary school during the investigation of an alleged bullying incident, a spokesman said on Monday.

"I am so saddened, and I'm so sorry this incident happened, because I truly think it could have been avoided," Murfreesboro Police Chief Karl Durr told the Tennessean newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Police spokesman Kyle Evans confirmed the report but did not supply a separate statement of apology by Durr.

The arrests of the children, aged 6 to 11, gained national attention and sparked criticism at a time when police-community relations and the role of law enforcement in schools are in the spotlight throughout the country. Human rights group Southern Poverty Law Center said it would launch an investigation.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-chief-tennessee-sorry-over-childrens-arrests-newspaper-162501287.html?nhp=1

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Police chief in Tennessee sorry over children's arrests: newspaper (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP

I don't feel sad when bullies are arrested NobodyHere Apr 2016 #1

These kids were not arrested for bullying. They were arrested for not 1monster Apr 2016 #3

As was pointed out, theye were not bullying anyone rpannier Apr 2016 #8

What kind of an asshole arrests babies, for chrissake? nt valerief Apr 2016 #2

Kim Jong Un, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, Diem, Franco, Iran, and apparently American LEOs Feeling the Bern Apr 2016 #7

Birds of a feather, I guess. nt valerief Apr 2016 #15

He has shown he is not fit to run the epartment Angry Dragon Apr 2016 #4

They're only sorry SwankyXomb Apr 2016 #5

I'm sorry rpannier Apr 2016 #9

What the sanitized article leaves out -the majority of the children arrested were AAs BumRushDaShow Apr 2016 #6

+1. nt pnwmom Apr 2016 #11

Thanks for adding some central facts to this story which Reuters didn't feel like mentioning. n/t Judi Lynn Apr 2016 #12

How about dismissing the charges then, Bunky! Feeling the Bern Apr 2016 #10

They should be sorry. Ihope every kid gets an attorney Liberal_in_LA Apr 2016 #13

And a free collage education! nt Scruffy Rumbler Apr 2016 #14

NobodyHere

(2,810 posts)

1. I don't feel sad when bullies are arrested

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 06:57 PM

Apr 2016

1monster

(11,012 posts)

3. These kids were not arrested for bullying. They were arrested for not

Reply to NobodyHere (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:21 PM

Apr 2016

breaking up the fight. They were SIX to eleven years old.

It's time to take the LEOs out of the school. In my experience, it only leads to escalation and jail sentences for what probably only would have gotten a week's worth of detention when I was in school.

I know of one young man who got a three months sentence for shoving a guy... and he didn't even start the altercation.

When my son was being bullied in school, I went to the guidance councilor and asked him to deal with it, specifically not to get the kid in trouble, but to try to make the kid understand what he was doing. The councilor dealt with the problem so effectively that the bully sought out my son and apologized.

There was no punishment or humiliation sought for the bully and that was the point.

Punishment in many of the bullying incidents only exacerbates the situation. If we can teach empathy, we have done our jobs.

rpannier

(24,330 posts)

8. As was pointed out, theye were not bullying anyone

Reply to NobodyHere (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:21 PM

Apr 2016

2nd.. you're okay with arresting 6 and 7 year olds???

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. What kind of an asshole arrests babies, for chrissake? nt

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:14 PM

Apr 2016

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)

7. Kim Jong Un, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Pinochet, Diem, Franco, Iran, and apparently American LEOs

Reply to valerief (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:08 PM

Apr 2016

valerief

(53,235 posts)

15. Birds of a feather, I guess. nt

Reply to Feeling the Bern (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 11:19 AM

Apr 2016

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

4. He has shown he is not fit to run the epartment

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:26 PM

Apr 2016

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)

5. They're only sorry

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:28 PM

Apr 2016

because it became a public relations disaster. Not for anything else.

rpannier

(24,330 posts)

9. I'm sorry

Reply to SwankyXomb (Reply #5)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:21 PM

Apr 2016

I got caught

BumRushDaShow

(129,174 posts)

6. What the sanitized article leaves out -the majority of the children arrested were AAs

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:30 PM

Apr 2016

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/21/black-caucus-questions-murfreesboro-childrens-arrest/83331472/

It's the second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse.... Community after comunity.... Criminalizing CHILDREN of color. And it's because their inbred white privilege causes them to view children of color as "animals".