Girl, 12, arrested for doodling
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That was Alexa Alexa Gonzalez, 12.
She was doodling on her desk in a New York school and “for that, she was busted”, says My Fox, going on >>>
The seventh grader says she was put in metal cuffs, taken to a police precinct across the street, and suspended.
She was also patted down, she says, according to the story, which adds:
“In a statement the Department of Education says: ‘The JHS 190 principal in Queens is reaching out to the parent today and has lifted the suspension. The student is returning to her classes’.”
(Cheers, Aaron)
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My Fox – Queens Girl Gets Cuffed for Doodling, February 5, 2010
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February 8th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Shit like this really fucks me off. I mean you’d be hard pressed to find a 12yr old that doesn’t doodle during class. If anything it’s a sign of an active mind.
It’s not kids that are out of control these days it the bloody officials and police. Waste of fucking time and tax payers money, they should fine the school for wasting resources.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:42 am
At least they didn’t cane her!
February 8th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
“At least they didn’t cane her!”
Of course not! This is the USA.
They would have used a paddle…
February 8th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
The cop that did this clearly has mental problems. Sadly this is typical of today’s control-freak authoritarian nut-job cops. And they wonder why the general public is becoming increasingly very hostile toward them and their ‘authority’.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
What I’m getting out of this is she was drawing ON THE DESK not on paper. So it could be a case of them thinking destruction of school property, doesnt mean i agree with the over-reaction of cuffing the poor kid, but it changes the view a little.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
They hire cops in the US these days based on a LACK of intelligence. They make them sit a standardized test and if you do too well you are disregarded. Those in charge want a police force that is incapable of thinking for itself, that mindlessly takes orders and carries them out to the letter.
If they were hiring cops for their reasoning instead of stupidity these sorts of things would be far less likely, as the school who called the cops would be told by the first person in the chain they talked to, that this isn’t a police matter, and that any further such calls would be chargeable for waste of police time.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I don’t know you but me you touch my kids you die. This is that simple. So This is a warning to the cops.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Kids are not out of control. Grown up are. I hope the kids can do something about this.
HELP!
February 8th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
She was lucky she didn’t have to get a full strip-down and body-cavity search. (Maybe the police had run out of rubber gloves?)
February 8th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
” They hire cops in the US these days based on a LACK of intelligence. They make them sit a standardized test and if you do too well you are disregarded. Those in charge want a police force that is incapable of thinking for itself, that mindlessly takes orders and carries them out to the letter. ”
translation ….
I wanted to be a cop but didn’t make the cut waaaaah
February 9th, 2010 at 12:59 am
” translation ….
I wanted to be a cop but didn’t make the cut waaaaah”
Translation.
I wan’t to be funny but I am naught but a poor /b/tard with no sense of humor.
Never lived in the US, never will either. However, given that what I stated above is true in most states, not making the grade to be a beat cop would in fact be a compliment and not something to waaaaaah about.
February 20th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
This is ridiculous.
The punishment should fit the “crime”.
One week of detention where she would have scrubbed desks and walls.
Which “crime” will get the next seventh grader arrested?
Sneezing without covering their mouth?
February 26th, 2010 at 12:18 am
This is really stupid, and another reason why I don’t want to live in the U.S, and I’m glad I don’t. I feel bad for the kid, I used to doodle a lot when I was a kid.
April 3rd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
While I agree it was a little extreme, it was vandalism, which is a crime! She wants to doodle, find some PAPER! The pics I see of her show arrogance. Suing for a million dollars? Just another wet back wanting something for nothing!
April 5th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
In my country the case goes in the reverse. All the desks are full of writen comments most of them of loves etc . I agree that is a short kind of vandalism , but the result was too much
April 7th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
She’s preety cute
April 8th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
This is indeed a waste of time, money and more importantly a breech of freedom of speach and of the rights of the child.if she was eing disruptive in class, the teacher should punish her; however doodlin(unless profoundly offensive) should not be a punishable crime. Idoodled myself in grade and high school, and I’m in college now studying physics- let the children have their doodles, it reflects, if nothing else, the mundane and repetitive things we’re teaching kids these days. hell, I would have died of boredom in school if it were’nt for my doodles, if they’re done right they are a sign of creativity and intelligence not being put to use. kids don’t get enough art time anyway, teachers see it as some crap that has to be jammed in at the ast half hour on a friday evening when in reality many professions, engineering and architecture for example, are heavily art dependant.