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Promoting a civil public school environment is important, but we had no idea that the price you paid for writing on a desk could be so severe. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and arrested by the police for writing "okay" on a desk at her Dyker Heights school. WCBS 2 spoke to the Chelsea Fraser and her outraged mother Diana Silva, who said, "I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Yeah, what happened to detention?
Fraser was charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti:
Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom...She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.Silva suggests that her daughter's punishment could have been cleaning the desk on a Saturday, in-house suspension, and a formal apology instead of going to the pokey. What do you think?"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."
"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"
The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"
And a 14-year-old and 15-year-old were arrested for graffiti incidents in Staten Island's North Shore; they've tagged a church, stores, mailboxes, telephone posts, and more.
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The best part is that the WCBS video opens with an NYPD Recruitment advertisement.
That's pretty retarded.
this takes police state to a whole new level. where does this crazy behavior by the NYPD end? I support the police arresting people who deserve it but writing on the desk is hardly worthy of getting tossed in jail.
It about time these kids learned "Dont do the Crime if you cant do the time!"
I think I got that story beat:
NEW LEBANON-Terence Kindlon, lawyer for 16-year-old New Lebanon High School student Amber King, says Town Justice Jack Nevers has dismissed the petit larceny charges against his client.
Amber was accused by the school's cheerleading coach, Penny Black, of stealing a cheerleading uniform. from www.zwire.com
FYI - Amber was held for three hours in jail, until her employer raised the $500 bail. Naturally, there is more to the story. The deputy sherrif is apparently friends with the guy who brought the charges (owner of the uniforms and husband of the cheerleading coach).
simply nuts.
Well... look on the bright side. At least they didn't shoot her 50 times.
This is a complete overreaction by the administration and the cops.
But the cops love to do stupid stuff like this because basically they are thugs and get off on harassing 13 year olds.
The NYPD should be ashamed for their behavior in this matter. Proving once again thare mostly douche bags.
It is not the bad apple in the barrel BS.
It is a rotten barrel with a few good apples.
jeez. don't you think these cops would have something better to do, like arrest some bikers?
her mom's idea for punishment is totally reasonable and appropriate. how totally ridiculous.
edEx and TheEdge probably think she was let off too easy. Maybe a little creative broom sticking, a la Louima, should have been in order, right guys?
Why aren't people blaming the principal of the school who allowed the policemen to come in and arrest the kids? They should just bring back corporal punishment and allow the principal to deliver a wacking without fear of parental lawsuits. Then cops wouldn't need to be called in formally.
they should bring back the ruler or paddle to these kids!
It really isn't that big of a deal. What kid doesn't write on desks?
Make her clean it, yeah. But this (and corporal punishment!) is utterly riddiculous. Our schools have a lot worse problems than this that they should be dealing with.
What about the "stickers all over the classroom" part? What stickers? How many kids were involved? It seems she was mistakenly caught up in some kind of group vandalism thing.
Why do grade schools seem to be cracking down on the most insignificant things. Writing on a desk, dear god!
"The NYPD should be ashamed for their behavior in this matter. Proving once again thare(sic) mostly douche bags."
And this came as a big surprise to you? I mean what do you expect from people with just a high school diploma wanting to risk their lives for $25k/yr. They're either not the sharpest tools in the shed or they're just like getting off on the idea of whacking a heads with their night sticks.
"A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and arrested by the police for writing "okay" on a desk at her Dyker Heights school."
Someone please remind me what it is that makes us better than the terrorists?
Someone alert Rev. Al. This kid is gettin set up by the cops.
What happen to compassion and understanding? I must turn myself in I wrote on my desk so years ago ! OPS ! I have a great cleaner
Lol. That's funny !
Someone got a promotion!
THERE HAS GOT TO BE MORE TO THIS STORY.
This is what happens when you have idiotic zero tolerance policies in schools. Zero tolerance = no foresight and no common sense.
"Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom."
I didn't even realize they could arrest a minor for graffiti
They probably charged her with "possession of a graffiti instrument", too, which is a Class B misdemeanor
The law is just... ugh. Do yourself a favor and move to Canada.
I'd Hit it.
Wow. I'd be in the slammer for years.
I find the parents reaction interesting. It would seem to me it was a bit extreme but all to often the parent does not make the child responsible. What makes this child think she can deface property? raising children to know there are consequence's for every action we choose is the best why to make children think before they act.
Is this the “United States” we are talking about in the year 2007, or Russia and Nazi Germany in the 1940’s?