Girl claims injuries inflicted by school officer
Dougherty County School Police are investigating a complaint of excessive force against a sixth grade girl arrested for protesting having her picture taken. Her father shows scratches on 11-year-old Treneashe Graddy’s neck and back. She says she was thrown to the ground and arrested at Southside Middle School yesterday. When school officials tried to take her picture for school identification, she refused because her hair was not fixed. School Police Lt. Laniece Pope tried to force the girl to take the picture, and handcuffed and arrested her when she resisted.
OK, let’s examine the worst case scenario and assume the girl was a little a-hole. So What? Why should she be forced to get a picture ID in the first place?
It’s sounds like your schools are modeled on the prison system. Are these “school cops” armed? What’s unbelievable is you all seem to be ok with this.
Having worked in a school system before, I know JUST how bad those kids can get. It’s almost as though they’re begging to get arrested to earn some unspoken “badge of honor.”
Sadly, many (not all) school resource officers are the officers who aren’t fit for patrol duty for whatever reason: previous injuries on the job, too many problems with the captain, etc.
#21 Yes, Jim… They’re armed, and you can bet the kids are, too.
Clarification to my statement above: I know a number of these school officers, and many of them are excellent at their jobs. Patrol duty may be one thing, but I do see the students respond to them (usually).
Tabloid journalism reigns supreme once again on DU! Change the name to the Dvorak Enquirer and you won’t get filtered!
Where’s the other side of this story?
When has a camera and the possibility of a million dollar lawsuit ever stood in the way of the truth?
A friend of mine came home to Ireland because he didn’t want his kids educated in the US. I can see why. It sounds just desperate.
Alfred1 you really are an idiot and a troll.
We should not be surprised that our nation is becoming a police state because our schools are becoming more and more like prisons.
Police guards and zero tolerance policies do not engender an academic atmosphere.
Have gun, will murder, as the old police saying goes.
Book ‘er, Dan-o!
The sad part is they had to take her picture for the mug shot…
Couldn’t the officer have just lightly tasered her?
Not all schools in the US are like this – in fact *most* of them are not.
I wish someone would study the phenomena of adults working at a school suddenly acting like children.This seems to happen on a regular basis.
For our overseas visitors. Yes we have real police officers in our schools. Not renta cops. Most schools have metal detectors at the doors also. This is because our children have not learned to respect authority. They believe they can disrespect teachers and even harm them physically with impunity. More often than not their parents encourage this mindset. I will bet this family will get some money unfortunately.
There’s of course nothing to worry about here. After all, the cop was clearly physically threatened by the little girl. It must have been so scary for him.
And, on the off chance this little child was (and this is hard to believe) not a threat to the well trained and armed policeman – and if he did (ever so slightly I’m sure) step out of bounds, I’m sure the review of his actions (conducted by his co-workers and friends in government) will expose it all. Heck, he may face a few days off with pay.
Poor fellow. And I know I feel so much safer with that thin blue line between us and the vicious children doing up their hair.
She may have crossed the line and gone after a donut.
Why not just taze her?
# 35 Steve,
I am sure he was reaching for it, but they don’t issue tazers to school cops; as you can image why.
You can tell by the photo, she is dangerous.
Google 11 year old murderers, and you’ll get hits galore…
Obviously Security should be better equipped to subdue these undisciplined brats who are a danger to the community.
Along With better weapons, they should be deputized so the protections against frivolous lawsuits will extend to them.
Perhaps cameras set up, as in Police cars, so when the little bastards get violent, they get nailed…and their parents prosecuted for raising such undisciplined brats.
Troublemaker #9 – Since I’m a moron, I didn’t quite get if I was moron because I didn’t think cops were bad, or because I thought they too-often get carried away with power-tripping and getting the last word. Please write slowly so I’ll understand.
#37 Alfred1
Exactly! Just look at her, it’s obvious that she is a murderous villain. I mean, it’s clear just looking at her face.
Too bad the cop didn’t use his gun. One less undisciplined brat to be a danger to your community.
“School police are investigating….”
This bothers me as much as the incident. It’s time the police stopped investigating themselves. This calls for a civilian investigation board.
Also, I believe parents should be required to sign permission slips for such an ID program. This smacks a little of “Big Brother”. Sure, it’s for the protection of the students. But suppose a parent has already elected to insert a tracking device under the skin of their child? Why should they be required to submit to another ID system? I’m always leery of “state sanctioned” ID programs where the checks and balances are in the hands of the people pushing for the program.