There was an interesting news story the other day that may or may not
reflect society's confusion about it's own identity. Might it show that
society has no real identity, or at least no shared one. In Miami,
Florida police have arrested a
7-year-old boy accused of hitting his teacher. A police report stating
Mercy Álvarez’s son (sonny boy's identity is not revealed to protect
him due to his youth) was handcuffed last Thursday
for hitting the teacher. The first-grader slugger was then hospitalized
under
the Florida Mental Health Act for a psychiatric evaluation for
"evaluation". I thought little kids hitting anyone was somewhat a norm
from time to time?
Slugger was later
discharged. The initial reason the slugging child began punching the
teacher was
that he was taken out of the cafeteria for playing with his food. (must
have been broccoli day). He then
“attacked the teacher by repeatedly punching her on the back” until the
two fell to the ground. Schools Police Chief Ian Moffett says the
department's response was standard. But the slugger's mom is fighting
mad (oh no!). Slugger Mom Álvarez says the incidents are
“police abuse.” That's not a new one these days. Whenever police arrest
someone who is not male and Caucasian the cry of police abuse will be
toned by some.
It was the second time in less than three months that school
authorities punished her son by calling the police for behavioral
problems. It seems that two strikes and slugger is out, as far as
police are concerned. Is this whole thing a bit idd and a bit
overblown? Mom says that little slugger had a tantrum, for sure. But
mom Álvarez considers arresting nd cuffing him was
disproportionate and outrageous. “This is police abuse; a whim of the
officer, because my son was
calm when they came to look for him,” said mom. “The
principal, the counselor, and two other people tried to prevent that
action and the officer took my child anyway.” Oh.... Police were also
called on the child for throwing a
tantrum several months ago.
Álvarez says that until she sees the evidence in a surveillance video,
she does not believe that her child is capable of being strong enough
to knock down the teacher. The family believes that the boy is being
bullied and that is why behavior problems arise. Hmmm Now that sounds
like a parent too in defense of a child who has misbehaved badly more
than once. Slugger Mom even says that her son always dreamed of being a
policeman, but these
days “he told me he does not want to be because the police are bad.”
Thank God for that! If Slugger grew up and became a police officer he
might have a body count higher that a Muslim terrorist.
As for the teacher, she is pressing charges against the little boy.
That too seems to me to be over reach. But, as I wrote in the
beginning, society is so confused right is wrong and wrong is right
more often than not. It's because standards of behavior have been too
often been replaced with relative ones. It all confuses me so much it
makes me want to...well...punch a teacher.
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