Cincinnati Police Suspends Officers Accused of Handcuffing 5-Year-Old

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7GW7ID8E.html

CINCINNATI (AP) - Two officers accused of handcuffing a 5-year-old boy after a fight on a school bus have been suspended from police duties while the city investigates the allegations, authorities said.

Chief Tom Streicher assigned officers Douglas Snider and Kaneshia Howell to desk work Tuesday and took away their guns, police officials said. Mekel Finch, the boy's mother, sued the police department, the bus company and the driver in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on April 29. She is asking for more than $50,000.

The lawsuit claims the driver improperly detained the boy - allegedly grabbing the child around the neck and wrapping her legs around him before calling for aid - after the boy was struck by another child on the bus Jan. 13.

The lawsuit also claims the boy was hiding under a seat when Snider and Howell arrived and put him in handcuffs "for an unreasonable amount of time." The child wasn't charged.

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1. We don't miss Cincinnati a bit!

SO glad to leave the land of Marge Schott 3+ years ago. Every night on the news, there was either some new priest/kid molestation scandal, or a case of the cops beating the crap out of someone DWB (Driving While Black).

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2. Children should not be handcuffed by uniformed thugs

...as I've said before and been lambasted for so saying.

None-the-less it is true, and marks more than anything else our transition to a police state. If we will accept our children being treated in this fashion, we will put up with anything: especially with having the children of Non-Mericans taken away and executed (along with their families).

It has happened before. Now it will happen here.

Might read Sinclair Lewis's prescient novel: "It Can't Happen Here" written in 1935