HANDCUFFING ELEMNTARY SCHOOL KIDS WITH ADHD

The ACLU has created a shitstorm of outrage over the handcuffing of an 8-year-old boy by a Covington, Kentucky sheriff’s deputy

Kenton County Deputy Sheriff Kevin Sumner has been assigned as a resource officer to the Covington, Kentucky Independent Public Schools. The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the deputy and his department for violating the civil rights of two elementary school students with ADHD by hand cuffing them above the elbows with their hands behind their backs. Both incidents occurred last year.

This week the ACLU released a video showing Summer handcuffing an 8-year-old boy at Latonia Elementary School. Seven minutes of the video showed the boy the boy howling in pain, kicking his feet and fidgeting in his seat. According to school records, the boy remained cuffed for 15 minutes.

The boy had been giving his teacher a lot of trouble. Summer said he cuffed the boy because he tried to hit him. And he had to cuff him above the elbows because his wrists were too small for the handcuffs.

On the video the boy is heard yelling “God! Ow, that hurts!” as Summer tightened the cuffs.

“You don’t get to swing at me like that,” Sumner says. “We can do what we tell you to, or you can suffer the consequences.” When the boy pleaded for the cuffs to be removed, Summer told him, “It’s your decision to behave this way. If you want the handcuffs off, you’re going to have to behave and ask me nicely. As long as you’re acting up, you’re not gonna get them off.”

The ACLU lawsuit accuses Summer of cuffing a 9-year-old girl the sane way earlier that year.

Now that video has gone viral and half the country is out raged.

The Kenton County sheriff is standing behind Deputy Summer, stating that he followed department procedure.

I know it looks bad when police officers handcuff young children, but that is done to protect the officer from being injured or the child from injuring himself. Of course, the people outraged by the video have never walked in the shoes of a cop and they do not realize that even a child can inflict a serious injury on a cop. And that goes double for a kid with ADHD.