Flabbergasted (kids arrested)

[SepiaAndDust]

Evidently, several children ranging in age from 6 to 11 were arrested in Murfreesboro. Arrest warrants, handcuffs, the whole bit.

For not breaking up a fight that had occurred days earlier.

Kids' arrest outrages Murfreesboro community

4:12 p.m. CDT April 20, 2016 - Police handcuffed multiple students, ages 6 to 11, at a public elementary school in Murfreesboro on Friday....

The arrests at Hobgood Elementary School occurred after the students were accused of not stopping a fight that happened several days earlier off campus.

It remains unclear exactly how many children were arrested. State law prohibits the release of juvenile law enforcement records, and police have denied a media request for the information. Murfreesboro police didn't say what state law the kids violated, but parents of several of the arrested children say the kids were charged with "criminal responsibility for conduct of another," which according to Tennessee criminal offense code includes incidents when a "person fails to make a reasonable effort to prevent" an offense.

A video was taken of the incident, and officers later obtained arrest warrants for students who did not break up the disturbance, said the Rev. James McCarroll, pastor of First Baptist Church. Information about who took the video and how the police obtained it is not clear.

- Source

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Just wow.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

A more... visual... take on it:

 

[SummerMadness]

Seeing this story is quite ridiculous. Arresting a 6-year old for not stopping a fight?

 

[JackRT]

I have to wonder if this was a set-up on the part of concerned parents.

 

[Murby]

If this isn't a joke or fake story of some sort, the police are going to be sued out of business by the ACLU.
It is possible that the media isn't telling us the whole story.. If these kids set up this fight, sold tickets or invited others or in some way organized this fight, then its a legitimate arrest.. if not, the cops are in deep manure.

No citizen of the USA has a duty or obligation to involve themselves in the defense of others or act as referee's in any way.. Especially a child. This is the job of the police, not citizens.

After watching the video, I understand there is some law in Tenn. that requires someone to break up a fight? HHAHAHAHA.. that's so unconstitutional its not even funny.. This will get blown out of the water at the federal level. No citizen can be compelled to put themselves in harms way by involving themselves in another persons business.

False arrest, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, physiological damage, and a variety of other civil charges will surely ensue shortly.
Whoever authorized this action is going to be out of a job soon.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

It's a real story. The two kids who were actually fighting--5 and 6 years old....

 

[SepiaAndDust]

Y'know... I could see some cop getting a report that "two kids were in a fight" and think that teenagers were involved in a knock-down-drag-out.

That's not what happened here, though. The whole thing started because somebody took a video of the fight. So somebody watched that video, saw a five-year-old and a six-year-old tussling, and then decided to arrest everybody who was there.

 

[DaisyDay]

I have to wonder if this was a set-up on the part of concerned parents.

What do you mean? You think they had their own kids arrested?

 

[Landon Caeli]

Evidently, several children ranging in age from 6 to 11 were arrested in Murfreesboro. Arrest warrants, handcuffs, the whole bit.

For not breaking up a fight that had occurred days earlier.




Just wow.

Someone's been doing some bamboozling.

 

[trunks2k]

What do you mean? You think they had their own kids arrested?

It's not unknown to happen. Sometimes parents will work with police to have their kid arrested and put in jail for a bit (without charges actually being filed) to teach them a lesson. Can't say it's the case here, but it's a possibility.