Video: Kentucky officer handcuffs disabled boy
A crying third-grader boy with disabilities was handcuffed by a school resource officer in the US state of Kentucky in the fall of 2014, shows a video released by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The video accompanies a federal lawsuit, which was filed on Monday by the ACLU, the Children's Law Center, and Dinsmore & Shohl on behalf of two children against the Kenton County Sheriff's Office in Covington, Kentucky.
The officer, in violation of the US Constitution and Americans with Disabilities Act, handcuffed the 8-year-old boy as well as a 9-year-old girl, both of whom were disabled, reads the lawsuit.
"As a result of being subjected to unnecessary and excessive handcuffing, plaintiffs experienced pain, fear, and emotional trauma, and an exacerbation of their disabilities," it states.
The video shows that the officer handcuffs the crying boy’s biceps behind his back leaving him in pain for 15 minutes because of behavior related to his disabilities, the ACLU said.
The boy, who weighs about 50 pounds, has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a history of trauma, the group added.
It can be heard in the video that the officer tells the boy, "You don't get to swing at me like that". It shows the officer shackling the poor boy, who starts to cry, saying he is getting hurt.
Although the use of shackles on youth in courtrooms, schools and treatment centers is controversial, at least 100,000 children are shackled in the country annually, said David Shapiro, a campaign manager at the Campaign Against Indiscriminate Juvenile Shackling.
According to a 2009 report by the US Government Accountability Office, there had been hundreds of cases of abuse and death caused by the use of shackles and seclusion on school children over twenty years.
And, there are at least 20 allegations involving restraints which resulted in death, the office said.
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