Politiet i Key West forsøgte at give en 64-pund-8-årig håndjern på. En føderal dommer afviste senere familiens retssag.
KEY WEST, FLORIDA — Officers at Gerald Adams Elementary tried to put steel on an 8-year-old who weighed 64 pounds and stood about 3-and-a-half feet. His wrists were too small. The officer gave up. The boy had allegedly punched a teacher in the chest in the cafeteria over how he was sitting. The teacher had no obvious injury. Police still booked him at the Monroe County Detention Center on felony battery — fingerprints, DNA swab, mugshot, a cell. His mother, Bianca Di Gennaro, fought nearly a year before the Monroe County State Attorney declined to prosecute in October 2019.
Ben Crump stillede det eneste spørgsmål, der betød noget: "Hvorfor ville du gøre det mod et barn? Han er biracial, og du siger bare:" Hvorfor? Hvorfor drillede de ham? " Politichef Sean T. Brandenburg sagde, at standardprocedurer blev fulgt. Julián Castro kaldte det et stunt at "skræmme ham lige".
The clip sat next to the 2019 Orlando booking of 6-year-old Kaia Rolle. Di Gennaro’s federal civil-rights suit named the city, the Monroe County School District, officers, a teacher, and two principals. In March 2021 U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the claims against the three school employees. In June 2021 he sided with the City of Key West and the three officers, finding the brief cuff attempt caused no pain and that the child was walked to the patrol car unrestrained. The courthouse closed. The question did not: whether booking a 64-pound child in a mental-health crisis is a school’s job, or a cop’s.
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