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An American boy of 11 has been arrested for a school drawing of a stick figure with a gun pointed at four other figures with the words, “Teachers must die”.
Police hauled the youngster from his home in Colorado in handcuffs, took a mugshot, fingerprinted him and then put him in a cell.
The boy, who is being treated for Attention Deficit Disorder, faces a misdemeanour charge of interfering with staff and students.
Tim – not his real name – had been told by his therapist to draw pictures when he got upset, rather than disrupt class.
After doing the drawing in pencil, he felt calmer and threw it away, but a teacher picked it up and sent him to the principal’s office.
The school was aware of the boy’s medical condition and after deciding he was not a threat, notified his parents and sent him back to class.
But that night police arrived at his home and took him away, refusing to let his parents accompany him to the station.
His mother, who wished to remain anonymous, told Fox 31 News: “It was heart-wrenching to see my son, my 11-year-old, walk out the front door in handcuffs and get in the police car. It was violently unfair to the little guy. It’s traumatic.”
His parents said what he did was “inappropriate”, but were outraged by the way police officers handled the case. – Daily Mail.