5-Year-Old Handcuffed, Charged With Battery On Officer
5-Year-Old Handcuffed, Charged With Battery On Officer
December 5, 2011
Source: KCRA
STOCKTON, Calif. Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.
Michael Davis is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. His mother says it has led to fights at school. But when the school district said it had a plan to change Michael’s behavior, his mother says things went wrong.”Michael is energetic,” Thelma Gray said. “He is one big ball of energy.
“Gray calls Michael a comedian. She says his biggest problem is his ADHD stops him from thinking before he acts or speaks.
“He’s very loving,” Gray said. “He’s a good kid and he’s not the discipline problem that he was made out to be.
“Those discipline problems include fights with other students, even throwing a chair.Gray says the school, Rio Calaveras Elementary of Stockton, wanted to change that behavior by having Michael meet with a school police officer.
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