Girl Arrested for Toting Scissors
A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to school.
School district officials said the fourth-grader did not threaten anyone with the 8-inch shears, but said she violated a rule that deemed scissors to be potential weapons.
Administrators said they were following state law when they called police Thursday, and police said they were following department rules when they handcuffed Porsche Brown and took her away in a patrol wagon.
“My daughter cried and cried,” said her mother, Rose Jackson. “She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh.”
Police officers decided the girl hadn’t committed a crime and let her go.
School officials suspended her for five days. Administrators will decide at a hearing whether she will return to class or be expelled to a disciplinary school.
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