Trauma of autistic boy shackled by police (UK)

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Appalling story, no apology to the family, severe effects on the victim, police appealed wasting lots of taxpayers money (thankfully the appeal was rejected). And I thought we were a "first world" country, no excuse for this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/1 ... tistic-boy

So ... the police were called because some kid was staring at the water in a swimming pool. That's what I get from this article.

What the f***!

Exactly. It's made me so mad. Clearly the police overreacted (as obviously did the pool owners, who could have spoken to his carers, why call in the police!) and went in very heavy-handed. The term "police brutality" was invented for a reason.

The rest of the story makes me equally angry too, the public money they wasted on appealing (the damn cheek and ignorance they had in appealing at all), failure to apologise to the family, failure to recognise what hell they put that boy through, ignorance of SENs, failure to allow training of police, assumptions that he was some sort of threat/deviant/weirdo etc. I could go on.

I completely agree. I don't understand how some people can be this cruel or this stupid. It makes no sense whatsoever. Heck, I think the average person would be traumatized if they had to go through that.

Well darn talk about bad things right there, I think just hope the kid does okay after all that.

I'm relieved that at least the ruling "rejected every aspect of" the appeal by the police commisioner and the disgrace of the police is made public.

Still it's disgusting that anyone could be so inhumane. To make it worse, it took five years and public money for the police to finally be forced to admit that they did something wrong by the ruling. I think that for the police commisioner saving face is more important than the dignity and well-being of an innocent person or than how public money is spent.

Epilepsy responds to stress?

Strangely enough; the alias given for the boy is "Josh", which actually happens to be my name XD.

But yeah. WTF!?!?