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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 95 - 6-year-old arrested for tantrum at school

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The United States may be the only nation in the world where a 6-year-old child could be handcuffed, arrested, put in a police car, finger printed, and jailed over a tantrum they had in class. And that is exactly what happened last week in Orlando, Florida. This case exposes exactly what the school to prison pipeline looks like and on today’s episode Shaun digs into the extent to which Black girls are criminalized in our schools and in our society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On this past Thursday at a local charter school in Orlando, Florida, a six-year-old

0:06.8

girl was handcuffed, arrested, put in a police car, fingerprinted, had a mug shot, and jailed over a tantrum she had in class.

0:19.1

It's despicable. I spoke with experts this weekend who said that the United States may be the

0:24.4

only nation in the world where such a thing would ever happen. We just learned

0:30.4

that the same school and the same officer did this to another 8 year old for

0:35.8

a completely different incident on the very same day.

0:39.8

This is the literal school to prison pipeline and we must interrupt it. This is Sean King

0:46.7

and you are listening to the breakdown.

0:50.7

The breakdown. The breakdown. Breakdown.

0:53.0

Break down.

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The Breakdown.

0:55.0

The Break down. investigators say the six-year-old and an eight-year-old were both taken into custody

1:09.9

yesterday on unrelated charges. Now Orlando police are launching an internal

1:14.4

investigation into this case. The United States is the incarceration

1:21.1

nation. It's a crisis. Our country has been so criminalized and

1:27.6

that criminalization is so fully baked into thousands and thousands of different systems that we've now reached a

1:36.3

point where school systems are fully permitting police officers to arrest and charge six-year-old girls with crimes for

1:47.0

behaviors that should have received a note sent home or a simple call to her

1:52.1

parents.

1:54.0

Now what I'm about to say will likely surprise you.

1:57.2

Yes, the officer in this case, Dennis Turner of the Orlando, Florida Police Department. Yes, he is to blame. We've since

2:06.1

learned that he was once arrested for brutally beating his own seven-year-old

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