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A school cop CHOKEHOLDS a 5-year-old special-needs boy for singing in class.


The taxpayers of Fairfax, Virginia, were informed this week that they would be required to pay tens of thousands of dollars to compensate a school resource officer who lost control of his emotions and assaulted a 5-year-old little child – for singing in Spanish class.

Pamela Ononiwu, a 37-year-old mother of three, recently resolved a lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools for her son's horrific abuse while in their care. Ononiwu's horror began on Oct. 3, 2018, when she went to pick up her son, DO, to take him to a dental appointment.

Ononiwu could hear her kid crying in pain as she approached the principal's office to take him up. He was being assaulted by a policeman — or, more precisely, he was being held in a chokehold.

"To my surprise and dismay, I discovered my kid in a chokehold," Ononiwu stated. "He was being held at a 90-degree angle by this school resource officer. My kid continued trying to free himself, and the tighter the hold became."

Ononiwu said that her maternal instincts kicked in and she requested the police release her son, despite her fear that the officer might pursue her next.

"I constantly pleaded with him to release my son. I was terrified because I wondered, 'Will I also be shot to death while attempting to rescue my son?' "But I told myself it's worth it because I'm not going to stand here and watch my kid die or pass out in front of me," she said.

Eventually, the cop relinquished custody of her son and pushed the child away from him. Equally startling as a big police officer choking a little child was the initial cause for the encounter. When Ononiwu enquired as to why her little child was being handled so violently, she was informed that DO, who suffers from ADHD, was singing too loudly in Spanish class. Seriously.

After the police eventually released her kid, Ononiwu attempted to notify school authorities of her son's ordeal. However, nobody cared. The school authorities had obviously become used to treating youngsters in this way.

"No one considered it terrible that a kid was placed in a chokehold. "There was no empathy," Ononiwu said.

Unbelievably, it wasn't only her kid who was assaulted at school by these villains. Her kid was also placed in a frightening position — which seems to be part of the school's protocol.

"Both my kid and daughter have been restrained and sequestered," she said. "One day, they dragged my daughter. My daughter said that they pulled her into a room, despite the fact that her shoes were still in the corridor."

In her case, which she filed with two other parents who had had similar nightmares, Ononiwu pleaded for an end to harmful behaviours against children with special needs.

"There are other options. There are other methods for doing this. If you assert that a kid needs to work on something, the answer is not to lock them in a room. If I did it at home, they would contact Child Protective Services, so I'm not sure why it's permitted at schools," she said.

As for her son, no amount of money will ever be able to compensate him for the terror he felt that day or the consequences that will very certainly endure the rest of his life.

"He informed me and another adult that he believed the cop was the devil and was terrified of dying," she said.

Regrettably, Ononiwu's experience is not uncommon. As the educational system has grown increasingly reliant on the police state, violence against children has gradually increased over time. Take a look at our archives to see how terrible it really is.

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