A teenager on a field trip to see a Detroit court ended up in jail clothes and handcuffs because a judge said he didn’t like her attitude.

A teenager on a field trip to see a Detroit court ended up in jail clothes and handcuffs because a judge said he didn’t like her attitude.

Judge Kenneth King even asked other kids in the courtroom Tuesday whether the 16-year-old girl should be taken to juvenile detention, WXYZ-TV reported.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    207·
    3 months ago

    If I got arrested for every time I fell asleep on a boring field trip, I’d have been arrested 0 times. Because Texas doesn’t fund education.

  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1171·
    3 months ago

    Don’t worry guys, the judge offered to be that girl’s mentor. Asked her parents and all, so he sees no problem with this usage of power. You can absolutely trust him to be alone with a child and “teach her right”

  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
    1071·
    3 months ago

    Teens are constantly sleepy because that’s how teens work. School start times especially make it impossible to for them to get proper sleep. I’d say it’s ridiculous that someone who has authority over teens doesn’t understand the fucking basics of teens but it’s the Us criminal justice system where authority is made up and the credentials don’t matter.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
      53·
      3 months ago

      Just not the lesson he intended. Always good to learn that the justice system is against you and will abuse it’s power to “make an example” of you.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      201·
      3 months ago

      Separation of powers. Executive has the DOJ and friends, Congress has the Sgt at arms and Judiciary has contempt. All three are, in theory, immune to interference from the other branches, to allow said branches to defend themselves. Stupid, stupid idea.

  • don@lemm.ee
    38·
    3 months ago

    Put that shitty excuse of a judge in prison so he can reflect on his crimes.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    3 months ago

    “I wanted this to look and feel very real to her, even though there’s probably no real chance of me putting her in jail. That was my own version of ‘Scared Straight,’” King said, referring to a documentary about teen offenders in New Jersey.

    For those unfamiliar, Scared Straight! was roundly debunked after the fact as a stupid fucking thing to do which did the opposite of what it was supposed to, and attendees of the program ended up more likely to reoffend.

    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
      16·
      3 months ago

      They even had a “where are they now” at the end of each program that showed it didn’t work.

  • Scrungo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    272·
    3 months ago

    I got put in silent lunch one time because I fell asleep during a guy describing his time in Japan as a teacher by my asshole homeroom teacher (she thought I was acting up because another teacher woke me up and she only saw that). That was unfair and I absolutely hated middle school, but this is a whole new level of fucked.