A teen was falling asleep during a courtroom field trip. She ended up in cuffs and jail clothes

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://apnews.com/article/teen-detroit-field-trip-handcuffs-50ca8b3027ff3f40da0bf7aa98cefeb2

DETROIT (AP) — 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.

King, who works at 36th District Court, defended his actions. “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.

The teen was seeing King’s court as part of a visit organized by The Greening of Detroit, a nonprofit environmental group. During the visit, King noticed the girl falling asleep, WXYZ reported.

[quaint]

1. Judge should be the one in cuffs.

He wants to be her mentor!

[The Magistrate]

2. Words Fail Me

Kids fall asleep, they don't always get enough overnight.

It's no crime to be bored to dozing by the drone of an adult afflicted with a terminal case of self-importance.

[The Magistrate]

9. Hardly A Surprise To Learn the Child Was Homeless

When you're dead-beat someplace safe and warm, you nod off....


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219336162

[PJMcK]

3. Local judges can be fierce

Their courtrooms are their fiefdoms.

Once, my son had to appear in traffic court for a minor accident. I leaned over to him and whispered that he should be really respectful of the judge when he’s called. The judge saw me and upbraided me for distracting him! I told him what I told my son and he threatened me with contempt of court!

In many ways, local judges can act without direct supervision. Most are professional and even compassionate. The rogues give everyone a black eye.

[Tanuki]

4. The kid probably heard that Trump snoozed his way through his own trial

and thought it would be OK.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/trump-manhattan-trial-sleep/678268/

"On Monday, April 15, the first day of the first criminal trial of a former president in American history, the defendant fell asleep. Donald Trump “appeared to nod off a few times, his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest,” Maggie Haberman of The New York Times reported.

It happened again the next day. That Friday, Trump dozed off several times. “His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice,” Haberman noted.

He was no more alert the following Monday. “Trump is struggling to stay awake. His eyes were closed for a short period. He was jolted awake when Todd Blanche, his lawyer, nudged him while sliding a note in front of him,” Susanne Craig reported in the Times.

On Tuesday, April 30, Trump may or may not have been awake; he was sitting with “eyes closed, leaning back in his seat.”

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Just disgusting

This was an pouting for kids to learn about the justice system and this bully chose to use it as a way to terrorize a young girl. I would sue if she were my child. Just absolute nonsense.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[hawkeye21]

7. And we're supposed to respect the "Justice System"? LOL

Once again we see that justice is blind . . . to any form of fairness or common sense.

This judge does THIS bullshit while a guy who tried to overthrow the US government, was convicted of 34 felony counts, who owes many cities around the country tens of thousands of dollars each, and who is charged with numerous other major crimes against his country sashays around the country free as you and me.

I have friends who are police officers. I've worked with lawyers and judges, and while many in these professions are good and honest and fair people, many others are not. The judge in this fiasco should be fired, disbarred, recalled or whatever form of sanction is available.

My outrage is indescribable because this judge will almost certainly get away with it.

[intheflow]

8. I hope her family sues him.

Talk about weaponizing the court system! And where the fuck were the adults on this field trip? So awed by the power of the bench they didn’t stand up for the kid? Disgusting abuse of power!

[ScratchCat]

10. They wouldn't have standing to sue the judge

At most, they could ask another court to review what he did and possibly discipline him, but I doubt this remotely rises to the level that another court would do so.

[edisdead]

11. Emotional distress for starters.