Can a police officer handcuff a six year old child?



You may have seen the video of the 6 year old child being handcuffed in Orlando, Florida. It’s been making its way around the inter webs. I’ve actually researched this issue before, and there was a 2018 case on the handcuffing of a 10 year old here in the 4th Circuit in 2018. I briefly discuss the applicable law, and my opinion. I did a blog post on this on thecivilrightslawyer.com where you can read in more detail, as well as get all the citations, etc.

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33 thoughts on “Can a police officer handcuff a six year old child?”

  1. Unfortunately they can detain a child on school property if they’re a liaison officer especially. I’ve seen it. But generally it was for simple assault or public affray assuming they had a good lawyer. This case however, after having watched the video, the kid was nowhere near what I assumed he was going to be like.

  2. Awe I saw this,it broke my heart,it was so disgusting,she was so scared..How could listen to her cries and watch her be so scared…
    I'm so pleased he got fire and his amenity will have gone..

  3. I can answer that question for my child, NOPE, not without handcuffing me or shooting me for going full on silverback gorilla on you… Especially if you get qualified immunity, nope, I'm ten toes in on that stance…
    It was a female child too, female officers are suppose to arrest females, you know so you don't appear to be a creep…
    Making a child feel like a sex trafficking victim isn't any law I've heard of, child kidnappers don't even do that, they use candy because even they know how fragile a child thinks SMH

  4. That will probably mentally scar that child for the rest of her life…. My question is, were her parents or legal guardians notified before hand , and were they given the chance to respond before the cops were called

  5. All I’ve ever read as far as the laws were broken down by each state, they have different laws on arresting children below certain ages. Here’s a link with some charts n’ graphs that can explain some things. It’s not normal in my opinion and shouldn’t be but that’s why they’re called tyrants lol. https://njdc.info/practice-policy-resources/state-profiles/multi-jurisdiction-data/minimum-age-for-delinquency-adjudication-multi-jurisdiction-survey/

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