Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit

https://lemmy.world/post/17435731

Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit - Lemmy.World

Kids can be directly punished if they break a law in the USA?

In Romania(if i remember correctly), you need to be at least 14 to be punished(if it is proven that the person knew what they were doing was illegal). I assumed it was the same in other countries

Land of the free, home of the brave.

Also, she didn’t break any laws.

She wondered aloud what jail would be like. That triggered the arrest. The curious musings of a child, during an interrogation in the absence of her parents or a forensic child psychologist.