Oh No You Didn't! Wrote:
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> Dunbar Teacher Handcuffed, Questioned by Metro
> Transit Police in Front of Her Students
>
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Dunbar-Tea
> cher-Handcuffed-Metro-Transit-Police-Students-2462
> 88141.html
>
> In a case of mistaken identity, Metro Transit
> Police handcuffed and questioned a D.C. teacher in
> front of her students for a crime the students did
> not commit.
>
> Brandi Byrd took 15 history students from Dunbar
> High School to the Holocaust Museum. After getting
> off a train at Mount Vernon Square on their way
> back to school, the students were shocked to see
> their teacher pushed against a wall.
>
> "I’m like, 'That’s a woman. Why are you being
> so aggressive with her?'" Carlton Green said.
>
> Byrd couldn’t believe it either. "I’ve never
> been held against my will anywhere," she said.
>
> Metro police said they were responding to a report
> of an assault, and the students matched the
> description.
>
> “I told him. I identified who I was,” Byrd
> said. "'I’m a teacher. These are my students.
> We’re returning from a field trip.'"
>
> But police held her for 20 minutes, and students
> recorded the incident on their cellphones.
>
> "At no point did the gentleman who put me in
> handcuffs tell me why I was in handcuffs," she
> said.
>
> He only said she was being detained because of an
> active investigation, Byrd said.
>
> Byrd became agitated and disorderly while police
> tried to figure out who the kids were, Metro
> officials said, but Byrd denied being any kind of
> threat and said police went too far by putting her
> in cuffs.
>
> Police let the group go when they figured out it
> was not the group they wanted.
>
> Byrd feels violated and said it still hurts where
> the metal handcuffs were clamped around her
> wrists.
>
> Watch the news video here along with the arrest
> caught on the student's cell phones...
>
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Dunbar-Tea
> cher-Handcuffed-Metro-Transit-Police-Students-2462
> 88141.html
off topic please