Recent comments from 'SpectrumMommy'
| Police need consequences | |
| SpectrumMommy Tuesday, April 20, 2010: 12:47 pm |
I agree with every point except the "Big Brother" time. If I were the boy or his mother I wouldn't want these two near him. As the parent of a special needs child I'd be happy to meet with these two officer to explain autism spectrum disorder and how it may effect a child or an adult's personality and behavior. April is autism awareness month I think all law enforcement agencies should have speakers for their officers to learn these things. Someone with autism would not respond to an officer's requests like a normal functioning person would. This boy may not be autistic but there's obviously SOME underlying issue here. How bout it MPD? I'd even do it for free :) |
| Excessive force unnecessary | |
| SpectrumMommy Tuesday, April 6, 2010: 1:52 pm | Sorry about the typos apparently I didn't have enough coffee this am :-p |
| Excessive force unnecessary | |
| SpectrumMommy Tuesday, April 6, 2010: 1:47 pm | I don't think anyone knows for sure the parent situation. One article said he was ain foster care and I read somewhere that his foster mother worked at the daycare, but again I just don't know the truth of the matter about his home situation. Foster parents can abuse the children in their care just as biological parents can. The sad truth is just as some people should not be parents, soem should not be fosters. There are unfortunately people who take in foster children for their own benefit and not to help the child. Paramedics should have been called to the scene if the child was that out of control. |
| Mayor suspends officers without pay | |
| SpectrumMommy Tuesday, April 6, 2010: 1:33 pm | There are bad parents and bad children but that's not the issue. The issue is whether the force that was used was appropriate or not for these two officers to use against a 94 lb child. I'm not quite 30 and when I was a child my father used a leather belt on me as did many of my peer's parents. Some of my peers got worse. I think maybe it's not that back in the good ole days parents punished their kids the right way and today they're scared to do so but that perhaps parents today remember their childhoods and want to be better parents than theirs were. I think we all aspire to be better parents than we had even if we thought ours did a great job. 'Back in the day' stealing was a hanging offense but our society has changed since then. |
| Furniss should not keep his job | |
| SpectrumMommy Tuesday, April 6, 2010: 7:48 am |
you work for martinsville PD then huh? apt username |
| Jones says he offers fresh perspective for sheriff’s office | |
| SpectrumMommy Monday, April 5, 2010: 7:53 pm |
wow... just wow. i hope you haven't been breeding! calling a grieving family member names makes you look so intelligent and will surely make people listen to your opinion. *sarcasm* what's up with all the very low ratings given to the people who like this canidate or the one complaining about how the jail is run? looks odd to me that there are more positive comments for this guy than not but all the good comments have such low ratings. suspicious me thinks. obviously the guys in charge now are doing such a wonderful job what with the child abuse by officers, dirty jail facilities, and someone dying in the jail's care why on earth would we need any change? *more sarcasm* |
| Pet owner receives unpleasant lesson | |
| SpectrumMommy Monday, April 5, 2010: 7:41 pm | I worked for Morgan Co Humane for several years. While they are almost always VERY overcrowded and I understand the need to move animals due to space, I also know that part of the overcrowding issue is that a few of the board members are so against euthanasia they will keep obviously sick or aggressive animals that are unadoptable. While I hated to put down any of the animals, letting one live in a small cage or kennel for months on end when it's obviously not adoptable is much crueler in my eyes than humanely putting the animal down. I've seen medium and large dogs kept in dog crates to LIVE in for weeks and months at a time except for the hour or so they're placed outside for cleaning, the crates piled on top of one another. Very sick cats that obviously had little to know chance of making it kept in their 'sick room' for months on end until they finally died alone, scared, and in agony instead of being put down humanely and quickly by someone who cared for them in their last moments. While some of the board members, volunteers, and employees truly meant well and did the best they could, they could only do so much when getting roadblocked by those board members who were going by their own beliefs and agenda instead of the animals' best intrests. |
| Mayor suspends officers without pay | |
| SpectrumMommy Monday, April 5, 2010: 7:16 pm | yes! finally a wee bit of common sense and justice! i only hope this isn't just to placate the obviously outraged public and the final outcome is justice for this boy as well |
| Three people charged with disorderly conduct in fight | |
| SpectrumMommy Sunday, April 4, 2010: 8:27 pm | Officers take note- appropriate use of a taser! 2 grown men well over old enough to know better not complying with police instructions. I feel for the poor funeral home employee though. He was just trying to help and while it's not exactly his job description to break up fights it's his job to make the service go smoothly etc. I wonder if he was in the way at the wrong time or if the officers thought he was involved? My father and sister are both buried in South Park and I'm bothered that their final resting place was disturbed in such a juvenille manner. I can only imagine what the other family members must feel about this going on during a loved one's goodbye. Condolences to the rest of the family... for your loss as well as for having idiot family members. |
| Let the investigation play out before judging | |
| SpectrumMommy Sunday, April 4, 2010: 7:53 pm | jimbob I assure you I am not one of those parents that thinks 'whooping' a child is abuse when it's done not to physically harm the child but to get their attention when nothing else works. Yes I do believe there is a line between abuse and discipline. So you don't? Are you saying a child should be hit as hard as a parent can hit them? would you say blacking a child's eye is ok for any offense at all? Spanking to discipline is a parent's choice but it should not be done with the intent to cause physical harm. Adults who do that are hitting the child because THEY'RE angry not to teach the child right from wrong. I do spank when i deem it necessary and talking or other methods don't work. My father used a belt on me but I would never do that with my child because it's excessive and just plain MEAN. That only teaches fear, not what is correct behavior. The officer basically punished this child by doing exactly what the child had done- hit another person. In any case, this was not a parent's discipline, it was a law enforcement officer. Someone paid to "protect and serve" the public, including the child. The officer had no right to smack this child in the face. This was not a 'whooping' it was an adult losing control of his emotions... Just as the child lost control of his and acted out by hitting. The difference being one is an adult and one is a child. |
| Let the investigation play out before judging | |
| SpectrumMommy Sunday, April 4, 2010: 1:07 pm |
Sounds to me like perhaps you need to be taught the fear of a male larger than you assaulting you. You seem to have the same problem as the child in the 'running of the mouth department' If you have children and condone treatment of them in this manner I feel for them and hope they are removed from your custody sir. |
| Martinsville police officers suspended for alleged use of Taser on boy | |
| SpectrumMommy Sunday, April 4, 2010: 12:33 pm |
In an article here on this site it's stated that it was a sexual battery charge. That reads to me that this (very large) man "imposed his will" in a sexual manner on someone. Whether on duty or at his part time job, this is not behavior I want to see in someone wearing a badge whose job it is to protect and serve. Even off duty officers are role models to the public. Sexual battery should never be ok no matter your position. |
| Two charged with drug possession | |
| SpectrumMommy Sunday, April 4, 2010: 12:14 pm | Why does the topic have people bringing religion into it? The debate has nothing to do with religion it's about law and politics! Not everyone is Christian or even religious. I respect other people's beliefs and I expect my beliefs or lack thereof to be respected as well. That said, I have to say I mostly agree with My Thoughts. I'm sure that'll make some of you jump to the conclusion that I must be a Godless druggie which is far from the truth. However it being America you may believe what you choose. As can I. Personally I believe alcohol to be more destructive to the person and society as a whole than marijuana. I would much rather be on the road with someone under the influence of marijuana than alcohol. I'd much rather (if anything at all) that my child when an adult chose marijuana and not alcohol. I believe ecstacy, meth, crack, cocaine, LSD and any other synthetic drugs I may be forgetting are horrible and should not be used by anyone. These drugs kill people and ruin lives. So does alcohol. So do prescription drugs that are abused by the people they are prescribed to help. Can anyone show me proof of a marijuana overdose? No because it isn't possible. Should it be used when driving, operating heavy machinery, while at your place of employment or while children are in your care? Absolutely not. Neither should alcohol or prescription drugs that alter your ability to function. You know the saying guns don't kill people people do? Well marijuana hasn't killed anyone, but people making poor or evil choices do. |
| Furniss should not keep his job | |
| SpectrumMommy Saturday, April 3, 2010: 11:50 pm | corruption abounds in martinsville's leaders. whole system needs an overhaul |
| Cars, IDs, guns taken from officers | |
| SpectrumMommy Saturday, April 3, 2010: 11:19 pm | Why is someone who was brought up on a sex offense charge on the police force? I don't care that the charges were dropped. that sounds fishy to me anyhow I'd like to know the full story behind that I think the citizens he's supposed to be protecting and serving have a right to know. Do they not do backround checks on these officers? I also wonder what disiplinary charges the 2 officers have. Shouldn't that be public knowledge as well? Correct me if I'm wrong but a citizen's charge in court is public knowledge even arrests before convicted of the crime is published in this newspaper... why aren't the officer's wrongdoings made public? |
| Let the investigation play out before judging | |
| SpectrumMommy Saturday, April 3, 2010: 11:00 pm | There was no excuse for such excessive force to be used on anyone who was unarmed. An adult male who acted in the same manner should not have been smacked PERIOD. That is assault. As for use of a taser it should be a last resort, used only in the most dire of situations. Ex: subject has a weapon. If this child had a knife or firearm, by all means, taser him. He's a danger to himself, the public and the officers. This was an out of control 94 lb subject. He cursed, spit and kicked according to the info. Which of those things made him so dangerous that a weapon which is KNOWN to cause death was used? I'm 120 lbs wet and I can hold a 94 lb person in a manner that they cannot harm themselves, me, or anyone else. There are holding techniques that should have been used in this case, none of which would should have caused more than bruising. In my opinion had they used physical force to hold him down until he was handcuffed and he was bruised, that would be a shame but understandable. My daughter has autism and went to that daycare for about a week before I quit using their services because it was obvious the staff had no business dealing with a special needs child. If there were prior instances with this kid, why was he still going there? They can deny the parents services if the child is a danger to the other children. And why were the parents/foster parents not called but police were brought in more than once? Obviously this was more than an 'unruly child' or a temper tantrum out of control. This child may be autistic or have some psych issue. Having 2 strange men confront him by assaulting him and threatening him with a weapon would surely just escalate the issue if he has mental health probs. These men are child abusers and abusers of their power. They should not only be kicked from the force but jailed. I think this is a case of 2 men with little man syndrome... if you catch my drift ;) good job guys you're so manly! |
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