Police officer forcibly bounds 5 yr old boy with cable ties

In an attempt by the Rio Calaveras Elementary in Stockton, California to change the behavior of a student with ADHD, school officials arranged for 5-year-old Michael Davis to meet with a school police officer in the hopes that the gathering would leave the sometimes-too-aggressive Davis "scared straight."



Instead, the officer bound his hands and feet with cable ties, charged him with battery on a police officer, and forced him to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

Lieutenant Frank Fordo wrote in the police report that, after placing his hand on Davis, the boy "pushed my hand away ... pushed papers off the table, and kicked me in the right knee."

Instead of calling Davis' mother, Fordo bound the boy's hands and feet, and took him to the hospital.

"I didn't know until two or three weeks later that my son was cable tied," Davis's mother Thelma Gray told the station. Both the police chief and the school district declined to give a comment.

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