Hispanic Girl handcuffed and arrested at school for fight with girl

It started as a shoving incident, and then one of the two girls was suspended for two days. But then parents of the girl who wasn't suspended simply were not satisfied with Cy-Fair's punishment so they filed a complaint and had the other student arrested. "I don't know what kind of games these guys are playing but you don't do that to an 11-year-old girl," said said W.R. Morris of Hispanic Policy Action. The 11-year-old girl was arrested, handcuffed, photographed and fingerprinted after she was picked up from Walker Elementary. She and her mom say there had been a shoving incident last week. She says the other girl wound up with a bloody nose, that she was suspended for two days and thought it would end there. "This girl has never been in trouble," Morris of said. "At an administrative meeting the little girl agreed that she had pushed her first and now she's on the receiving end of all this." The fifth-grader told us what the deputy constable did when she was arrested. "They made me put my hands behind my back and then they put those things on me," she recalled. "I had to walk out of school right next to the car and they handcuffed me next to the car and then went inside the car." The mom said her daughter was shocked that officers actually arrested and handcuffed her over the shoving incident that resulted in a bloody nose to the other student. "Procedurally, it's something we try to stay away from, but for the safety of the officer and the child, handcuffs are a requirement by department policy," said Lt .Tim Cannon with Precinct 4. KTRK legal analyst Joel Androphy questions why the girl was arrested and handcuffed. "The officers decide who's handcuffed and who's arrested," Androphy explained. "You don't arrest an 11-year-old girl period. This girl's not charged with murder, with some heinous felony. She's not a danger and that will be clearly established later." The 11-year old girl was charged with a class A misdemeanor. A juvenile judge will assess the punishment. [more] and [more]