A student from the Graham Park Middle School in Dumfries, Virginia, was accosted and handcuffed by a county police officer after he was accused of stealing milk from the cafeteria on May 10. He was charged with larceny and was suspended by the school. However, his mom is outraged by what happened since the boy is in the free lunch program. The milk he apparently took is actually free.
"I don't have no understanding as to why he is being charged with larceny when he was entitled to that milk from the beginning," said Shamise Turk via WKRC Cincinnati. She expressed anger and frustration over the incident involving her son, Ryan, and believed that school authorities went too far.
The officer who caught the boy "stealing" a carton of 65-cent milk said that Ryan was actually disorderly during the reprimand. He apparently tried to hide the milk and attempted to pull back from the officer, which is why they had to put cuffs on him, per Pix 11. But Ryan denied he was concealing the milk and he was only reacting to the officers because they should be recognizing that he wasn't stealing the milk due him.
Criminal indoctrination? Ryan Turk black teen arrested for stealing free school milk https://t.co/3gdGdK5Gly #Graham Park Middle School
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Ryan was then sent to the principal's office as he was cuffed, but because he was fidgety and pulling on the strings of his pants, the police also tried to search him for drugs. He's now suspended because of the theft, his disrespectful behavior and for using his cellphone while in school. Ryan is awaiting his trial at Juvenile Court.
The school stands by their disciplinary action on Ryan, but his mother defends that her son is sitting at home because of a "ridiculous" 65-cent accusation. The Turk family is fighting against the system via the appeal.
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