Detroit judge taken off docket after handcuffing teen who fell asleep in his courtroom during field trip
A Detroit judge has been removed from the docket days after he placed a 15-year-old girl in handcuffs after she fell asleep in his courtroom during a summer field trip.
A Detroit judge has been removed from the docket days after he placed a 15-year-old girl in handcuffs after she fell asleep in his courtroom during a summer field trip.
On Tuesday, a Detroit-based nonprofit organization, the Greening of Detroit, took a group of minors to Judge Kenneth King's courtroom in 36th District Court so they could learn more about the legal happenings in the courtroom.
As the day unfolded, King "chose to make an example of a 15-year-old girl in front of her peers," Colleen Robar, the PR representative for the Greening of Detroit, said in a statement Tuesday.
"He made her wear handcuffs and a jail uniform and yelled at her for falling asleep in his courtroom," Robar said in the statement. "Although the Judge was trying to teach a lesson of respect, his methods were unacceptable."
Robar said that if the judge was unhappy with the conduct of the minors in the courtroom, he should have simply asked them to leave.
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