Mom Spends Night in Jail for ..... Letting kids play outside 9yr and 6yr olds.

[matefrio]

Makes me afraid of letting my kids play outside. I'd let them play outside at 5 checking on occasion in my front yard. My youngest is 9...

What is an acceptable age to let your kids play outside??? Mom sues police over arrest | News - Home

Tammy Cooper said she was wrongly accused of endangering her children and was even forced to spend the night in jail, all because she let her kids play outside.
She said her children, ages 9 and 6, were riding their motorized scooters in the cul-de-sac where they live while she watched from a lawn chair in her front yard just a few feet away.
"I was out there the entire time," Cooper said. "I never left that lawn chair the entire time."
Cooper said a little while later, a La Porte police car pulled up in front of her home.
"I went out there to see what he was here for and he said, 'Ma'am, we're here for you.' I said, 'Oh really? Why?' He proceeded to tell me he had received a call from one of my neighbors that my kids were riding their scooters unsupervised.

Cooper said she was handcuffed, put in the back of a police car and forced to spend the night in jail.
"Orange jumpsuit, in a cell, slammed the door, for 18 hours," Cooper said.
The charges against her were eventually dropped but she still describes the ordeal as humiliating and said her children were even questioned by police and terrified.

 

[Charlie]

Seems like a little overkill from what information we see. Any statement from the police?

 

[Dawico]

What a load of crap. She shouldn't have been arrested for that.

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

Smh, my parents would have gotten fried for some of the crap we did as kids, it definitely is a different world now and days.

 

[smtimelevi]

Un fucking believeable. That officer and police dept needs to do some time for that non sense and loose some stripes. Police States of America

 

[75165]

Man the times have changed since i was a kid, so you can go to jail for your kid playing outside, and this is the reason why all these kids are obease and stay inside and play video games all day. I'm scared to see what it will be like in 10 years.

 

[smtimelevi]

10 years YOU wont be allowed outside. For your own safety of course...

 

[75165]

10 years YOU wont be allowed outside. For your own safety of course...

I can totally see that happening,

 

[smtimelevi]

I can totally see that happening,

As can I.

Cold Dead Hands

 

[M. Sage]

I've heard about La Porte PD... This doesn't exactly surprise me.

 

[Greg_TX]

Damn, what are we supposed to do - wrap them in bubble-wrap? Sounds like a neighbor feud, and the cop is a friend or relative of the complainant.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Maaaan, that's just one more thing for me to worry about as a single dad. It's already tough enough trying to make sure I'm following a strict set of rules when in public so my son doesn't get taken from me, but now I gotta stay 5 feet behind him when he plays out front? What's next-I need to be in his room with him while he plays to make sure he doesn't hurt himself there too?

 

[Greg_TX]

Careful - those Legos have some pretty sharp edges. Really makes you wonder and worry about the generation of people the nanny state wants to raise - so risk averse that any possibility of harm is unacceptable. Makes for obedient, pacifist citizens, hmm?

 

[hkusp1]

Seriously?

 

[Mike D Texas]

The neighbor who called in and the cops who made the arrest need to be kicked in the taint until their nose bleeds.

That's ridiculous.


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[Texasjack]

Gotta be more to the story, but anyway you look at it this was completely stupid.

I've go "one of those neighbors" that yells at anyone who lets their kid ride a bicycle. His wife finally had enough and is divorcing him, so the house is up for sale and the entire neighborhood is trolling for potential buyers.

 

[Das Jared]

I've heard about La Porte PD... This doesn't exactly surprise me.

This. If I have to go in that direction, I will do my absolute best to avoid that area

 

[grasshopperglock]

The cops were mindless drones. How in the hell could they think that the mother needed to be arrested?


Police State is right

 

[40Arpent]

How in the hell could they think that the mother needed to be arrested?

Because she had two empty bottles of Boone's Farm Tickle Pink laying in the grass next to her lawn chair, drunk off her ass, yelling vulgarities at the neighbors, and became beligerant, offensive, and resistant when the officers tried to question her. Just saying that we don't know the whole story.

 

[CZ guy]

There evidently is a lot more to the story. Channel 2 news said in their report "In addition, officers did contact the Harris County District Attorney's Office while on the scene that evening, upon which their Office accepted charges of Abandoning a Child on Ms. Cooper."

I wonder what was uncovered that the DA decided to drop charges? They first tell officers to arrest, then let her go. Strange event for sure.