Report raises questions about arrests at elementary school


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A police commander has been placed on administrative leave as a new report raises questions about the chain of events that led to several elementary school children in Tennessee being handcuffed and arrested.

An internal review report released Thursday by the Murfreesboro Police Department says school resource officers raised concerns about the plan to arrest the kids between the age of 9 and 12 at Hobgood Elementary School on April 15, but the schoolchildren were taken into custody anyway. The report addressed the arrests of four children at the school. But a Murfreesboro police spokesman said six other kids were also named in a juvenile court petition.

Records show that the children were charged with "criminal responsibility for conduct of another," after allegedly witnessing a fight and not intervening.

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