Police officer Scott Oglesby choked a 7 year old special needs child having a seizure and is now on the State Central Register of “indicated” child abusers.
According to the article
Allison said her son, who is a special needs student at Stevenson, suffers from seizures that cause him to scream and act much like a 2-year-old throwing a tantrum. He had such a seizure on Dec. 21 and was with the school psychologist waiting for his dad to pick him up and take him home.
According to the police report obtained by the Allisons, Oglesby “darted” into the room where the Allison’s son was, told the boy he was giving him a headache and then lifted the 65-pound boy by the throat. He “was lifted off the floor so his feet were dangling … his head was close to the ceiling … his face was turning quite red,” according to the psychologist’s statement to police
The psychologist left the room and told the school resource officer who then went into the room. Oglesby then grabbed the boy by the arm, lifted him over his shoulder and carried him to the principal’s office where, according to one witness, he “threw” the boy into a chair.
The report further states that Oglesby went back into the classroom and said to school staff, “You got any more?”
Amazingly even the seven year old child knew what the cop did was wrong.
“The first thing he asked me was, ‘Mommy, didn’t that police officer’s mommy say he shouldn’t do that to people?’ ” Allison said.
And as you probably already figured out, no charges were filed against the officer for his crime and he is back on the force. Although he is on rubber gun duty and is not allowed to interact with the public.
Wow. Strangling random people because they irritate him. Oglesby=Darth Vader.
This is part of the article is quite disturbing, “He said school officials followed district rules to yield to police,” So a grown man is abusing a young child and the school’s staff just stands their with their thumbs up their ass because the man committing the abuse has a shiny badge on his chest. Disgusting.
Stop sending your children to government schools!
Of course it’s shocking and wrong. Thank you for writing about it. I appreciate what you’re doing.
I do have to take issue with your headline, though: it’s more than a little misleading. “to strangle” generally means “to kill by suffocation” — http://www.answers.com/topic/strangle — and that’s what I thought you meant until I got toward the end of the story.
We have plenty of bad acts by law enforcement to write about and keep track of and raise awareness about without any need to resort to exaggeration or sloppy inference about them. The closer we adhere to the actual facts and actual inferences, the stronger our arguments become.
> Stop sending your children to government schools!
Are you an idiot, or do you honestly believe that those at a private school would stand up to a crazed pig who would likely pull his piece if they tried? Or if they did do anything they’d likely get fired over trumped up charges from this cop?
Fiat Justitia: thanks for the feedback, I chose to use “strangled” in the headline with this definition in mind “Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain” so I don’t believe there is any exaggeration. I couldn’t have used “choked” because the article only said that the officer was holding him by the neck and his face was turning red not coughing or gasping for air.
I am open to suggestions as to what you think would have been a more appropriate headline.
Its very expensive for me to keep calling the alderman the mayor and the police chief in this situation.
I have sent this email to every aldermen in the city the mayor and the Police department
If these allegation are true, IN America everyone is innocent until proven guilty, However all of the people of the town of Bloomington should hold, all those responsible for the alleged abuse of a disabled child accountable. The people of Bloomington should especially be looking into how exactly the internal affairs department of the police department handle this situation. What Police Chief Randy McKinley does in
response. The people should be asking questions and should be aware of these very serious allegations, Please call the mayor and the police chief, and ask, and leave a message, ask them to explain where in the investigation they are currently at, of course they are allegations but a disabled child is involved. If the officer involved is innocent every detail should be made available.He of course should be exonerated.
I called the police Chief myself and was told that as stranger I had no right to be asking him questions. IN America the American people have a right to petition their government and ask for answers. Please tell the Chief of Police to read the first amendment to the constitution.
[email protected]. The Public Affairs Unit can also be reached at these phone numbers: (309) 434-2355 or (309) 434-2534. Our mailing address is 305 S. East Street, Bloomington, IL 61701.
The Following is the article describing the allegations and the incident.
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_59791d96-51eb-11e0-9376-001cc4c03286.html
I have also emailed the Prosecutor Yoder in this case .
Dear Mr. Yoder,
You recently made a statement to a news source and I quote
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In a letter to Bloomington Police Chief Randall McKinley on Thursday, State’s Attorney Bill Yoder said “an argument could be made” that officer Scott Oglesby’s contact with the student “constituted a battery.”
But, Yoder said “it was clear” after reviewing witness statements that Oglesby “had no intention of harming the student, but was attempting to gain compliance, albeit in an inappropriate fashion.”
Mr. Yoder, what crime did this disabled child who was in the care of a medical professional commit? The constitution requires that a officer have probable cause to make an arrest. The police report states the child was lifted by the neck. When he was moved to another location was he placed under arrest? when NO crime had been committed in the first place.He did not have reasonable suspicion to even detain the child, he was not called to deal with that child. THE child was in the process of being treated by a medical professional. Is it not a federal crime to Using the color of authority to deny someone their civil rights. Since this child had not committed a crime to begin with, there was absolutely no reason for this officer to place his hands on this child. YOUR excuse that the officer was attempting to make the child comply is absolutely outrageous. Comply to what! he was not breaking any law. The officer had NO authority to make a law abiding citizen comply to anything when it is not illegal, Have you read the constitution?
Is using the color of authority to deny someone their civil rights also a state crime in Illinois? If it is and you chose not to prosecute him are You guilty of conspiracy at a federal level? Are you immune from federal charges MR. Yoder?
BATTERY! Did he use the color of authority to falsely arrest a child who had not committed any crime? IS conspiring to protect a child abuser and kidnapper a crime? IS interfering with a medical professional performing his duties a crime?
IF it had been anyone else would you have thrown the book at him with MULTIPLE CHARGES not just battery?
Attempting to gain COMPLIANCE to WHAT LAW? Mr. Yoder what law is having a seizure breaking MR. Yoder? What statute what crime did he commit, was he committing ,or was he about to commit?
I hope this family takes federal actions and I hope you will be included in the lawsuit for conspiracy to deny this child his civil rights.
YOU are supposed to represent the people, not be a lackey for the ever increasing police state, if a 7 year old child having a seizer is not safe from our own police then the fault is completely YOURS MR. YODER.
Please anyone who can please call the number and ask how and what happened what is being done to stop the abuse of children. Americans have a right to petition there government please do so,
THIS is a 7 year old disabled child. If their is any cause worth fighting for then this is it.
Thanks for the response, Rob. The first American Heritage Dictionary definition of “choke” fits: “To interfere with the respiration of by compression or obstruction of the larynx or trachea.” (If he turned red, it’s probably fair to presume his respiration was at least somewhat affected.) That is contrasted to the first definition for “strangle”: “To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.” “Stroke” is (far) better than “strangle.”
For the record, I tweeted the story thus:
Bloomington, IL. DCFS officer lifts unruly boy, 7, by throat, hauls him to office; now on state abuser list http://t.co/YphW0yu HT @CopBlock
http://twitter.com/creepcops/statuses/51255368256466944
I find it an artistic challenge to fit the truth with the right cast into 140 characters, but I enjoy trying.
@Anonymous
Every story I read that involves the police abusing a child at school takes place in a government school. So apparently, government schools have a tendency to call an armed agent of the government to handle unruly children and private schools do not. So I stand by my statement.