Democracy: Police beat, handcuffed and arrested a 9 year old autistic boy

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QUINCY, ILL. -- A Quincy mother is upset over the way she said school officials treated her son who has autism during an incident Friday at Baldwin South Intermediate School.
Brandi Kirchner said that her 9-year-old son Roger Parker, Jr. had "a meltdown" during class. School officials sent him to a special area to calm down.
The boy climbed a dividing wall and the school called in a police officer to deal with him, the mother said. In the attempt to pull Roger off the wall, the officer pulled the boy by his arms and legs, causing him to hit his eye on the divider, Kirchner said. Copley says it took several attempts before Officer Bill Calkins restrained Parker and handcuffed him. He was then fingerprinted, photographed and put under arrest but not being interrogated.

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Injury to Roger Parker, Jr.'s eye after alleged police assault at school.  / Photo courtesy of Brandi Kirchner