10-Year-Old Black Girl At Hawaii Elementary School Arrested For Allegedly “Drawing A Picture That Upset A Parent”

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid ·Updated October 21, 2021

On Monday, the ACLU called for the Honolulu Police Department (HPD), the state Department of Education (DOE), and other officials to take action after a 10-year-old Black girl at Honowai Elementary School in Waipahu, HI was arrested last year “for drawing a picture that upset a parent.”

Tamara Taylor, the student’s mother, says “her daughter’s constitutional rights– as well as her own– were violated,” according to the ACLU. They

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