Here we go again. The bad apple syndrome. Police are often condemn as a group because of the stupid actions of one or two.Or even sometimes for being right.

Having been to a number of basketball games of many ages, it is a matter of common courtesy not to bounce the ball unless you are on the court participating in the game or practice. If you want to bounce a ball - go practice somewhere.

I don't know anything more than that in this case, but to me it is of minor importance. Public civility and respect has gone out the window. I'm not specifically condoning the officer in this case - there is far too little to go on either way - but I am specifically criticizing the parent who doesn't teach their child manners. Disrespect for law enforcement personnel comes after disrespect for everyone else around you. The entitlement attitude (which breeds petty theft and a gangster mentality) spawns from it as well.

While it would seem that to arrest someone for 'interrupting' you by continuing to dribble a ball is far out of reasonable means or requirements there often comes the information later that there was more to it than that. If that is all it is the individual arresting officer should be arrested. No coach would be allowed to rough up a student for continuing to dribble when asked to stop. Just because you are a uniformed officer doesn't mean you can start ordering people around to suit your needs. The incident however does not indicate that the rest of the police department needs to be abandoned or God forbid sentenced to sensitivity training for one lout's poor judgement.

From the article, he was dribbling the ball after a children's basketball game. Is there a law against dribbling a ball, or some other law the boy is alleged to have broken? Or does any civilian have to obey any order of a police officer, whether it's based on a law or not?

Good point. The Mother's statements, IF TRUE, of "these officers don't care about you life" is pretty abhorrent.

I was referring to the argument of overzealous policing.

I followed the link and all I see are 3 types of reactions. Each very indicative of the writers intelligence & sophistication in descending order. (note the huge decline in IQ between 2 & 3)

) "Florida Man ..." a sub-species of h. sapiens.
) "Where's the rest of...?" unbiased reporting pfft!
) "Kill the pigs!" nothing cops do is ever ... yup.

While I agree with you. They will argue that it was Racism.

Looks like a good LEARNING EXPERIENCE for both the Mother and the Son. Mother's lesson, Keep a closer eye on your kid. Son's lesson, Pay attention and follow instructions the First time you're told.

Big deal, I too was handcuffed once as a kid, mistaken identity, and I thought it was funny. The one that should be arrested is the one that said, "This is why you stick by my side — these officers don’t care about your life. Look at how quickly they wanted to take you away,'” Yah, take your honor student, fill his head with bullstuff, and impress that kind of nonsense on his immature brain, and he too can end up experiencing some real arrests. Teach him he's a victim while he's still impressionable.

How does this incident lead to the conclusion that the "left has some valid arguments"? I don't see any leftist arguments that are validated by the events in this story. Assuming that an injustice was committed, such an injustice would involve a violation of the child's individual rights. Since leftists generally argue in terms of "social justice" rather than invoking individual rights, incidents such as this one do not validate their arguments.

So when you go to a sporting event, you don't dribble a basketball. It's loud and obnoxious to everyone - not just the actual participants. I have zero sympathy for either the kid or for his mom who doesn't understand basic courtesy to others. I really don't care if he claims he didn't hear it - he shouldn't have been doing it in the first place.

It’s possible that it played out just as written. Also, it’s possible that the kid just “didn’t hear” the officer and kept on dribbling the ball after hearing the instruction to stop. I doubt the cop was whispering. I also suspect that a possible sneering attitude on the part of the kid would have changed to whimpering “gee I wasn’t doing anything WRONG” when the cuffs came out.

Overbearing fathead cop? Maybe. Disrespectful kid? Maybe. I don’t think we can tell from this one-sided account.

I just reread the story. It is probably likely that the police did give the kid a few verbal warnings like, "you can't be out on the court while other people are playing" or some such.
Then they tried to ask him, "where are your parents?" and the kid probably told them to "get lost" or some such.
Then the police went looking for the mother to come get your kid, we have him waiting for you.
The cuffs where probably overkill. Cops can't get a break however, so if they were physically holding on to him they would have been criticized for that.

Good call out by you and mshupe. This shows only one side of a story so should be read with a cautious eye. What is the real truth? Probably not exactly as stated.
Nonetheless, to the extent it is even partially true, it validly gives an example of how standards of policing have changed from "serve and protect" to "command and control".

What do you think is "valid" about the left's arguments?

This is not a very good case to provide your sympathy.

It was clearly a case of miscommunication, to say the least.

On the other hand, every time a black person is accosted by police, we hear two explanations: one by the black person and another by the officer.

Why are you taking it at face value what he or his mother said?

Some people get off on having power over others. It feeds a stupid form of vanity.

I think these are the same people who shut down Kids Lemonaide stands in the summer. In some cases it is the "Tyranny o the Law" that causes the stupidity. Others it is just the stupidity of the law enforces.

"There’s a sign here that says parents need to stay with their kids."
He was 11. In seven years he'll have all the rights of citizenship, including signing contracts, owning and using lethal weapons, and so on. If we say he can't be dribbling a ball on the opposite side of a playground from his mom, that she must be right next to him at all times, we have an even bigger problem.

Some full of themselves fatheads should not have a badge and a gun.
When me dino was a corrections officer, the closest I came to getting killed was trying to rescue such a fathead, who by his own bullying arrogance got himself into deep poo.