Dad arrested over daughter's gun drawing

[MikeNB]

Yes, the kid told the teacher their father had a firearm.

Nope. She explained to the teacher that her drawing showed his dad shooting monsters with a gun. I didn't see anywhere there was mentioning of firearm ownership in real life. As far as I know there is no law against holding guns in cartoon drawings.

In Canada, firearms must be locked up and separate from the ammo. Also, in Canada you are not allowed to shoot people .. monsters or otherwise. The kid said specifically that the father has the gun to shoot people.

Show me where in the law says you are not allowed to shoot monsters. Again, the kid was talking about a drawing. show me where the law says I am not allowed to kill people in a drawing.

I suspect the school knew all about the history of the father .. and took no chances.

Then they will be held liable for allowing a violent criminal volunteering at a school - against the law (you must pass police background check to volunteer at schools). They will lose either way.

Actually under the BNA Act you are explicitly permitted to shoot monsters so long as you are doing so to protect your safety or your property. Also, you do not have to lock up all guns, you don't have to keep ammo locked up, and if locked up you don't have to keep guns separate from ammo.

[homeandnativeland]

If you dont like the way we handle these things in Ontario, stay in Texas.

WE??? I'm in Ontario. I have guns, I hunt, my friends have families and guns. Some kids take opening day of deer season off to go with their family hunting.

That's how we handle things in Ontario. That's the REAL Canada, not your leftist Utopian dreamworld.

It's called tolerance. Ever heard of it?

[styky]

Cops expected to say 'sorry' to crayon drawing dad

By Kris Sims, Parliamentary Bureau

Sunday, June 3, 2012 7:08:14 EDT PM
The Kitchener dad who was arrested and strip-searched because his daughter drew a picture in kindergarten of him holding what turned out to be a toy gun is expecting an apology Monday from the cops.

"They were doing this review of what happened, what my family was put through and they asked me to come down to the police station to look at it - they said that they messed up and they were sorry," Jessie Sansone told QMI Agency on the weekend.

The internal review is due out Monday.

"They did say though that they were acting on information from the family services people, procedure and all that."

Sansone brought one of church mentors along with him to the meeting with police.

"I am personally a forgiving person, but this is more than just me; this was a system that fell down on us all of a sudden and it could happen to anyone," Sansone said from his home, where he lives with his wife Stephanie, who is nine months pregnant, and their four children.

"That's not right, so we are still going to take legal action. This happened from a four-year-old girl's drawing that nobody's seen and that's not OK."

In February, his daughter Nevaeh drew a picture on a white board in her junior kindergarten class.

She told the teacher that it was her "daddy getting the monsters and bad guys."

The teacher thought she saw a gun in the drawing, questioned the child and called the principal who called family services, which then called in the Kitchener-Waterloo Police.

The police met the 26-year-old father at the school and told him he was being arrested for possession of a firearm and took him to the station. Social workers took his kids from the school and drove them across town to their offices for questioning.

At the police station, cops ordered a strip-search of Sansone, lifted his testicles and had him bend over.

Police went to the Sansone home and told Stephanie she needed to come to the station for questioning. Neighbours said the police were in the residence for hours.

Eventually, police let everyone go home, saying there would be no charges. During their search, police had found a see-through plastic, spring-loaded toy gun in the house and said it was probably what the child had drawn.

The item sells at Canadian Tire for about $16 and shoot tiny plastic beads. The Sansones never had the peppercorn-sized beads in the home, as the toy was left by a relative.

"My family was shaken up for months, we just couldn't believe this happened to us over a drawing," Sansone told QMI Agency. "Whenever we saw police cars, we wondered if something was happening again."

While the police are expected to apologize Monday, family services maintained they would react the same way and the school board said while they were sad the Sansones were upset, they were acting in the best interests of the children because teachers and the school board "co-parent" their students.

The family is still trying to secure a lawyer to take their case.

http://www.thewhig.com/2012/06/03/cops- ... rawing-dad

[Edward Kennedy]

There are police who lie, and the family services crud are lieberals in their own right as well.

[styky]

Police apologize to crayon gun dad

By Kris Sims, Parliamentary Bureau

Last Updated: June 5, 2012 8:46pm
OTTAWA - Four months after arresting and strip-searching a man because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of him shooting monsters and bad guys, police in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., have apologized to the young family.

In their internal review of 26-year-old Jessie Sansone's arrest, Waterloo Regional Police said they did everything right — except their method of search.

“The results of this review have determined that Waterloo Regional Police officers acted in accordance with the law by arresting Mr. Sansone and made every effort to preserve his dignity and the safety of this community,” said Chief Matt Torigian.

“However, the review also found that due to a miscommunication in the processing of Mr. Sansone, he was subjected to a Thorough Search instead of a less intrusive Frisk Search— an oversight which we regret.”

Torigan said he and Deputy Chief Thomlison met with, and personally apologized to, Sansone for the impact his arrest had on his family.

Sansone, however, said sorry's not enough.

“I am a forgiving person, but this isn't just about me. It's not just my own family. This was a whole system that crashed down on us, and it was all because of a four-year-old's drawing,” he said. “They could have just talked with me instead. This can't be allowed to happen to my neighbour, to another family.”

In February, the father of four was met at his children's school by police officers, who arrested him for possession of a firearm.

He was taken to the station in handcuffs and strip-searched while his home was searched and his pregnant wife was questioned. His children were picked up at the school by social workers and taken across town for questioning.

Cops stripped Sansone naked and had him lift his testicles so officers could see under them, turn around, and bend over.

All of this started when his daughter Nevaeh, in junior kindergarten, drew a picture of her dad shooting bad guys on a classroom white board.

The ensuing conversation between the teacher and the tot lead the teacher to believe there was a handgun within reach of the children at home.

The school called family services who, in turn, called police.

Police found nothing in the home other than an empty plastic gun sold at Canadian Tire for $16. The toy was meant to propel peppercorn-sized plastic beads — something the family never had in the house.

“Although not crucial at the time of the arrest, the Air Soft Pistol that was located has the capability to fire a projectile at approximately 180 feet per second and if pointed at someone may constitute a criminal offence and could most certainly cause injury if used carelessly,” reads the police report.

Neither the school nor family services have apologized. The school board maintained it had the children's welfare in mind because school officials “co-parent” students.

The family is trying to retain a lawyer.

Sansone will speak with Michael Coren on Sun News Network on Thursday in his first TV interview since his arrest.

http://www.lfpress.com/news/canada/2012 ... 1-qmi.html

[Edward Kennedy]

An apology is not good enough..if a terrorist who has murdered gets millions, this family whose rights and security of the person have been violated deserves a few as well for being innocent yet attacked by the lefturd system.