South Carolina Mom Arrested for Cheering at Daughter’s Graduation

[Google]

https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/s...d-cheering-too-loudly-daughter-172100466.html

A Myrtle Beach teen's high school graduation on Saturday was ruined when her excited mom, Shannon Cooper, was arrested for cheering.
Related: Florida Mom Arrested for Choking 14-Old Bully Offers Advice to Parents

Although parents were reportedly warned that they would be asked to leave the auditorium where the ceremony was held if they applauded for individual students receiving their diplomas, Cooper disagreed with the policy.

She told that she decided, "I'm going to cheer, because…I've gone through too much to get her to this point." She added incredulously, "I can't let her know 'I'm so proud of you?'"
Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Unite for Son's Graduation

When her daughter Iesha crossed the stage, Cooper claims that, "I got up and I said: 'Yay, my baby made it! Just a regular cheer.'" That's when police handcuffed her, escorted her to a van outside of the venue, and charged her with disorderly conduct. After the ceremony, her daughter broke down in tears when she spotted her mom being held in the van. "Are ya'll serious? Are ya'll for real? I mean, that's what I'm thinking in my mind," says Cooper.

"I didn't say anything. I was just like okay, I can't fight the law." She challenges the validity of the disorderly conduct charge since she says she fully cooperated with police. She and her daughter also assert that others were cheering and avoided arrest.
Related: 4th Teen Dies After Pre-Graduation Crash in Ohio

Cooper was moved to a detention center where she spent several hours. Ultimately, she was able to post a $225 bond and return home. Iesha says what should have been the best day of her life turned into the worst. "Yesterday [graduation day] can't be replaced," says the teen. "I'm going to remember…she's going to remember for the rest of her life. My mama went to jail on my graduation day."

Were the police too harsh? Please let us know what you think in the comments below.

 

[Guido]

That's ridiculous, I thought the good old USA was the land of the free. If I were her I would sue the school and the police force.

 

[Pullmyfinger]

I like this story.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-bl...ly-offers-135330347--abc-news-topstories.html

The Florida mom arrested for choking a boy who bullied her daughter on Facebook admits she "lost it" when she put her hands around the boy's neck in the middle of a mall while her daughter watched."I said, 'Stop saying things about my daughter on Facebook,' and I did use some expletives, and I was told that he wasn't going to stop and he didn't have to stop," Debbie Piscitella said today on " ." "So I lost it. I really, really did.

"I lost my temper," she said." "I wish it would have been another route I had taken. I don't go around doing that to children. I don't want to sound like I'm a huge monster."
Piscitella, 46, and daughter McKenna, 13, were shopping at a St. Petersburg mall last Monday when the pair spotted the girl's alleged online tormentor, a teenage classmate.

Piscitella confronted the boy and put her hands around his neck, according to police. The boy, whose name was not released, had, according to Piscitella, taunted her daughter online after the girl posted a picture of herself taken by her younger brother after a concert.

"It's the nasty things that he was saying about her," said Piscitella, who admitted her emotions got the best of her. "What really, really did it was when she [McKenna] was so upset about it. She wanted to hurt herself. That, to me, as a parent, seeing my daughter like that really angered me."

Piscitella was arrested on a child abuse charge a few hours later, after the boy's mother saw red marks on her son's neck and decided to press charges. Piscitella was released on bail.
While not commenting on the child abuse charge pending against her, Piscitella said she and McKenna's father, Jim, had tried to contact authorities to end the bullying against their daughter before it went too far.

"I went to the school. I went to the SRO, the School Resource Office," she said. "They [McKenna's father] contacted the police even that night and they were like, 'Oh, there's nothing we can do about it.'
"They have all these anti-bully laws but, when it comes down to it, it falls on deaf ears."

Piscitella said there are lessons that other parents can learn from her experience.

"I want people to, obviously, try to go through the proper channels," she said. "I want you to monitor your children and what your children are doing on Facebook because, obviously, if you look on the Facebook of the children in question, the things that are on there, as a parent, I would shut it down immediately."

 

[Guido]

I can't blame the mom for losing it, I probably would have done the same thing. Our laws protect the nasty kids way too much and they know it. I think some deserve to be introduced to a good back hander like I was in my youth.

 

[tboy]

the mom that was arrested for cheering her daughter, while a tasteful applause probably would have been acceptable i think the school and police went too far. Now, as always, we need to have some backstory....has their been previous problems at graduation? did the crowd get out of hand? I think telling her to shush would have suffice....but maybe not, considered they were warned before the ceremony...

As for the mom at the mall, I agree....if the kid wouldn't stop, and the powers that be wouldn't do anything, there comes a point where you have to protect your kids.....I've said in the past: if my kid was getting bullied at school or ? I'd do whatever it takes to protect them...but but but you'd get arrested....but but but my kid could live in peace.......

 

[Jesus Quintana]

The mom who cheered? Maybe her daughter was the first family member to finish high school without getting knocked up?

 

[Insertion]

I find it hard to believe the police would arrest someone for cheering and actually get away with it. There is something we are not being told.

 

[tboy]

that's what i was thinking there insert........