The daycare has denied the claim
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A Florida day care is under fire after a 2-year-old black girl was photographed being handcuffed and fingerprinted by a white child pretending to be a cop as part of a Rosa Parks reenactment.
The NAACP called for the state to investigate the Building Brains Academy in Saint Cloud, where the child was “subject to an alarming act of simulation, where she was handcuffed and fingerprinted by a white peer.”
The girl’s parents told Fox 35 they learned about the incident when images were sent to them in the school’s app.
“Her hands restrained behind her back as if she was being taken into custody,” the incensed couple told the outlet of their daughter, who they believe is the only black child at the day care.
“Then the next image was her hands being placed on a table as if she was being booked,” added the parents, who asked not to be identified.
Images of the girl appearing to be fingerprinted were obtained by WESH, which said it was declining to publish them.
“I was just like, ‘There’s no way they’re doing this in a 2-year-old classroom,'” the girl’s dad told the outlet. “It was our daughter who had her hands restrained behind her back by another child wearing a police vest,” he said.
“What I keep reliving in my mind is the look on our daughter’s face.”
Please continue reading at linkThe couple quickly pulled their daughter out of the center, where the mother said she spoke with the director.
The mom said the teacher is “a sweetheart,” instead blaming the facility for its curriculum.
“There are a million ways to teach about Rosa Parks that are age-appropriate and doesn’t come from a child’s expense,” the mom said of Parks, who is known as “the first lady of civil rights” after her arrest in Alabama in 1955 for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
2-year-old black girl cuffed by white child for Rosa Parks reenactment at Florida day care
“The look on her face alone, it was horrific,” said the parents of the toddler, who they believe is the only black child in her daycare.
