Parents complain about handcuffing of elementary students
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Angry parents are demanding action after they say at least five students were handcuffed at a Middle Tennessee elementary school for not stopping an off-campus fight.
The complaints were aired Sunday at First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, where The Daily News Journal (http://on.dnj.com/1SplyEc) reports more than 150 people gathered for a community meeting over Friday's incident at Hobgood Elementary School. The Rev. James McCarroll said the students were detained and later released from a juvenile center.
Zacchaeus Crawford, who said three of his children were handcuffed at the school, called the actions "nonsense in the fullest definition."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Murfreesboro Police Chief Karl Durr and City Manager Rob Lyons attended the meeting. Durr said he would begin reviewing the situation Monday. Lyons said: "If something needs to be corrected, it will be."