Poor Mojo's Newswire

Gray calls Michael a comedian. She says his biggest problem is his ADHD stops him from thinking before he acts or speaks. . . . Gray says the school, Rio Calaveras Elementary of Stockton, wanted to change that behavior by having Michael meet with a school police officer. "He could come out and talk to Michael and the kids are normally scared straight," said Gray, describing how she says the school district proposed the meeting. But the meeting didn't go as planned. Gray says Michael was agitated when the officer entered the room, and the whole meeting ended with Michael arrested and cuffed, with zip ties on his hands and his feet. "I was led to believe that Michael saw a police officer and attacked a police officer on sight," said Gray, adding that that's not what happened. She knows because she ultimately obtained a copy of the police report. In it, the officer, Lt. Frank Gordo, says he placed his hand on Michael's and, "the boy pushed my hand away in a batting motion, pushed papers off the table, and kicked me in the right knee." When Michael wouldn't calm down, Gordo cuffed Michael's hands and feet with zip ties and took the boy to the Stockton Kaiser Psychiatric Hospital in the back of a squad car. He had not called Michael's mother or father at that point. Michael was cited for battery on a police officer. . . .

Jennifer Fox, the pregnant protester who was pepper-sprayed along with 84-year-old Dorli Rainey during last week’s Occupy Seattle march, has reportedly miscarried. The 19-year-old homeless woman, who says she was three months pregnant, penned an email to local blogger Ian Awesome with the terrible news. “It hurts,” she writes. ”It’s upsetting. I was ready to have a kid, because my family was going to support me in taking care of the child. Her name was going to be Miracle.” She later spoke with Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger to provide additional context. “I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” Fox is quoted as saying. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’” She says a police officer then “lifted his foot and it hit her in the stomach” just before a second officer struck her again with his bicycle. “Right before I turned, both cops lifted their pepper spray and sprayed me. My eyes puffed up and my eyes swelled shut.” An initial ultrasound at Harborview Medical Center following the incident did not reveal any complications. It wasn’t until yesterday that Fox says she “started getting sick, cramps started, and I felt like I was going to pass out.” . . .

Over several days, New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers. Reporters with The Associated Press and The Daily News were arrested while taking notes. A radio reporter was arrested as she recorded several blocks from the park. . . . At least since the Republican National Convention of 2004, our police have grown accustomed to forcibly penning, arresting, and sometimes spraying and whacking protesters and reporters. On Monday, The New York Times and 12 other organizations sent a letter of protest to the Police Department. “The police actions of last week,” the authors said, “have been more hostile to the press than any other event in recent memory.” Their letter offered five examples. I’ll mention one: As the police carried off a young protester whose head was covered in a crown of blood, a photographer stood behind a metal barricade and raised his camera. Two officers ran at him, grabbed the barrier and struck him in the chest, knees and shins. You are not permitted, the police yelled, to photograph on the sidewalk. . . .