In late November or early December 2016 a SWAT team, State Police et al. descended on Connecticut Juvenile Training School after a false 911 call about a gun in building # 5 and a shooting due to occur. This blog published a story about the incident on December 3, 2016 and wondered if counseling was provided to the youth on the Unit that police entered. Now an eye witness reports that no such counseling to traumatized youth materialized. Why ? This reporter talked face to face with a youth who was actually on the Unit when police came in with M-16 rifles and made residents enter their rooms. According to the eye witness "no counseling was provided that day or days later. We were all shook up by seeing these men surround the building and come on our Unit with M16s."
Reliable sources indicate that the majority of residents of the Unit in building # 5 are of color. Indeed CJTS residents are predominately made up of males of color. Many of these youth are from urban environments where violence occurs frequently. It stands to reason that seeing police with all those guns triggered trauma in these residents. However CJTS nor the Department of Children and Families deemed it necessary to provide counseling after the police departed. Please note that CJTS / DCF proclaim to have the best interest of youth as their primary goal. However it did not appear necessary to have clinicians come in to unpack possible trauma to youth
Well it should come as no surprise that both agencies use males of color as commodities in securing federal, state, and other funding to promote supposed safe guarding of youth. Yet when police bum rushed building # 5 and entered a Unit, white management did not give a flying f... about the residents.
White supremacy in action.
