A Mom Takes Action After Her 5-Year-Old Son Was Put In Chokehold By School Resource Officer

Pamela Ononiwu stated she was shocked when she arrived to her sons elementary school to pick him up for a doctors appointment. She said before she reached the principal’s office she could hear her son in distress.

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“To my shock and horror, I found my son being put in a chokehold,” Ononiwu, 37, shared. “This school resource officer was holding him at a 90 degree angle. My son kept trying to kick to get out of it, and the tighter the grip got.” 

“I repeatedly told him to let my son go. I was scared because I was like, ‘Will I also be shot dead trying to save my son?’ But I said it’s worth it because I’m not gonna be here and let my son die or pass out in front of me,” the mother of three stated. Ultimately, the school officer let go of the boy by pushing him away.

According to the school, the officer was called to the officer to deal with Pamela’s son, who has ADHD. It’s been reported that the boy was singing too loudly in Spanish Class and wouldn’t stop.

Pamela also confronted the principal and school district officials, but she is claiming no one would listen to anything she had to say.

“Nobody thought it was heinous that a child was in a chokehold. No one had any empathy,” Ononiwu shared.

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Ononiwu said the school district recently agreed to settle the suit, “There are alternatives. There are other ways to do this. If you are claiming a child has things to work on, the solution isn’t just to throw them in a room. If I did that at home, they’d call Child Protective Services, so I don’t understand why it would be allowed in schools,” she said.

“Both my son and my daughter have been subject to restraint and seclusion,” she said. “They dragged my daughter one day. My daughter told me they dragged her into a room; her shoes were in the hallway.”