European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes sunday May 24, 1992 a amps Kevin Robinson do Anric Oliver Johnson sits with his sister Jasmine and brother Mario in Ascham Tinburg Germany. My s handcuffing of boy 13, prompts investigations training by Kevin Robinson staff write Aschaffenbur Germany a military police in a Schaffenburg will receive refresher training in the use of Handcuffs after separate investigations revealed that an my erred in handcuffing a 13-year-old family member the Community commander said Friday. A it was not appropriate for this particular person to be handcuffed a said it. Col. Richard Benjamin commander of the Aschaffenbur base support battalion. A no citizen is to be cuffed by an my without showing threatening gestures or  Benjamin spoke about the incident in an interview Friday after reviewing the results of two investigations one initiated by the Community commander and another by military police investigators. At 6 . On May 16, Deandre Oliver Johnson 13, was handcuffed and questioned by military policeman spec. Shane Waldrop after the my station in Aschaffenbur received a report that a Black male was hitting a Small child with a stick or Bat in Aschaffenbur go Sallen Park housing area. Jacqueline Eubanks a neighbor of the Johnsons who lives in the same building said her daughter told her that an my was taking Deandre away in Handcuffs. Deandre had been at Home alone while his Mother brother and sister were out. A when i came out Waldrop was taking Deandre upstairs to put on some shoes a Eubanks said. A i asked the my what were the charges. What had he done. If he had been resistant. I asked him Why Deandre was in Handcuffs and i told him he was Only 13. He told me a its my prerogative to do  a a Deandre was crying and he was upset but he did no to resist a Eubanks said. Waldrop escorted Deandre to an my Van parked around the Corner according to a statement from the Community commanders office. Later according to the statement Waldrop questioned Deandre and a determined that the boy posed no  then he removed the Handcuffs. Aschaffenbur officials said that during questioning Waldrop found out Deandre had not hit anyone with a Bat or a stick but in fact had broken up a fight Between his 10-year-old brother Mario and his 5-year-old sister Jasmine. The two had been fighting with a Broom and a mop. A my brother and sister were fighting with Sticks so i broke it up Quot said Deandre who attended Aschaffenbur Middle school As an eighth grader before his family flew to the United states on thursday. A fall the time i asked him what i had did. He  Tell me Quot Deandre said. A i was in Handcuffs for about five minutes before Waldrop decided to let me go. He told me not to run or try Ana hit him. He did say be was sorry if he put the cuffs on too  Waldrop has been suspended pending the results of the investigations Aschaffenbur officials said. He is assigned to the 127th my co in Hanau and attached for duty in Aschaffenbur. Deandre a father sgt. David Johnson of co a 9th engr in in Aschaffenbur said he did no to know Why his neighbors called the maps. A the kids were playing and there was no baseball Bat a Johnson said. Barbara Sarabia said the Call to the maps came from her quarters located on the third floor across the parking lot from the Johnsonsr building. She said she her husband and three other couples were having a Barbecue when they witnessed the incident. One of Sarabias guests who declined to give her name said she called the maps after she observed a a Black male grab a Small boy and shove him into a Wall. The Little boy was crying. The male hit the child with the Straw portion of a Broom and poked at him with a  she said she did no to see two children arguing. By the time Deandre a father arrived on the scene his son was sitting inside the my Van crying. He said he could still see the prints from the cuffs on his songs wrists. A i asked the my Why my son had been in Handcuffs a Johnson said. A the said it was Standard my procedure. But later capt. Terry Burks the Provost marshal told me my son should have never been in  Johnson said Waldrop is about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. He said he still can to understand How the my could View his son a who is about 5 feet 8 inches and 130 Benjamin pounds a As a threat. According to Ruth Hatcher the assistant principal at Aschaffenbur Middle school Deandre is a member of the National Junior Honor society a a neat kid and a Fine  a when Deandre talked to me about it he was crying because he was embarrassed that his friends and teachers would know about it a said Tina Johnson Deandre smother. A a in a sure if the situation had been reversed he Waldrop who is White  have put a White kid in  Michael Lamberg the president of the european chapter of the National association for the advancement of coloured people looked into the incident at the Johnsonsr request. He said based on the information he received that Waldrop overreacted in handcuffing Deandre. However he did no to feel the incident was done  Benjamin said the findings and recommendations of the two investigations will be sent to Waldrops unit in Hanau. The my commander there will conduct his own investigation based on the Aschaffenbur investigations to determine what actions if any should be taken against Waldrop. One immediate result of the investigations is a refresher course on the use of Handcuffs ordered by Benjamin for Aschaffenbur maps. A two hours after our investigations were Complete i had Waldrop and our Community command sergeant Maior James Lee apologize to Deandre and his family Benjamin said. World Cambodia running out of food official says from wire reports phenom penh Cambodia a More than 1 million cambodians face food shortages in the next few months the country a foreign minister said saturday. Floods last year caused serious food loss and Many provinces also suffered drought foreign minister Hor Nam Hong told a meeting of Aid agencies in phenom penh. Four provinces in the Center and South of the country have been severely affected by food shortages. Government storehouses Are empty and without help from International organizations Cambodia faces serious problems the foreign minister  collision kills 24 Nicosia Cyprus a cargo train collided saturday with a passenger train in Southern Iran killing 24 people and injuring 25, the official islamic Republic news Agency reported. The cause of the 2 . Accident was not immediately known. The Tehran Ahwaz railway service was suspended pending the outcome of investigation.4 held in heroin Case Beijing a police in South China a fijian province have arrested four taiwanese As part of a ring attempting to smuggle heroin from the Mainland to Taiwan a news report said saturday. The state run liberation daily based in Shanghai said the Case in the coastal City of Xiamen was the most serious on record in fijian province which lies across the Taiwan Strait from the nationalist chinese ruled , guerrillas fight Beirut Lebanon a artillery duels rocked South Lebanon on Friday while angry shiite Muslim mourners vowing Swift revenge buried victims of israelis Woodiest air raids against guerrilla targets this year. Police said israeli and Allied militia gunners shelled suspected military bases in the Southeastern villages of Mashihara and Ein Al Tineh with howitzer fire wounding three civilians. Guerrillas of the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god hit Back with mortars and rockets targeting Marj Ayoun the provincial capital of israelis self styled a Security zone in South  extradited Guatemala City a Victor Manuel Escobar became the second guatemalan to be extradited to the United states in less than a week Friday when he was flown to new York to face three Federal drug trafficking charges officials said. Authorities said Escobar who was unexpectedly flown North in a  Light plane is an alleged accomplice of Arnoldo Vargas the former mayor of Zacapa who was taken to the United states on tuesday to face drug trafficking charges. The two men along with Otto Evelio Quiroz were captured by guatemalan police and . Drug enforcement administration officials in december 1990. They had been held in custody while attorneys sought to avoid extradition  earnings seized Bhopal India a a court has ordered the seizure of $2.1 million in dividends on stocks owned by Union Carbide corp., which the Indian government is suing for the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster. On Friday the Bhopal chief judicial magistrate Gulab Sharma accepted a government plea to seize the dividends from 1984 to 1991 on the shares the Danbury  multinational company owns in its Indian subsidiary Union Carbide India Ltd. More than 4,000 people have died and about 20,000 were injured when they inhaled poisonous Gas from the pesticide Plant in Bhopal that was operated by Union carbides Indian subsidiary