Hopewell, VA — In the land of the free, walking your child to a classroom is now grounds for police action. Fran Belisle, a mother of two, found this out the hard way at a school Arts Festival last week at which her daughter was performing in the school play, Annie.

"You can still see the bruises on my wrists," the Chesterfield mother said.

"The excessive force, the bruising on my wrists, the bruising on my arm, the fact there was not even a minute between the initial encounter with the Police Officer and cuffs going on," Belisle said.

The incident began when Belisle was attempting to escort her child to a classroom in which she would wait before the performance. However, police would not let her through — only her daughter.

"The police had set up a barricade in the hallway."

Belisle, 46, who is 4-feet 11 inches tall is not some criminal mastermind. In fact, she is an upstanding member of the community and comes from a family of law enforcement professionals. However, that is how this Air Force Officer of four years and United States Diplomat of six years was treated when she questioned the police 'roadblock' in the school hallway.