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Police put hancuffs on every violent suspect for their own safety. Sure the girl was young, but she was also violent.

Your right about her own safety, but I heardly think she was really posing a violent threat. Unless ur afraid of thrown papers and getting paper cuts. She could have been violent to the other children but they did a good job of seperating her.

I think her behavior is due to her mothers lack of proper disapline.

You don't see Japanese children acting like that because they act as they see their parents act.  (Sure they got there own casses where a boy cut off the head of another, but he was phychotic.)

iBubba wrote:

She needs her ass beat.

You should be a baby-sitter

Steyr AUG wrote:

Police put hancuffs on every violent suspect for their own safety. Sure the girl was young, but she was also violent.

I saw the video of this child=> she was standing on tables and threated to hit the teacher... handcuffs are a good idea.. non-violent punishment... the parent of this child should be investigated.

XYZ wrote:

It's ridiculous. 5 year old kids should not be handcuffed.

How many people have to get hurt by 5 year old kids before your opinion changes?

Steyr AUG wrote:

How many people have to get hurt by 5 year old kids before your opinion changes?

Yeah, because 5 year olds have such massive physical strength.

It's disturbing that the police were brought in. She wasn't a threat to her own or anyone else's safety. Apparently, she had already calmed down by the time the police arrived.

If I were the mother, I'd be seriously researching a lawsuit.

So, now even five-year-old black people are violent threats who need to be handcuffed?  Yes, that is what is being under the rug swept by the person who posted this entry and  some of the commenters so far.   They are basing their support of the officers' ineptitude on the race of the child.  If the child was white, their response would be quite different.  What's next?  A claim that African-American infants should be restrained at birth?  Not so incidentally, some of the same persons applauding abuse of this child have expressed bigotry on other threads.  That is where they are coming from.

The unreasonableness of the adults' behavior is what should be investigated.

The best way to treat tantrums is to stand back and let the child act out.   Eventually, he or she will calm down.   That is true of children of all colors, so Oz, Steyr, You Know Who, and the not yet arrived, but completely predictable BB1 through 3, should feel free to spare us the 'blacks are inherently violent,' attempt at justification. 

This situation is egregious.  I would represent the parents of the child pro bono.

after-life wrote:

Steyr AUG wrote:

How many people have to get hurt by 5 year old kids before your opinion changes?

Yeah, because 5 year olds have such massive physical strength.

It's disturbing that the police were brought in. She wasn't a threat to her own or anyone else's safety. Apparently, she had already calmed down by the time the police arrived.

If I were the mother, I'd be seriously researching a lawsuit.

A recent story here, 2nd grader punched a custodian in the groin, causing him to have an irregular  hearbeat and being taken to the emegency room. Now what were you saying?

Last edited by Steyr AUG (2005-04-24 5:17 pm)

Steyr AUG wrote:

after-life wrote:

Steyr AUG wrote:

How many people have to get hurt by 5 year old kids before your opinion changes?

Yeah, because 5 year olds have such massive physical strength.

It's disturbing that the police were brought in. She wasn't a threat to her own or anyone else's safety. Apparently, she had already calmed down by the time the police arrived.

If I were the mother, I'd be seriously researching a lawsuit.

A recent story here, 2nd grader punched a custodian in the groin, causing him to have an irregular  hearbeat and being taken to the emegency room. Now what were you saying?

:mini-iBubba runs up and chumps a good shot in Steyr's sack:

In all seriousness, the cuffs were over the top. What happened to calling the kid's parents?

THEN her folks could have whooped her little, bratty ass.

The school teachers and faculty are technically not even allowed to touch a child, or they can be sued. A child can punch hit, throw things at the teacher but the teacher can't do anything back except tell the student to calm down or to tell them to have a "time out". The schools now have to hire faculty which are allowed to handle the child if they get out of control.

The principle although in the right for what she did could be looking at a hearing for "handling the child"  in the first place...

And Podesta, grow up. This is not just a minority issue, this would of happened no matter what race the child was, or what age the child was.

Switcher wrote:

She was 5 you do not need to cuff a five year old kid that is one handed lift man. If I was in that situation I would just grab her what was she like 50 lb? Grab squeeze hand to the body and and handle her inn the car no need to restrain her like that.

You would of been charged by the parents for using excessive force. The school would put you on administrative leave with pay possibly and your career would be destroyed.  You aren't allowed to touch a child to restrain in any situation.

Last edited by Cyberpawz (2005-04-24 6:44 pm)

mo' ron wrote:

You aren't allowed to touch a child to restrain in any situation.

I don't think this is true... I KNOW it's not true for schools (at least where I live), and i'm fairly sure it's not true for day cares (which are private institutions).

Each school is different, many schools have a Corporal Punishment and Physical Restraint Policy. You are allowed to restrain the kid to keep harm from yourself, the kid, and any other type of damage. 

The problem though is that is a very, very questionable rule due to the fact that many people sort of like Podesta will call the race card into play, just because the child is black, and almost as a knee-jerk reaction call the NAACP up cause of "questionable physical restraint to a child of color". Many schools just blanket statement saying no touching the children period.

I've seen where I have worked a child throw a mouse and keyboard at the teacher, kick a computer (breaking the monitor) swing the chair around almost hitting other children. I grabbed the chair out of the kid's hand, and the teacher yelled at me saying to let the kid go.  She called the crew that was suppose to take care of it, and they did by baby-talking the kid down... and the kid was back in class in 20 minutes.

I asked the teacher why she stop me, she pretty much said that we aren't allowed to touch a child no matter the circumstances, and that the people she called were allowed to because they "were trained to deal with the situation".

Each school system is different, but in many cases handling the child is not allowed period unless you are certified to do so.

Last edited by Cyberpawz (2005-04-24 7:00 pm)

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