Okay may you please look at this clip (33secs) and try to justify the action of the police? Were they right?

Question

or were they wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_z7EL2R_1I&NR=1

Answer 1

The little girls behavior was wrong, but she shouldn’t be treated like a criminal. She’s a kid that had a temper tantrum and unfortunately she had to learn it from somewhere. Most kids that react that way are abused or have seen abuse in there life & have a lot of anger built up with no idea as to HOW they should release it. Our kids deal with a lot and we don’t know what ALL happened between the teacher & the child to cause that explosive response. But it is very apparent that the little girl needs help emotional help. Kids don’t know how to release their anger & frustrations so most of the time it comes out through their behavior. I do believe the teacher was trying to calm her down, but could have held her a little tighter while trying to hug her, let her kick & swing – eventually she would’ve calmed down.

The cuffs were a bit much, now on top of what she was already dealing with emotionally, she’s going to feel like a criminal and that could make her behavior even worse. If she watch tv I’m sure she’s seen cops or previews of it p or just the news – now she’s going to relate them to her & that is sad. She’s needs counseling not cuffs

AND TO Problem Child : THIS CHILD DIDN'T HAVE A WEAPON AND WASN'T THAT OUT OF CONTROL!!!! PEOPLE TREAT OUT OF CONTROL ANIMALS BETTER THAN THAT!

HER BEHAVIOR WASN'T GRADE A, BUT PLEASE, SHE DIDN'T NEED CUFFS U COUCH POTATOE

Answer 2

I hate answering a question with a question...but what would you have done? Hit the Kid? have a grown man/woman stand there and wrestle with the child? Have 5 cops run around in circles chasing him? Sorry, past that.

This child was out of control. The school could not control her and saw fit to call the police. The police are not therapists, social workers etc. Their job is to end the reason for the call. In this case, a young child nobody could control. They ended it by restraining the child so that the child could not hurt herself or others and could be safely transported to the hospital (which for all you experts, is where they where going) . The handcuffs cause no lasting injury damage etc.

To an uneducated, untrained second guesser, handcuffing a child may seem extreme. I can tell you it is not. I have seen little children do some very violaent things. Once had a cop I know get stabbed in the leg by a pair of scissors wielded by a 6 year old, all while he tried to 'talk" to him. The scisorrs missed his femoral artery by inches. So, do you think the officer should have restrained that child prior to being stabbed? If not, should he have grabbed an arm? Maybe dislocated it in the process? Should they have sat on the kid? Maced her? Taser?

To anyone who thinks the cops where wrong...please, do tell, with all of your LE experience, how would you have handled the situation? Talking is not an acceptable answer, as that was done prior to the cops being called.

Instead of looking at the big puicture, that this child is obviously a victim of parents who have not raised her properly and a school system ill equiped to deal with her...it falls to the police, once again, to solve everyones problems, perfectly, so monday morning know nothings, like mist people on here...can second guesse every actuion they took...days and weeks later.

Until you take the job and put yourself in their shoes, nobody who was not there or has not experienced what when on with that child, has any right to comment.

FYI...For all the "experts"...ANYONE can be handcuffed. Their is no law, rule etc that says only "criminals" can be cuffed. I cuff people all the time, many of whom are not charged or are not criminals. Psych patients are routinely handcuffed for transport to the ER and they face no criminal charges

Check NY news...a 5 year old recently got "upset" ( he must have had a rough day at the office)...and told his friend he was going to kill his grandmother for not letting him out of the apt...he then burned the entire apt building down. Nice, huh? Thats the kids cops have to deal with these days. I will and have cuffed a 5 year old in a heartbeat. You can't raise your kid correct, I'll be dammed if I am going to chase them around like a buffon...then to have you sue me because your little animal got "injured" while I was playing keystone cops.

Years ago, kids had respect for cops. Now parent through their actions and words, tell their kids to respect nobody in authority. This is what you get.

Answer 3

Absolutly wrong.

Answer 4

in the US no, they cant do that... and technically it wasnt right anyway, but that wasnt America and other countries have different laws.

Answer 5

The kid was uncontrollable. Sorry, I'm not going to stand their all day and try to talk to a kid that is being a little brat. The police were called, she was put into cuffs. As an officer, I'm not going to stand around and watch a little girl tear up an office because she is upset.

Instead of worrying about police putting the cuffs on a 10 year old. How about your worry about the horrible parenting that got the kid to that point.

40 years ago, the kid would have been beaten with a yard stick for acting like that in class and when she got home, the parents would have whacked her again.

Answer 6

If the kid's actions were bad enough that the school had to call the police, then by all means the girl deserved to get cuffed.  Clearly, this girl had enough of a behavior problem that she had disrupted the educational environment for all present.  I don't know if she had disrupted an entire classroom full of students or only the office of an individual teacher, but if she had been in a classroom, none of the other kids would have been learning anything with this outburst.

The girl's feelings don't matter, either.  If she was traumatized by being cuffed, then maybe she should have calmed down before it had gotten to that point.  Apparently, nobody -- not her parents, daycare providers, other relatives, or teachers -- had ever taught her to stop lashing out and destroying property with temper tantrums.  If it's going to fall to the police to teach her how to behave in public, then of course she's going to get a harsh lesson and harsh consequences.

Answer 7

I know many people who have done much worse than that to teachers, when I was in Year 7 (6th Grade). A kid I know beat up a teacher and threw her over a table... nothing happened. Eventually, he transferred schools but nothing as serious as the police getting involved.