Video: Police Handcuffing 5 Year Old

[Mark]

Video: Police Handcuffing 5 Year Old

Full story:

St. Petersburg Times

Video shows police handcuffing 5-year-old
The girl's teacher videotaped her class that day as a self-improvement exercise. An attorney calls the arrest "absurd" and "excessive."

I'm surprised they didn't mace her ....

 

[dgridley]

In my estimation, people today are afraid of kids.. I'm an adherent to the "spare the rod and spoil the child" theory..

I'm tired of seeing parents "plead" with their kids to stop screaming or carrying on in a public place.. I'm not saying to beat kids, but every now and then a swat wouldn't hurt if used fairly and judiciously.

 

[Mark]

In my estimation, people today are afraid of kids.. I'm an adherent to the "spare the rod and spoil the child" theory..

I'm tired of seeing parents "plead" with their kids to stop screaming or carrying on in a public place.. I'm not saying to beat kids, but every now and then a swat wouldn't hurt if used fairly and judiciously.

I couldn't agree more - Time outs and Prescriptions don't do the job :td:

 

[.X.]

The assit principal should be fired,That child had full momentem over that lady,And it just esculated because of it.Handcuffs were'nt necc,It's a matter of taking back the momentem and adult role.I agree dgridley,A spat on the rear was in order here.That is totally ridulous that an assit prinipal cant handle an adult role model when needed.Perhaps she was scared of child protective services.But she should know her boundries as an adult.

 

[Rowan W]

She got what she deserved, give her a smack as well.

btw, is it agains the law to yell at a child as well?

 

[.X.]

She got what she deserved, give her a smack as well.

btw, is it agains the law to yell at a child as well?

Depends on what words your yelling.But yelling in this case would have only added fuel to fire IMO.They have whats called PMAB restraint,Atleast here in here in tx.I had to go through this training 20 years ago.It consists of restraints that are legal aswell as ethical to use use on a child that is in that behavioral manner.It does not hurt the child at all,But does restrain the child from doing danger to others aswell as themselves.

 

[spy69]

This happens so often its not even funny. Some person breaks the law than they cry and sue saying they got treated bad. Act normal and there will be no problem. The kid was obvisely acting up and even though shes only 5 thats no reason to act like that. Than her moms complaing it was rough. lol Some many laws in this country are too weird. But i always love watching cops when you need 20 of them to take dwon one guy .

 

[zaros64]

a swat wouldn't hurt if used fairly and judiciously.

Trust me the little swat does hurt..
anyways I saw that on the news .. Its pretty funny eh

 

[.X.]

A swat was in order in this case IMO

 

[slipondajimmy]

Im not sure where you are located but in Massachusetts as well as any other place I have lived you are very limited to what you can do/say as a School Teacher. If you have a kids you should know this.

Now as I recall this is not the first time the little girl has required attention of this nature. I believe the officer who put her in cuffs was the same who told her at another time they where called that he would do this to her. I think the cuffs were a little Extreme seeing she was only 5 but then again you dont see the whole video on the news.

Now for all of you that have kids or around them all day. At least for me I have a 3 year old neice around me most days and I can honestly say there are time that the handcuffs just would not be enough. ...lol

 

[vip-ip]

Smack em in public a couple of times, and say that's what I will do every time you start fooling around like that. That'll teach em.

 

[slipondajimmy]

yeah I think this litle girl has issues at home that caused her to be like this. And I think any court of law will find this. But it will all come back on the police. I wonder if the police would have not used cuffs but grabbed her to restrain her and she tried to kick and slap the officer would this still be a issue. Im sure the Mom would be saying it was still excessive.

And just a side not. I remember it like it was yesterday. Orlando Florida Public School. 4 grade I had a few not so nice words to say to a teacher....and what happened? Well Principal Mr. Prince found it in his heart to give me 3 swift slaps in the ass with a nice wooden paddle. Needless to say the rest of my time in that school went without a hitch

 

[Wesley]

A five year old in handcuffs? Thank GOD! The parents deserve to be in handcuffs too. The child needs a good beating - if the parents wont do it, the police should. The child was out of control and had no respect for authority. She needed to be put in a closet alone with limmited oxygen - teach her a lesson she wont forget =P

 

[octobus]

I do not think it's wise to handcuff a five year old. It was probably a very traumatic experience and it will affect her perception of law enforcement for years to come. How would would it affect you if a bunch of of police officers would have grabbed you in a similar situation?

As slipondajimmy already said, the girl has issues at home. But this is not the way to deal with a kid who behaves in an anti-social manner. She is a young child, not a 15 year old gang member. Alerting the social service would have been the appropriate action in this situation.

 

[Veolus]

yeah 5 year olds tend to get really annoying these days, serves them right :D

 

[slipondajimmy]

HHAHAHAHAHAH Im not sure I agree with the lack of oxygen for the child . But parents should be held accountable.

Now octobus. What do you think should have been done? I go back to my previous post saying that you are seeing only part of the video. like a minute of a 30 minute video. And for 25 minutes of the video she was out of control ..lol

This is a tough situation. The teacher cant restrain the child and if she did the Mother would slap a lawsuit on the teacher saying that she didnt need to do that. The mom is looking for a quick payday for her out of control child

 

[octobus]

What do I think should have been done? I already said in my previous post that the social service should have been alerted. In any case it was not necessary to handcuff her, because she had already calmed down when the police arrived at the scene.

Yes parents should be held accountable and the social serivce should conduct a review of the girl's situation. Who knows what they will find out, maybe girl has been subject to abuse by her family. Perhaps her insane 25 minutes outrage at school was a symptome of this.

 

[BuLLDoG]

I think for a 5 yr old (well most 5yr olds) just getting a telling off by a police officer would be scary but getting put in handcuffs I supose would be very scary for a 5 yr old, I think that handcuffs were not needed and if these are school teachers then they should know the correct approach to calm a situation down like this.

 

[slipondajimmy]

But Bulldog . It appeared to me the teacher did everything she could to calm the situation. So that being say what would be the next step? I dont agree that the handcuffs were the best option. But if you are in the classroom with that child what would you have done?

 

[BuLLDoG]

I see what you mean, but obviously the kid has some problems I dunno really what she should have done but it looked like she never had control of the situation at all, but if this was me I would of run as fast as hell out of the school and straight to a priest and ask him to get rid of the demon inside her haha