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Originally Posted by jwoody
I'm amazed that the police showed up at all.
They actually stopped whatever they were doing to travel to a school in order to arrest a five year old girl!
She's five.
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Did you even watch the video? The teacher involved had her hands tied. She did
everything in her power to stop the child, and it didn't stop. The only choices left were to a) wait for the mother (still an hour away, during which the child is allowed to roam free and break things in the school? good call there) or b) physically restrain her. The teacher cannot touch the child. The police, however, CAN.
That's what police are for. I cannot stress this enough. Police are
allowed to restrain someone who they feel is a threat to themselves or others, or if they feel that they will commit further crimes. The child was obviously a case of someone who would either hurt herself, or (obviously) keep up her tantrum and break things. The fact that she has bad parents or a learning disability, or that she's five, is irrelevant to the fact that bringing in the cops was the only thing the teachers could do.
What if she's five and a half? Or six? Or six and a half? Or seven? Or seven and a half? Or eight? Or eight and a half? Or nine? Or nine and a half? Or ten? Or ten and a half? Or eleven? Or eleven and a half? Or twelve? Or twelve and a half? Or thirteen? Or thirteen and a half? Or fourteen? Or fourteen and a half? Or fifteen? Or fifteen and a half? Or sixteen? Or sixteen and a half? Or seventeen? Or eighteen? Or nineteen? Or twenty? Do I need to continue?
Where do you draw the line? It's obviously not eighteen, because plenty of fifteen year old children kill each other. Would you say you shouldn't bring cops in to restrain a fifteen year old girl who was threatening to kill someone?
What if a five year old was doing the same thing? Is there still no reason ever to cuff a five year old?
The fact is, they were left with no option but physical force. Since the teachers can't do that, they called the people who
can. Just because the child cried about it doesn't mean it was unreasonable or excessive. The cops didn't hurt her, they just restrained her, and that's exactly what they should have done.
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Originally Posted by guthmund
and they were cops St. Petersburg police to be exact
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Sorry, when the teacher said they were calling the campus police, I assumed that's who'd shown up... my bad. My point stands, however. They didn't arrest the child and toss her in jail, they held her in custody until the mother could take her. That's all that happened.