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I don't know if anybody has mentioned this - couldn't find it in a search.
If you've had a chance to watch the very end of the video the cop says "Do you remember me? I'm the one who told your mum to put handcuffs on you."
Now that sounds like an adult trying to enforce the straight forward notion of action equals consequence. He has previously made a threat and he knows full well that if a threat is not followed through the action will reoccur time and time again.
The child was warned previously that if she acted a certain way the consequences would be bad for her. Now she has seen what can happen of you don't play by the rules.
Yes she is only 5, and the handcuffs seem excessive from the outside, but the only tools available to a teacher are exclusion of the child from classroom activity and the involvement of the parents. It would appear that neither of these methods had worked in the past, so the police had been involved before.
It is well known that more damage can be done to a child through a lack of discipline than by the use of scary tactics. The reasoning power of children is not developed at that age to allow them to see the subtleties of right and wrong so fear can be a useful tool.
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