Hmmm. In watching the video, it seems that she settled down and was sitting in the chair the minute she saw the police. I did not see any reason at that point for her to be handcuffed. They needed to wait for the mother, expell the child from the public school system, make a referral to children's services and recommend counseling. What is with all the video cameras in the school?
Little kids aren't necessarily stupid. The fact that she calmed down in the face of overwhelming force tells you nothing about what she would do the minute the cops left or the next day.
I'd bet that had she NOT been cuffed, the next day she would have tried to see if she could make them call the cops again.
The kid and, especially, the kids parent(s) took advantage of the current perverse system to limit less dramatic options. In essence, they demanding overwhleming force, and they got what they demanded. Next they tried to respond with the overwhelming force of public opinion and a perverted judiciary.
This is war -- war on YOUR children.
Good morning.
"What is with all the video cameras in the school?"
See the last line in post #74.
Michael
Seems to me the reason she was cuffed was because the police had told her during a previous incident that they would do just that if called again. To not follow through would have been a mistake, imo.
If I tell my 4 year old son, who can assert himself like the best of them, that I'll do something if...and then I don't, I imagine his respect for my authority would suffer a bit.