Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum

Associated Press ^ | April 17, 2012 | JEFF MARTIN

[Free ThinkerNY]

ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) -- Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner with her arms behind her back after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action as a safety measure.

The girl's family demanded Tuesday that their central Georgia city change policy so that other children aren't treated the same way.

[midcop402]

I’m trying to figure out how they got the cuffs to stay on, unless this girl is on the larger size. I have had petite woman that I could not cuff because their wrists were too small.

[beaversmom]

This happened in Florida too to a 5 year old in 2005. Many discussions on FR at the time. This one was caught on video so you could actually see the girl going ape. Probably a video of it is still on You Tube somewhere. Here are a couple of links to that story below:

Video Captures Police Handcuffing 5-Year-Old Girl

Ire aimed at handcuffed girl's mother (2005)

Mom, 5-year-old girl in video fires lawyer, moving out of state

Here's video of the 2005 incident (link below). You can see the office where the girl has gone ape. She is fairly calm at the first of it and then starts going berserk again and hitting at the school official. At the end of the video, police put handcuffs on her. I don't think the mother won the public relations war in this one because there was video, but I'm not entirely sure how it turned out. It would be interesting to know how It would be nice in this latest case if there was video too. When incidents like this happen school officials should tape it if they can to protect themselves. Obviously, they had had run-ins with this little girl from 2005 before, so they were prepared.

Police Handcuffing 5-year-old black girl (2005)

Here's why the police are called and why adminstrators and teachers can't do anything to the little sweeties:

How I Joined Teach for America — and Got Sued for $20 Million

This guy that wrote the above is/was a liberal BTW.

And this:

Kill Your Teacher: Corruption And Racism in Los Angeles City Schools

Excerpt:

Shifren tells of his referral of one student to the principal's office for discipline for stabbing another student in class with a pencil. The student soon returned to class with a taxpayer-paid community activist, designated as a "parent rep," who screamed at him in front of the class. "I'm tired of you kicking Black kids out of your class," she yelled. But Shifren points out that every student in his class was Black.

Me speaking again:

So Al and Jesse will be called looking to capitalize on it for their own interests and the parents will be looking to capitalize on it for their own interests. Instead, the parents should be trying to figure out why their daughter is out of control. Meanwhile, the little girl will learn that no one can tell her what to do and she can act anyway she pleases. She will be out walking amongst us one day as an out of control adult. You can see the videos on You Tube of these older ferals on trains and in fast food restaurants acting like wild beasts. And we are all supposed to tolerate it and say, "Thank you, may I have another."