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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If it wouldn't have occurred to you to call the police, what WOULD you have done?  The child is raging, is tearing things off the wall, throwing things, threw a shelf which hit the principal, jumped on a shredder and was trying to break a glass frame.  If I were doing all those things, I'd be worn out but she didn't slow down.  She was raging and showing no signs of calming.  Just what would you have done next?  Being handcufffed is better than being pepper sprayed or TASED

As a teacher of children who are emotionally disturbed, if there's a situation where a child is truly raging and can't come down, even with therapeutic restraint and other strategies, then you call for an ambulance, they have ways to safely restrain a child and take them to the hospital where they can receive the medical care they need.  An ambulance, which takes a child to medical care is entirely different from a police car taking a child to jail.

That isn't to say that there aren't a million things to try first, which I'm guessing they didn't, [b]but there's no excuse for putting a small child in a jail cell[/b].  [/quote]

The aunt claims the child was put in a holding cell but the police chief disputes that.  He says "[b]the girl was taken to the police department's squad room, not a holding cell[/b], and officers there tried to calm her and gave her a Coke "  http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/04/georgia_kindergartener_handcuf.html [/quote]

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