Crime

Police Handcuff 6-Year Old Girl After She Throws ‘Temper Tantrum’ at School

(The Blaze/AP) — Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner with her arms behind her back after she threw a tantrum at school, and the police chief defended the action as a safety measure.

“She might have misbehaved, but I don’t think she misbehaved to the point where she should have been handcuffed and taken downtown to the police department,” the girl’s aunt said. 

Her father remarked: “A six-year-old in kindergarten. They don’t have no business calling the police and handcuffing my child.”

Police Handcuff 6 Year Old Salecia Johnson After Temper Tantrum in Georgia School

While it’s unusual to see a young child handcuffed in school, it’s not unheard of. School officials around the nation have wrestled with the issue of when it’s appropriate to call police on a student.

“Our policy is that any detainee unreported to our station in a patrol vehicle is to be handcuffed in the back…There is no age discrimination on that rule,” the city’s Chief of Police explained.

Salecia Johnson, 6, was accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing books and toys in an outburst Friday at Creekside Elementary School in Milledgeville, according to a police report.

Specifically, they say the child threw a small shelf which struck the principal on the leg, and also jumped on a paper shredder and tried to break a glass frame.

So, the school called the police. When an officer tried to calm the child in the principal’s office, she allegedly resisted.  The police report says she was then “restrained by placing her hands behind her back and handcuffed.”

A juvenile complaint was filed, accusing the girl of simple battery and damage to property.

The girl’s aunt and mother say the 6-year old waited in a holding cell until they picked her up, and was “so shaken up.”

However,  police chief says the girl was taken to the police department’s squad room, not a holding cell, and officers there tried to calm her and gave her a Coke.

Officials at Creekside Elementary did not immediately return calls Tuesday.

Salecia Johnson has been suspended and can’t return to school until August, according to her mother.

Police Handcuff 6 Year Old Salecia Johnson After Temper Tantrum in Georgia School

Salecia Johnson's parents

“We would not like to see this happen to another child, because it’s horrifying. It’s devastating,” her aunt told The Associated Press.

Elsewhere in the U.S., incidents involving students, police and handcuffs have raised difficult questions for educators, parents and policymakers.

In Florida, the use of police in schools came up several years ago when officers arrested a kindergartner who threw a tantrum during a jelly bean-counting contest. Since then, the overall number of student arrests in Florida has declined, but those for minor offenses have increased on a percentage basis. A bill was proposed this year to restrict police from arresting kids for misdemeanors or other acts that do not pose serious safety threats.

Annette Montano, a mother in Albuquerque, N.M., said her 13-year-old son was arrested last year after burping in gym class. The tension between him and school officials led to several more run-ins, including a strip search after he was accused of selling drugs, she said.

Finally, she said, she pulled him from the school in November. It took her three months to get him placed elsewhere.

Comments (144)

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  • quiltgal
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:53pm

    Since teachers’ hands are tied for fear of lawsuits, the logical alternative is to call the police and let them restrain out-of-control children. If the hands of the police become tied as well, then what? Nanny 911? These parents should be grateful the police were allowed to intervene. The child probably acts out at home too. Maybe this was a step towards discipline–some peace for the parents and some fairness for the other children in the class!

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:16pm

      Are you kidding me?? A six year old, in handcuffs?? There are other ways to control a child who is having a temper tantrum! You don’t treat them like a criminal! This child has been mentally harmed by placing handcuffs on her, taking her from school and put in a room! I hope her parents sue the police department big time! This is wrong.. and heres who failed.. the mamby pamby school system! I can gaurantee you that many a teacher has calmed down children who have a tantrum… but we all know that most teachers today are the worst ever put into our school system.. if they aren’t brainwashing them, they are sexually molesting them or mentally abusing them. Lord help us!

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    • Liberal_Teacher
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:20pm

      No, that is not the “logical solution.” It‘s mindblowing how many adults here can’t think of any other strategies for dealing with a situation like this other than “do nothing” or “call the cops.”

      I think it is a sad commentary on our schools and our law enforcement that they are unable to de-escalate an altercation with a six year old. Teachers and administrative staff are supposed to be trained to deal with unruly children. Here’s a simple strategy that almost always works: clear the room, stand back, watch carefully, and let the tantrum burn itself out. A six year old isn‘t going to be on a rampage for more than a few minutes if you don’t stoke the flames by giving her attention.

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    • Liberal_Teacher
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:22pm

      @AbbyGirl1994 We disagree about almost everything, but I’m glad we agree about this one. It was the school system that failed in this case, no question about it.

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    • Misha
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:27pm

      Abby and Lib Teacher – beg to differ w/you, but this is a parenting failure, not the school’s failure. Based on the parents’ reaction to what was done, how do you think they’d have responded to the teacher or other school authority restraining this kid? Lawsuit.

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    • Twisted Mind
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:43pm

      Handcuff her heck !! They should have taught her a real lesson and just shot her.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:55pm

      @ABBYGIRL1994
      “There are other ways to control a child who is having a temper tantrum!”
      Not to be argumentative, but . . . can you name a few that actually work? You could be a rich woman. I doubt she was “mentally harmed” by the experience.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:10pm

      Spare the rod and spoil the child. We didnt have this problem when we could bust the little angels a@@es…

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    • BarackStalin
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Just keep building more and bigger cages and filling them with ever younger people for increasingly petty offenses…

      But don’t wonder why no one trusts or respects the police anymore…

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    • Marci
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:42pm

      Can’t disagree with you there Quilt. If she was going on a rampage, what else are their choices? They touch the child and next thing you know there is a big lawsuit. Notice how the parents do not address her behavior at all.

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    • Nasado
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:04pm

      I can see both sides of this argument and yet part of me agrees thtat this could be good for the girl. When I was younger, maybe 2 years older than the girl, I got into the habit of stealing candy from the store. When I was caught, my mom took me to the county jail and had one of the police officers take me into the back and put me in one of the jail cells for a few minutes. I thought that she was going to leave me there. Yet she got me, we went home, and I have never stolen anything else in the past 20 years. I was terrified at the time but I am so grateful that she loved me enough to teach me that lesson. Maybe what happened to the girl will be the best thing for her. Time will tell.

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    • jokar
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:07pm

      Teachers should not have to deal with violent children. I have no sympathy for this child. Her parents obviously have not taught her how to behave at school. I don’t care how old the child is. Not teachers or students should have to fear for their safety…and this child was knocking over bookshelves and throwing things.

      To those who think it is easy to restrain a 6 year old….I have seen 6 year olds in this scenario and they can do ALOT of damage as well as physically hurt children and adults. Teachers are not allowed to physically restrain a child so what exactly are they to do…just sit and watch while their classroom is destroyed? And who will clean it up and replace the broken materials…certainly not the child’s family.

      I say call the police.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:15am

      @abbygirl1994

      And you are part of the problem.

      The child should have had her butt popped. Then the parents called to take her home for the day.

      It’s that simple.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:17am

      @Misha

      You got it. Parental failure. Corporal punishment from the school is what you have left, or the State. Which do you prefer? The moronic “teachers should be taught to…” what? Suck up to the child? Negotiate? Fail.

      Fail the child. Teachers are typically taught to fail children. Indeed.

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    • wordweaver
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:11am

      I agree with Misha – the failure here started in the home. This child had no respect for authority at school because she had not been taught to respect adults at home. When a six-year-old is sent to the principal to be disciplined, she should be fearing for her liberty – not looking for an opportunity to tear up the place. I empathize with school officials today – they’re the ones who are “handcuffed”. Maybe a skilled teacher or administrator could have defused this situation, but with every passing year they see more and more kids coming in that have no sense of respect for authority. The reason is simple: their parents don’t have it either.

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    • USAOneNationUnderGod
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:17am

      Baddoggy, reconsider the meaning of the rod in “spare the rod, spoil the child”. The rod is meant as to guide a child, not to beat them. This begins and ends at home with the parents. My sympathy goes out to this young child and others like her who are still very little. It’s startling that she was treated like a criminal and that the school staff was unable to calm her. Where were her parents? I assume they were called first? A great website for all you loving and striving parents out there… http://www.parentingpassageway.com. God bless.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:49am

      10-12 years from now she’ll weigh 200 pounds and will be starring in YouTube videos showing her throwing chairs and beating people up at a WaffleHut because some asked her to pass the ketchup while she was texting on her free welfare cellphone.

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    • RoqueGerig
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 8:35am

      Police intervention is simptomatic of many an ill in our society. Neither am I going to restrain such a child because society will punish me if I do. Tazers come to mind and George Zimmerman, presumed guilty with scant evidence by many. We are being trained to allow the authorities to control us. Dovetailing our willingness to be controlled; our betters are arming themselves for who knows what, but it ain’t good.
      ourcivilisation.com

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    • Mastermagi
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 8:48am

      For what it’s worth, I think everyone failed in this case: the little girl failed because, at 6, she should know better than to act like that. The parents failed because it‘s unlikely this is the first tantrum the child threw and they didn’t correct her behavior. The school failed by calling the police, and not responding more appropriately. The police failed by handcuffing and arresting a 6 year old.

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    • Misty Williams
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 8:56am

      My daughter was removed from her first grade classroom at age six, dragged out between two MP’s, and taken to the principal’s office. She had started out giggling and goofing off, and liked the attention she got from the other students so much, she started acting like an ape, turning over desks, and jumping up and down on a book shelf. If I had done that in the first grade, I would have been taken to the principal’s office by my ear, thoroughly spanked and then sent home for round two! But the teacher in my dau’s classroom was forbidden from handling the children. And, after the teacher, and the principal had no luck getting her to calm down, they had two choices, let the girl run the room, or call the MP’s. They did the right thing. My dau. then went to a special program for delinquents for a month. Youngest student they ever had. Scared her green. So much the better. Of course, I started home schooling the next year for unrelated reasons, but just the same, I still think the school did the right thing.

      We (collectively as a nation) “handcuff” teachers and prevent them from disciplining students and keeping order, then gripe and whine and boo-hoo when order and discipline go out the window and education suffers. Well, we (collectively) have gotten just what we asked for.

      Good job, police. Glad someone is still out there trying to keep order.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:13am

      just a few short decades ago, the school would have taken this little heathen to the principles office and tore her little butt from the frame with a paddle. She would have been sent home, and them dad would have taken a leather belt, and knocked sparks from her butt. that is back when we had disciplined children, and we ranked top in the world in math and science.

      Now we wonder why we have so many folks behind bars in this nation. We replaced biblical discipline with humanism (the state sponsored religion). Now we have the trophy generation expressing their selves, when they should be sitting down and shutting up.\

      It is only going to get worse.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:17am

      @flabbygirl1994

      This child has been harmed by parents and a school that failed to discipline her. The little heathen was running through the school like she owned it. She is the what the multicultural education has created. Fear not, Obama has a welfare system in the projects waiting for her.

      Prov 13 24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:29am

      Last year in a private school in Georgia, I attended a end of year awards ceremony. It was different than most new wave schools, in that most kids did not get awards. Only those deserving awards got them.

      I watched my eleven year old daughter (who skipped two grades) get every first place award for academics. She took first in math, science, language, Bible, spelling. She also had perfect attendance, and was voted best middle school students by her peers, and also was voted best student by teachers. She also placed top five in the state for competitive spelling bee, and played high school volleyball and softball. This success is not genetic, is not from being gifted, is simple discipline that was instituted from day one. Discipline with lots of hugs, love, teaching, mentoring, and Bible, and a dedicated stay at home mom are the key to success. Americans use to know this, but they put down the Bible, and turned on the MTV, and all the logic ceased.

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    • Misty Williams
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:37am

      I feel like I should clarify something here.
      My daughter was a terrifying child. I had one run-in with the school after another–I was called neglectful and it was said that my dau was raising herself because I wouldn’t care for her. My response to this was “Are you kidding? I couldn’t ignore her if I wanted to!” She was always up to something, and I had to keep her at my side continuously, and watch her like a hawk. By the time she was 4 I had learned that the only way to maintain discipline with my daughter was to be prepared to restrain her. Spankings did nothing, removing privileges did nothing. She would take these disciplinary actions and laugh in my face or become even more defiant. By FOUR years old! But I did NOT make excuses for her, and I did not expect others to. We even tried medicating her (against my wishes) because the school threatened action against her dad and I (child protective services, children all removed, etc etc) because we didn’t want to medicate. The meds landed her in the hospital with liver and kidney problems. She didn’t start to calm down until she was 16 years old, and I was, very frankly, shocked that she survived that long, as her antics got ever more bizarre and wild. But I never stopped trying to get her to control herself.

      All that background out there, I still think the school did what was right, calling police both for my dau. and on this child. Children cannot be allowed to run amok, not just for “control” but for their own

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:14am

      Misty Williams

      I would dare say that you do not know how to spank then.

      Most Americans do not know how, and many that do spank, swat at kids, and do nothing more than anger them, and have done nothing to cause discipline.

      Here is a little formula for you, and if applied to the butt of a four year old, I will guarantee it will work. Go to Walmart, and purchase a ping pong paddle. Speak to the child, and let them know offences that will result in a spanking. Accidents should not result in a spanking, but you will see plenty of parents that will swat a child for spilling something, then do nothing about disobedience, or lying, or back talk.

      Disobedience, lying, stealing, cheating, back talk should result in punishment. Say for instance you tell a child to pick up their blocks, and they just walk away, or say “no”. Go to the child, (not out of anger, and do not jerk them around). Look them in the face, tell them the infraction (disobedience), tell them that they will receive a spanking. If the child will not look you in the face, then hold them by the cheeks with one hand, and look them in the face. Bend them over your lap, and give about five to ten good whacks across the butt.

      the most important part of the punishment is what happens after the spanking. If the child screams out of anger, stomps, pushes their lip out, then it is time for round two. Put them back over your lap, and give a good firm ten whacks again.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:20am

      spanking continued

      after round two, check their attitude again. If they still want to have a fit, then go to round three. I will guarantee you that after round three, that little butt will be stinging, and the attitude will get right. When they start that little lip quivering deal, you will know that you have accomplished the goal. This is when you explain again why you had to punsih them, and you let them know that it was the childs actions or disobedience that caused the punishment. Let the child know that you love them, and that you punish them out of love. Usually within 30 minutes or so, the child will come back, appologize (Never force an apology) and want a hug.

      If you spank like this, I will guarantee results. You have to do it every time a child is disobedient. In a short while, you will very seldom spank, as the child will do what they are told.

      Never spank, swat, or hit out of anger, and there is never any reason to cuss, yell, or holler at children. If you are mad, send the child to a room, and wait until you are no longer angry, and then spank. If the spanking is done proper, you will not do it often.

      If Americans could apply this knowledge, we would have a drastically lower prison population.

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:33pm

      Teach em while they’re young!

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    • xcppr
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:26pm

      abbygirl wake up to the real world.they should have maced the little thug.

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    • thomas1946
      Posted on April 22, 2012 at 10:09pm

      wh? no one remembers the little “white” girl this was done to years ago down in Florida? same BS. temper tantrum and cops handcuffed and arrested her etc. parents are to blame in most instances. ever see some of these little twerps being nasty in stores etc. good whack on the arse might have stopped this long ago. plus the parents peeing and moaning? i smell a lawsuit here!

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  • garylee123
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:49pm

    Hmmm. Pictures of the kid and relatives, but no pictures of the school damage? Shouldn’t a picture be printed with the article or would that also be “devastating”. Typical AP. Biased and slanted. Kudos to the Police.

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  • Delaware Patriot
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:48pm

    After watching what the parents had to say (taking no personal responsibility) I can tell you that kid better get use to the cuffs. She’s heading for a life where they (cuffs) may be a daily thing. If I had ever acted that way in school, the principal would have given me the paddle…then I would have gotten it again from my parents for embarrassing them. We’re too soft on kids today IMHO

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:54pm

      that was my thought this will not even be close to the last time she is in cuffs. get ready for the lawsuit to begin too I am so sick of this garbage. the parents need a a spanking they are good for nothing.

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  • Midwest Blonde
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:47pm

    If children were taught at home how to behave at school, we wouldn’t have this problem. Also if kids were spanked by their parents once in a while for this kind of behavior, we wouldn’t have this problem.

    Kids aren’t being taught respect, proper behavior or punished for their mis-behavior. Might help if the parents had been taught respect, and disciplined……. The problem started in way back….. when spanking was frowned upon.

    I got spanked if I misbehaved – NOT beaten, spanked, bare hand to clothed bottom – not enough to hurt, but enough to know I’d done wrong.

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  • Tom
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:47pm

    Sorry I didn’t read the article its the same all around America multiple generations of useless lazy unintelligent animals reproducing and expecting everyone else to raise there garbage.

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  • jnt4136
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:46pm

    Make the state and schools bring up MY KIDS WHAT A JOKE

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  • Onowicit
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:43pm

    Yea. Spanking is abuse.
    10 years she’ll be having sex on wall street, breaking windows, and calling it a protest.

    Poor kid. good luck with that future.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:41pm

    you already know how the parents are if the kid acted like that. So it’s a real shame that when a police man shows up and puts a little fear in her, the parents didn’t back up the police and say , “Youre lucky that’s all that happened”. But, no, now they will teach her that what she did was OK because they will get the police in trouble. Remember when the police would “scare” the kids and then the parents would give it to the kids worse? But that was back when the jails weren’t full and most people respected each other. I would like to say to the parents that your actions in this matter will probably decide if she goes to prison later in life.

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  • Firebrand
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:41pm

    If they didn’t use cuffs, then they would have to use physical force for restraint. How do you think that would have gone over? The cuffing was the least physically traumatic for everyone involved. It was the best solution.

    If the girl is normal with no mental illness, then my guess is that she is lacking a healthy dose of respect for authority. Wasn’t there a time when you got disciplined at home if you messed up at school? Do parents still do that? I didn’t act up in school because I was scared of the consequences I would face at home.

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  • bree001
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:39pm

    I drove behind a bus and watched kids punching each other, climbing over seats, in the isles, and yelling. I thanked God that I’m able to drive my child to and from school. I’m sick and tired of undisciplined children, parents are either too tired or too lazy. My sons teachers and strangers always comment on how well behaved my son is. We actually discipline him, read the bible to him, go to church, pray, and teach him moral and values. http://www.brendasblog7.com/home-page

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  • oriondma05
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:39pm

    How many bounties from the NBPP and hammer beatings is this going to cause?

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  • 208hendrix2020
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:38pm

    i agree that some children need to be thrown away and lose the key, while others just need some talking to. this isn’t a failure of one system or another its a failure of them all. The school should have tried contacting the parents or emergency contact for the child, and only if neither can be reached than the police. However, i believe that the police need new policies about putting a 6 year old in handcuffs, it is emotionally tramatizing and unnecessary for the “protection” of the officer. If a cop cant subdue a 6 year old child without force why should he be allowed to to subdue a 26 year old with force? and finally we get to the parents, yes discipline should be first, however we need to start with the state. The state(s) have made it impossible for a parent to discipline a child, however, a good parent doesnt need to hit their child for discipline. In fact where i live it is illegal to leave a mark on a child for disciplinary actions, and the courts even go to say that “something that isnt part of the daily routine cannot be used…” well im sorry, but if a child needs a good slapping from their parents we should be abled to give it to them. Do i agree, no i would sue the police for needlessly removing my child from the school and kidnapping, and id go after the school for allowing an unauthorized person to remove my child from the school. when i was a kid detention for after the tantrum, quite and alone time while throwing the tantrum… ARRESTED AND CHARGED???

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:59pm

      You don’t have any children, do you? It’s pretty obvious.

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    • Dalady
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:06pm

      The escalation in the tone of your post @208 is a little disturbing, much like your thinking.

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  • justangry
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:35pm

    All of us here would have been paddled. Probably with a big mean nasty one with holes drilled in it. I think it’s time to re-examine why we’re not allowed to do that as a society anymore. Police handcuffing a child… well something about that rubs me the wrong way.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:53pm

      me too but really with all of these idiot lefty teachers do we honestly trust their judgement to paddle our kids? I don’t when every other day some pervert teacher is caught in the act with one? I think they need a private security guard at the schools and a swift call to the parents with full legal disclosure upon registration that if your child is violent or harming another student they will be put physically into a room by the guard etc. and parents called immediately. Too many rotten parents breeing rotten awful worthless children these days. I have a grade school aged child and watch some of these animals. I must say my feral horse acts better on his first day in captivity then most of these kids do. It is pretty pathetic.

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  • wakeus_com
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:34pm

    This is typical. Watch the raw video of these clown parents … blame, blame, blame some “other kid.”
    The reporter is weak, too. Pathetic questions.

    http://tinyurl.com/7fk4eak

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  • jnt4136
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:34pm

    If a kid at 6 can,t follow police orders WHAT IN THE H_E_L_L do you think at 15 THAY WILL NEXT TIME THAY WILL GET SHOT HOW WILL YOU FELL ABOUT THAT THE LEFT DOMBA_S_S

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  • tzion
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:34pm

    I have an Autistic brother who would often have be restrained during a tantrum. Still does sometimes which is problematic since he’s now 18. I think taking her down to the station was unnecessary but they were following procedure. As for the handcuffing, that I can agree with. Having seen tantrums this bad I can say from personal experience there really is no other way to handle except to restrain the child until s/he calms down.

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  • Scaz
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:32pm

    As horrible as this situation sounds, you really can’t blame the school district for calling the cops. This tactic is being used more and more because had the teacher, principal, etc…done something to stop this kid, there would be lawsuits up the kazoo.

    Bad parenting probably plays a big role here too. If you let your kid do anything they want, which is the case with many parents of this generation, this is the result. Kids never hear the word ‘no“ or ”stop”. When they grow up, they end up at Occupy Wall Street fighting for what they “deserve”.

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    • 208hendrix2020
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:44pm

      I am offended that you have the audacity to even suggest that the Occupy Movement is trying to get what we “deserve”… We are trying to take control of the US Government away from the corporations and return it to the people where it belongs. According to current law, AOL is a person, and as such has the right to vote!!! In my personal opinion a corporation isnt a person and that for the corporations to control our government is an outcry that america has ignored for nearly 100 years already…

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    • Plan B
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:59pm

      @208hendrix2020

      I thought you guys wanted the taxpayers to pay your student loans, too. I have heard that more than once from the occupy croud. So, of course we guess you want more free stuff too.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:04pm

      Occupiers are looking for some Obama stash…and maybe free internet.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:42am

      SCAZ,Why not call the parents first? Tell the child that their parents have been called. Watch the reaction of the child. Perhaps this child lives in an abusive environment. Maybe there is a medical condition. Remove the other children from the class room right away. Advise the parents that this child must have counseling. Try to get to the bottom of the problem for the sake of the child. Putting her in a cell and hand cuffing her is extreme.I agree the parents and the aunt were to quick to put the blame of the outburst on someone else but the child needs help, this is not normal behavior. Where in the heck was the school nurse or the guidence counselor? Surely someone could have taken the time to try to calm her down until the parents arrived. I just hate to see any child thrown away without any chance. Any remark about her skin color or any assumption about her future doesn’t seem appropriate, this is a six year old child who obviously needs help.

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  • football lady
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:29pm

    Sounds like she was putting herself in danger too. Where did she learn this behavior?

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  • Patriot Z
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:25pm

    good…ya know kids need tough love. perhaps if she spent a little time in cuffs she may ve scared enough to act straight. but the parents will make sure she is more spoled than ever. my kid dosent do that and he is 3. when he tries, immediate pow pows. my wife dosent get why he listens to me and not her (she only gives time outs)

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  • dlloftin
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Go police officer! Even a 6 year old can be a danger to themselves and others.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:17pm

    small animals can hurt too.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:16pm

    Children can hurt Adults… and Crazy Children can kill People. The shame is… Parents never admit their children are Evil… or need help!

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:15pm

    Failed parenting.

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:13pm

    Salecia and her folks need a spanking. My child has never acted that way ever let alone at school. In this litigious society the schools really are in a tough spot, if they touch your child they get sued and lose their funding. How about don’t raise rotten kids. I am sure the officers were rather embarassed to be arresting a 6 year old but something tells me this will not be the last time this girl is arrested in her lifetime.

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  • blanco5
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:13pm

    There‘s a little black boy at my kid’s elementary school who does whatever he wants and knows that no one will touch him. The parents are useless and challenge the school if they even try to discipline him. He walks past other students and will bump into them but they are scared to say anything. The teacher seems to cater to him as well for the same reason. I volunteered in the class one day and could not believe my eyes. I WISH I could see him in handcuffs!

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