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If an 8 year old kid is coming at me with a sharp piece of wood, and he's violently throwing a tantrum, and I had pepper spray on my belt, you best believe I'd be using it.
Yeah those 8 year olds can be just terrifying can’t they?!? But why stop with pepper spray? If you had a Taster on your belt, I’d believe you’d be using it too.
As a retired police officer, you would know. When someone is hell-bent on not being stopped, it is extremely difficult to stop them, child OR adult.. Add a weapon, and I can guarantee you that it has the makings of an ugly scenario.
This is not the first time that police were called to the school for this same child.
The mother admits he has "anger" problems.
If each incident gets worse..a student could be next.
I heard the TV interview with him and his mother on the radio.
He admitted he "kinda" thought about killing them.
His mother says the problem is with the school, not her.
This is from an 8 year old. Let this go and he will hurt someone soon enough, especially if he blames it on his anger.."they made me so angry" was what he said.
The child needs to be removed from that class and given some serious medical attention.
Colorado police pepper spray violent 8-year-old boy; mother says 'excessive'
"The incident, which occurred at Glennon Heights Elementary School on Feb. 22, was not the first for the child, who, both he and his mother admit, has anger issues. The police had been called on two previous occasions, although events did not escalate to the point of pepper spray in those incidents."
Yeah those 8 year olds can be just terrifying can’t they?!? But why stop with pepper spray? If you had a Taster on your belt, I’d believe you’d be using it too.
If I felt it was necessary to avoid further harm, yes.
Any physical restraint used on the kid would've caused more harm to both the kid and the person using physical restraint.
People forget, the kid was using a sharp stick and admitted to wanting to "whack" people with it.
Why do people keep forgetting this rather important fact?
This is not the first time that police were called to the school for this same child.
The mother admits he has "anger" problems.
If each incident gets worse..a student could be next.
I heard the TV interview with him and his mother on the radio.
He admitted he "kinda" thought about killing them. His mother says the problem is with the school, not her.
This is from an 8 year old. Let this go and he will hurt someone soon enough, especially if he blames it on his anger.."they made me so angry" was what he said.
The child needs to be removed from that class and given some serious medical attention.
Colorado police pepper spray violent 8-year-old boy; mother says 'excessive'
"The incident, which occurred at Glennon Heights Elementary School on Feb. 22, was not the first for the child, who, both he and his mother admit, has anger issues. The police had been called on two previous occasions, although events did not escalate to the point of pepper spray in those incidents."
I get the idea she's composed entirely of excriment.
Wow, That must have been some tantrum. Even the kid said he probably deserved it.
Colo. police pepper-spray misbehaving boy, 8 | US National Headlines | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20110406/US.Child.Pepper.Sprayed/ - broken link)
Colo. police pepper-spray misbehaving boy, 8
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — The mother of an 8-year-old boy pepper-sprayed by suburban Denver police as he threw a violent tantrum at his elementary school said Wednesday that she wishes authorities had chosen to talk him down instead.
Police in Lakewood say they pepper-sprayed 8-year-old Aidan Elliott twice Feb. 22 at Glennon Heights Elementary School after he refused to drop a piece of wooden wall trim that he was trying to stab them with.
"I wanted to make something sharp, like if they came out, 'cause i was so mad at them," the boy said on NBC's "Today" show. "I was going to try to whack them with it."
That's good for the brat.
Parents should learn to control your unruly monsters.
Police should've spanked him and took him home.
You bleeding hearts always see a child on tv and say, oh look at poor Aidan.
Sounds like that kid and his Mom need some help. The pepper spray was probably better than having to restrain the kid and possibly injuring him.
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