To Protect and to Serve
By Anthony Gregory • Tuesday April 17, 2012 10:03 AM PDT • 28 Comments
In Georgia, a six-year-old girl threw a temper tantrum, and so police handcuffed her, took her to the station, and charged her with assault and property damage. She was suspended from school until August.
Tags: Criminal Justice, Police 
I am astonished, looking at the comments, how the majority of those commenting think handcuffing a 6 year old and hauling her off to the police station is OK and a good way to teach the child a lesson. And, the police chief who claims it is “policy” to handcuff all detainees in the police car ought to be rigorously informed of the new policy of firing morons masquerading as police chiefs.
Rick Caird | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Good for them! Kids have become out of control due to lack of guidance and discipline. Maybe this little girl will think twice before she behaves like that way again.
Shana | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
that is what happens under a police state and do not think we are from that.
sandra richards | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
your astonishment does not surprise me if you have not worked with young people in the 4 to 14 age range recently as I have done. In this day and age their restraint is probably the only way one could legally touch a child given how quickly parents are to sue a district. It is like winning the lottery when the school conducts any kind of corporal punishment even if the action is legal in the state. It is a very very slippery slope to touch a child in this manner. Still the school had the right to remove here if she was disruptive to the learning process. period.
GIOVANNI TARANTINO | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
The parent(s)should be taken in and mandated to take parenting courses. Parents need to be parents not the children’s buddy. Unless they desire their children to be like the Occupiers then they need to learn what to do. Take responsibility. It is not someone else’s job to raise your child.
Dale Vann | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
That child may have been better behaved if the government wasn’t so gang-ho to keep parents from disciplining thier own children.
Lucy M Young | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
In the good ol’ days, an authoritative adult would have whoopped her little tantrum throwing butt and discussed proper behavior, after giving her time to think about it.
mamazu | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
@Rick... thank GOD for the voice of reason. Saying a prayer for all the respondents’ children. Oh they will be “disciplined” and brought up “right” and will be hauled in to the station when they are much older for dosplacing their anger and hurting people the way they were unfairly punished at home.
Terri | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
You are an idiot!
Nag Hammadi | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Please put down the pipe!
Nag Hammadi | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
At least there are some normal parents out there...good for you!
Nag Hammadi | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Excellent comment, I agree with you 100%.
Nag Hammadi | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Rumor has it that she is trained in mixed martial arts. Busting 6 yr old girls is serious business these days. She is lucky they didn’t use deadly force !
Gary | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
I agree
Gary | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
From what I saw on NBC News, this was way past a temper tantrum. She actually injured the school Principal and they couldn’t reach her mother. I think the action was appropriate because it puts this out-of-control child AND HER MOTHER in the system. Maybe their behavior can be changed before it’s too late.
Mac Newcomb | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
@Shana SHE’S SIX YEARS OLD, YOU DUMBASS.
They don’t exactly have what you and I call “rational thought” and I can see you don’t have what I call a brain.
You're an idiot. | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
If a cop interfered with my child while I was around without discussing with me they’d think twice the second time.
Jimbo | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
yeah,let’s beat that child into submission, oh,but wait,hears an idea,let’s be smarter than the parents that raised such a child,I got an original idea, lets beat the dumb ass parents severly.
tim blow | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
People...the kid pulled down a shelf that gave the principle a concussion and threatened the safety of other children. Yes, the punishment from law enforcement went wayyyy too far, but I would rather have that kid at a police station where I know my children would be safe at school rather than in the same classroom with the brat. Interesting how none of you decided to do any research before you commented on this isn’t it? Did the kid deserve to get punished? YES. Did the kid deserve the punishment that they got? NOOOOOOOOO.
Jake Metcalf | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
yeah,let’s beat that child into submission, oh,but wait,hears an idea,let’s be smarter than the parents that raised such a child,I got an original idea, lets beat the dumb — parents severly.
tim blow | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Shana, you are an absolute bafoon! What makes you think handcuffing a six year old is acceptable? In what universe is that OK? How about a little compassion for a CHILD! I sure hope you don’t have any children! If you do they probably refer as Mother Adolf! Six years old is a very impressionable age. Remaining calm and talking usually works. Duh, I wish I would have thought of that. Amazing that someone like you can even procreate is scary beyond belief!
Marc R | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
The Liberal media seems to be talking more about the comments against handcuffing the child. If they hadn’t handcuffed the child and got her under control and then she got hurt who would they be sueing? This is a no win situation especially in this state no one whats anyone to tell them what to do. They don’t respect Law enforcement. They by their actions teach their children the same. I for one am sick and tired of comments made by people like.Rick and Sandra their thinking is crazy.
Jackiedelray | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
I agree with you on that point, but it never stopped me from discipling mine. Discipline starts very early and doesn’t have to be spanking all the time. Children have to learn there are consequences to their actions to many times I see parents so self envolved they haven’t a clue what their children are up to.
Jackiedelray | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Children are the way they are because of the way their parents ALLOW them to be. My daughter threw one – and ONLY one – tantrum in a store. I quietly picked her up, took her to the car, took her home, left her with her father and returned to complete my shopping. The drive home was me quietly yet sternly reminding her what proper behavior was. It never happened again. At home, she got a spanking – in public, she was quietly reprimanded. But parents who are constantly saying “if you don’t stop, I’ll (fill in the blank with your favorite threat)” and never follow through only teach the child that there is really no penalty for misbehavior. CHILDREN NEED LIMITS – THEY WANT LIMITS – SET THE DAMN LIMITS AND STICK TO THEM.
Dawn | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Obviously you are not a parent...
tony p | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
Tx Independent...and Anthony here...as per usual...
alas...all of the complaining is not addressing the State ownership of the Children and the complicity in that thievery by the oblivious/overworked/lazy/incapable “parent(s)”......and the complicity of those who DO KNOW the scam and the raison d’etre of State Education.......by NOT saying ABOLISH!! GOVT education but “making it(State Ed) better”...or “working with the teachers” or “calling for more funding” or pulling THIER kids out but not doing anything for the left behind prisoners.... and it is BIPARTISAN. Notice Willard yesterday was hesitant and hmmed and hawwed when caught on tape with donors about ABOLISHING DoEd....he insteasd wants to “combine” it with State ops...or...make it more streamlined..ugh.
Chris Bieber | Apr 17, 2012 | Reply
This is a good advertisement for home schooling.
FloridaBorn | Apr 19, 2012 | Reply
Well said indeed.
But let us not forget that many believe that most if not all of the behavioral and worse problems seen in our schools today are a direct result of our governments involvement in our personal lives.
Luckily the local PD officer did not find a “probable cause” for suspecting their 6 yo detainee was a terrorist as we would then be having a much different discussion.
Just a thought but wouldn’t it make more sense to leave parenting to the child’s parents, and leave the police to policing?
LD | Apr 23, 2012 | Reply