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Kindergarten Girl Handcuffed by Police After Temper Tantrum

Kindergarten Girl Handcuffed by Police After Temper Tantrum
A little girl’s parents are livid after she was handcuffed by police in school for throwing a temper tantrum. The girl is only 6 years old and the arresting officer is not under investigation for what he did to the child. The parents are meeting with local community leaders and ministers.  They are also planning…
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40 Responses to Kindergarten Girl Handcuffed by Police After Temper Tantrum

  1. Superfly11 Reply

    April 26, 2012 at 11:43 am

    What is wrong with you people. The Kindergarten teacher should of whipped that a*s and sat her down in the chair and dared her to move. the little girl would of did exactly what she was told to do. My mother raised 7 children and it worked on us and we turned out great. This is not a racial thing it is about a bad a*s child that needed her a*s spanked. What type of Parents are they? Money hungry!

  2. Leonard Reply

    April 25, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    i will bet my bottom dollar that this wasn’t the first time this child act up. She probably did this as home and the parents sweap it under the rug. Why would the parents wants to sue instead trying to get this child some help. Try to find out what happen and solve the issue so that it will not happen again.

  3. Tiffany Reply

    April 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    I’m sorry but if those cops would’ve have restrained her without cuffing her and she was acting like that, the parents woul’ve been mad anyway. She’s six and cutting up like that- knocking s**t over,BITING A d**n DOOR k**b. I would’ve beat the h**l out of her. And i don’t mean abuse, I’m talking behavliral correction. The good book says “spare not the rod”. she needs all o the above. it’s obvious these parent aint doinh what theyre supposed to do and expect people to put up with that. GTFOH! I don’t blame the cops. Everybody want to ride Trayvon’s situation because they black and get arrested. Only if it’s unjustified. SMH.

  4. Angela Thomas Reply

    April 20, 2012 at 3:10 am

    It depends on what triggered this child, she could have been going through something from home.She could be ill at some point or not.She might even have been a small talk bully. But whatever the circumstance was, I would have secluded her from the other kids for they belong to somebody to, yes tantrums could become out of hand/uncontrollable, these days and time you can’t wait to see what the outcome is gonna be when you have somebody’s else kids at risk, if my kids were still small, I would want them safe at the school and elsewhere, I would have called for backup as the child was being monitored by staff, this will leave a reflection in the minds of the other children thinking they can test the waters as well and this is not good.Yes the parents home need to be evaluated, to see what’s up to get on top of this episode, so it won’t be anymore.A beating will not be the answer, ain’t no need for everybody being cuffed somebody got to be the strong voice,we need more leaders than followers at this time and listeners.Hang in there child and family.

  5. Pam Reply

    April 19, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    When I first heard about this, I was horrified that they would put a Kindergartner in handcuffs. However, after reading about her behavior and also reading that the parents minimized it as “mood swing”, I see things differently. What she did was a very serious matter. Better to learn early on that that kind of behavior will not be tolerated and that there are consequences to her behavior. She wasn’t harmed. The policemen did their duty. Parents should back up the police and appropriately punish the child.

  6. Cheyenne Reply

    April 19, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    Had this child had tantrums before or pwas this the first time? If so what was discussed between the principal and parant? If this was the first time then what is the Board of Education’s policy?
    Many children thru out the history of schools have had tantrums so why start binding them? Principals and parents historically have worked together on these issues.
    Children of all ethnic groups have been known to exhibit this behavior and Principals have used reason and guidance. Binding and abusing a 6 year old means that sadism has crept its ugly face into the school systems.
    If the chid was out of control, she should have been placed in an empty room and parents called to the school. From that point the child should be checked medically to see what the underlining problems are.

    The child should have been checked to see if she sustained injuries from the teacher/police assault.
    We all have a tendency to lose it at times. (intermittent explosive disorder) lol
    Some of these comments are hostile and immature with no solution. (my impression of u-let’s all pile on a little kid). What we know is that school systems are under a dictatorship and they decide who gets abused.

  7. JWRIGHT Reply

    April 19, 2012 at 3:12 am

    JUST LOOK AT ALL THESE COMMENTS. MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THIS LITTLE GIRL AND THE PARENTS. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO? SO YOU THINK AFTER BEING HANDCUFFED AND THROWN IN A JAIL CELL, THE 6 YEAR OLD JUST NEED HER A@@ BEAT? THIS IS REALLY SCARY BASED ON THE COMMENTS THAT ARE POSTED. OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING TERRORIZED. JUST THINK ABOUT SITUATIONS THAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT?

    • Bernie Reply

      April 20, 2012 at 4:56 am

      Sure she needs her a*s beat. What I don’t understand is how you can’t see that. Too many want to blame the white man for everything. The white man didn’t make her do all that. Do you think asking her to sit her self down and be quiet is asking too much? What would you have had them do with all the h**l she was raising? I’m talking not only from the experience of being a father, I’m talking from the experience of being raised by a father that didn’t negotiate with us. It sounds harsh…but guess what it works. I took both of my kids to work(office setting) with me one saturday. They were 4 and 6. No one knew they were there until they came to my cubicle and saw them sitting in the floor playing with toys I’d brought with them. My daughter got her last whipping at 5 and my son probably at 3 or 4. I got them in line early and thats all it takes. You can’t wait until they are 18 and start working on discipline. It starts when they are 1 and 2. Anyone that has any children knows that kids test the waters. I bet if we bring that same little girl to your house and she starts wrecking the place, you’d want it stopped. So what would you suggest? Negotiate until she decides to stop tearing your house to h**l….or better yet…lets just ask the parents to leave with their child…that way you don’t have to deal with it. Let her tear up and mangle someone else’s house. No you beat her a*s and make her understand she can’t tear up other people’s s**t without consequence. Me and you know right now what would happen if we go out and run a red light and tear someone’s car up…why should it be any different for her? What would happen if you or I started tearing up the school office because we couldn’t get our way? I think they’d put us in cuffs…o you don’t want her in cuffs because she’s a little girl….wake up…she was tearing the office to h**l…did you read that? They I’m sure asked her to stop and she didn’t…so the natural thing to do was to restrain her to keep her from hurting anyone else. You are right…what is the world coming to? You sound like one that wants to negotiate. If not what is your solution other than blame the white man for cuffing her bad a*s because she didn’t want to learn english. So what is your solution when she gets 18 and hadn’t graduated because they’ve put her out of school? Ya’ll can have that village stuff. Back in the day everyone was on the same page. See our ideas are different. I still say beat that a*s when they are young and instill fear in them at 1 or 2 along with love. I’d whip mine @$$ but I promise you even today…I hug them 4 or 5 times a day…but they know not to try and cross me. There aren’t but two adults in this house. You negotiate with yours if you want…they will be walking around in your house laying around s******g all day at 30 while you are out working to replace the gallon of milk a day they are drinking. If you expect nothing of them you will get nothing and that’s what’s going on with this little girl. Has nothing to do with the white man. Ya’ll need to get off that nonesense. I’ll be the first to say that some white folks aren’t worth a d**n..but this is in house nonesense. Your child throwing a tantrum has nothing to do with the white man….it has to do with the level of expections you have for your kids.

  8. mozlyric Reply

    April 19, 2012 at 12:26 am

    There is a two-fold problem here. FIRST as parents we must take responsibility for our children and return to the village mentality where we support one another in raising children of virtue and moral character. And if we know of a family that has a child that has problems, we should have alternative educational settings that is more conducive for that child, and or programs (holistic healing) BEFORE the system gets a hold of them. Our children suffer greatly in America’s education system and who knows the reason behind this child’s hysteria.

    SECOND there is a historic tradition of harsh punishment toward us in this nation and our children are not immune from the effects of Jim Crowism. Our children (according to the latest research) are overrepresented in out of school suspensions AND juvenile incarcerations. And as a student researcher, I can tell you it is ABSOLUTELY FALSE that our children misbehave or commit more crimes than white children or children from any other cultures. There is a dark spirit on this Nation where black, brown, and even poor white children are more and more being sacrificed to “molech”. And unfortunately blacks in high places as overseers (teachers, principles, board members, police officers etc.) AID in the systematic OVER-PUNISHMENT of our children in the school and juvenile system or worse they look the other way. We can solve this social phenomenon by returning to the old pathway of teaching our own children by re-segregating and setting up a network of support for homeschooling in our communities. We pull our children from their system, they will get the message. And our children WILL thrive better.

  9. DADDY MAXXX Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    Jesus as if this new news? The South African Para Military police did this on a daily basis,the Portugese did the same when Angola was their colony,the Americans did the same to the Chammorans in Guam when Guam became a U.S. possession in 1898 and the Australians use to do the same to the local Aborigines back in the day as a normal day to scare tactic to keep the local youth inline and to give them a record to keep track of them. White American police are just catching on.

  10. N Ellis Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    This kid is obviously behavior disordered. The school has few options. If they touch her, restrain her, the parents will want to have them arrested. It seems harsh but there is little schools can do today to contain/restrain out of control children.

    Before I retired, as a a building principal, I had a parent tell me that she did not want the teachers raising their voices at her child because it upset him. I am sorry, but just visit many of our schools, and you will be appalled at the lack of discipline and respect students have towards their teachers.

    we have got to get back to the days of cooperation between parents and teachers.

  11. Biodun Beck Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 6:03 pm

    USA has become a laughingstock to the world.America has gone from OFFICIALLY executing children to harbouring child murderers(GEORGE ZIMMERMAN) and to molesting children by the most uneducated Policemen in the world.It’s just a big shame.

  12. James Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    No child should be subjected to this unless in extreme cases where the child is uncontrolable. I believe in this case the police and school were justified in what they did. It was obvious that this little girl could have done harm to her teacher, other students, and maybe even the police. In todays world, it is better to be safe than sorry. I would really have to question the parents in this case because it is obvious they have not seen the warning signs of a troubled person, or they have ignored it. Handcuff the parents, haul them away for parenting training and call it a lesson learned….

  13. Bernie Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    The child clearly needs her @$$ beat. I know too many teachers that deal with similiar behavior because the parents don’t take discipline seriously. They start being hellions in pre-k and then the faculty thinks they’ll grow out of it. That’s nonsense. If she had been 18 or 19 she would have been shot. i think they should handcuff her lil bad @$$. Maybe now the parents will take more responsibility. I saw where someone said they should have called the parents. Do you really think this was just her first time acting a fool? She’s just been testing the waters to see how much she can get away with. Well she hit the end this time. The parents need to get her in line before the police do. We need to stop trying to use race as a defense for everything to. This is about a bad @$$ child. It doesn’t matter what they would have done to a bad white child. It is no excuse for yours or a Black child to act this way. I’m Black and I’m a democrat, but this is rediculous. They need to put that little hellion out of the school before she contaminates the rest of the school. yea…i said it. Stop making excuses and get your kids under control. i’ve got two of my own and i would have gone to the school and beat their @$$ for much less. If a teacher had ever called and said “I told your son to go left and he went right”, I would’ve beat his @$$ at school and he knew that. Same for my daughter. So I’m talking from experience. BEAT HER @$$.

    • Phyllis Reid Reply

      April 18, 2012 at 5:35 pm

      Bernie, you are right on the money! Umpteen years ago when I was in school, my dad had to straighten out my teacher. He let her know not to put her hands on me….but when we got home, Dad let me know…”if I didn’t straighten up, I would get the whipping of my life! Disciple starts at home. Your child may be cute to you, but think of all the kids these teachers have to deal with. We’ve gotten a way from family dinners or just talking with our children. Ask them about their day. I know that sounds absurd
      to the younger generation. But deep down, I believe they would love it!

    • D.C. Reply

      April 19, 2012 at 12:02 am

      I AGREE COMPLETELY. She obviously was out of control and used to being out of control to get what she wants from her parents. I would have cuffed her too!

    • fig newton Reply

      April 21, 2012 at 3:06 pm

      I feel sorry for any child that has behavioral problems because often times the behavioral problem is not identified and the child suffers. I have been involved with the public school systems special education division. Children with problems are to be tested, emotionally and psychologically to determine their issues. After their diagnosis, there is a team which includes the parents, educators, and lawyers. An individual educational plan is put in place and a placement is decided. There are levels of placement which may keep the child in the class, take the child out of the class for some subjects, take the child out of the class for further emotional and psychology therapy, or the child may be put into a therapeutic school. The school is responsible for addressing the need for special education. There is a lot involved, and from my experience, schools do not want to deal with the special education system. Schools want children who behave. This is not the real world, especially when administrators feel that there is so little humanity and/or discipline in the homes of some children that they have to provide children meals. The kindergarten little girl needs intervention, not police brutality. It is brutal to handcuff a child, especially in front of other child, and lock it up like a common criminal. And we wonder why people grow up to hate cops. Beating a child never served any purpose either. The child learns that they only way to handle any situation that they do not like is to lash out. All parents who beat children should be reported and made to take parenting classes. Put yourself in the childs place, do you want to be beat?

      • Bernie Reply

        April 22, 2012 at 5:12 am

        Lets be real here for a moment. Do you really think doing all of this is going to help? No one has the resources to do all that. Discipline is a proven method to get kids to if nothing else behave. It doesn’t guarantee an A student, but it is obvious to me that this child hasn’t had any discipline and the more excuses you and others make for bad behavior, the more screwed up the child is going to be. The only people who benefit from all that you are talking about are the people who already have an education. All the tests you are talking about running is not going to help that child. You never heard of any of this nonsense going on when we(40 year old’s and older) were in school, nor did they have to run tests and take kids out of certain classes or put them on redlin. I heard the black doctor that seperated the twins say that if a child can sit and play a game for 3 or 4 hours, they don’t need to be on meds to keep them calm in school and I believe that. When they took discipline out of school, they created a serious problem. Whipping a child’s @$$ serves plenty of purpose. The bible even tells you that for you hard core christians. I say hard core because the same ones that are so against whipping a kid’s @$$ are the same ones that are out here marching for having more costly tests and what not to be done that are going to do nothing. You don’t negotiate with children. As soon as we figure that out you’ll stop seeing these kids of acts. You think it was trauma on the child being handcuffed? I think it was a lesson. Like I said, in 10 to 12 years you’ll be reading about that same child having herself shot by police because when they say stop….that’s exactly what they mean. When they say put your hands up, they mean put your hands up and not in your pocket…but when you don’t ever learn respect for authority, you think it’s okay to do the opposite of what was asked and then you get shot. I can think of a lot of messed up things the cops have done, this is not one of them. What did you think they were suppose to do, stand there and wait til the child puts a teacher’s eye out? No, you restrain her. If she were tearing up your house, how long would you have watched before you restrained her, better yet, how would you have restrained her? See it’s easy to sit back and say what the police should have done when you aren’t the police. I put myself in their shoes. They dispatch me(police) to the scene and I stand there and watch along with the other teachers because I’m afraid of what people like you may think, then the child puts someone’s eye out while I’m there…..now who’s at fault? The teachers, the police, the parents? who? You are not being rationale. You are worried about one bad @$$ child and I’m worried about the other 25 that aren’t being taught because she’s acting like a hellion. I know how and my friends grew up and none of us had these kinds of problems. As far as the school is concered with dealing with bad kids. I beg to differ. They put up with too much bs. I know teachers and all of them say the same thing. The schools don’t do enough to protect other students or in many cases the teachers. I think any child that acts like that needs to be put out period. They need a zero tolerance policy. If they start putting kid’s out of school for this type of behavior the first time, parents will take responsibility. Why don’t see that the problem is not the school, it’s the parents. If that same child broke your window on your car, you’d hold the parents responsible, why should the kid acting a d**n fool in class be any different? You want to hold the school and the police responsible for this child clowning and acting a fool. That doesn’t make sense to me.

  14. Keith Kysel Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    Well ifthis as in Nigeria or other African countries it would have been handled different. SHe would have been flogged. Can’t do this in America and teachers have to worry about lawsuits if they physically restrain her. The parents should know that we all don’t have mood swings like that ande ready for a lifetime of probles if they keep making exuces fo her

    • Biodun Beck Reply

      April 18, 2012 at 6:20 pm

      Keith Kysel,did you attend schooling in any African country at all? Nigeria and other African countries do not beat or handcuff children.The action of this Policeman or woman is not acceptable.This is MOLESTATION.Could you imagine your own six years old child being handcuffed?This is sickening.

  15. Virginia Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    It does sound like the child has a serious problem – not just “mood swings” – as others have pointed out. That said, I am a teacher and when I worked at a wealthy, mostly-white elementary school, there was a little white 8-year-old boy with a very serious problem – he literally had psychotic episodes and would try to kill himself and others. The policy was to restrain him – it took four teachers to do so – and carry him (quite literally struggling, kicking and screaming) to a special room that had been completely emptied of all objects, where he was locked in (with an adult watching him through the window) until he would wear himself out and calm down. Finally I believe his parents placed him in a residential treatment program. I think this just shows the difference in how Black children are treated. Four adult women were able to restrain an 8-year-old boy; there’s no excuse for adult male police officers not to be able to restrain a 6-year-old girl. I’m sure it NEVER occurred to anyone at my old school to call the police.

    With all that said, I do think the girl’s parents should be concerned; the description of her behavior sounds far beyond a standard “temper tantrum” and she may need professional intervention of some kind. But as others have pointed out, it is unlikely that she will get the help she may need; instead she will likely continue to be criminalized and ultimately thrown away by society. I don’t know what ultimately happened to the little boy I remember, but I know that he had all kinds of resources devoted to trying to help him. It is unfair, racist, and sad beyond belief that this little girl will probably not receive the same compassionate treatment.

  16. Tunie Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    I work with students for 30yrs. Teachers are told not to touch students.They hit, cuss, bite, throw and anything you can imagine. Parents will come and raise h**l if the students are punished in any way.
    I’m sure this was not this child’s first outburst in the classroom. Nor, is it the first time that her parents have been called. If you are not working in a school you really do not know how bad it can be in the classroom.

    • loveleodes Reply

      April 22, 2012 at 12:29 am

      I totally agree with you! Nowadays parents runnin’ around with the “not my child” attitude. Well h**l yea you’re child is cuttin’ up. Probably because the parents cut up. I have a 6 year old and I can NEVER say what she won’t do out of my eye sight. I know she is too afraid to lose her life to do something like that in my presence. But watch ur child make an a*s out of you, if you think they are angels. I did not say I agree with the handcuffs, but let’s look at all sides. This child is no 1st timer in showin’ her b**t!

  17. Elaine Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Lord Jesus, Never heard or seen anything like this before, what ever happen to calling the parents to the school to pick up there child if they are acting out, It goes to show the time we are living in now, No Patient, The easy way is to have a child Arrested so sad, now days were most of the young generation having kids do not want to discipline there kids, I’m sad to hear this I’m not please with the child being Handcuff, “CRAZY” “CRAZY” My Prayer goes out to the family, please get your house in order.

  18. YaYa Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    I find it absolutely ridiculous that this situation has commanded this amount of outrage. You take discipline out of the hands of a child’s principle contacts (parents and teachers) and you become indignant when the only tools available (restraint) are used. This child was clearly out of control and I am not sure what the response time is for Milledgeville PD but if it is typical then she was out of control and destructive for a while. Had it been my child, I would have been upset and I am not trying to negate the family’s right to feel the same. However, I have to also think of the children and adults that were placed in harm’s way by this behavior. My kid would have gotten his bottom tanned but that is just my approach and my kid would not have tested authority that way.

  19. John Henry Hill Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    What do you do when a six-year-old begins to kick, spit, and bite?

    • Kirk Reply

      April 18, 2012 at 2:55 pm

      Get a belt and explain why this is going to hurt me more than it’s going to hurt you. Then proceed to tear that b**t up!

  20. Randor Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    Evidently, the poor policeman felt his life was in danger. How about this idea? Let’s stop hiring cops that are wimps. They should be required to have a little bit of bravery and maybe even some brains.

  21. Terbear Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    I’m with Gina. Isn’t this the same story from some years back??

    • Tellie B Reply

      April 24, 2012 at 4:04 pm

      Nope, this happened just a couple weeks ago in Milledgeville, GA. It’s been all over the local news here in Atlanta.

  22. Milton Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    They should be concerned that their child was so out of control that the police were called and that restraints were necessary, not that restraints were used.

  23. lhunter Reply

    April 18, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    Yes It seems as though the child has a behavior issue, do to what. The parents are not aware what is causing children to act the way they do. Immunizations, prenatal vitamins, all of these things has affected children behavior no one is speaking out how can a parent fight something they have no idea what the cause…………

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