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Originally Posted by Wormius
I get that putting the kid of some kind of display is pretty bad, but apart from shackling or cuffing the kid, what are less severe options?
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In my previous career, as a teacher/principal, I didn’t have to shackle a kid once and some of the kids got physical while being bigger than the boy in the picture. There are less intervention methods that could have been employed by the officers and the most useful method would likely have been privacy, talking and patience to calm the situation.
To me, the way the officers handled this situation is representative of other problems with current policing. Police appear, IMO, to be using higher level interventions when less forceful methods would suffice. It might be out of fear, power, lack of training, etc but I think the trend is worrisome.