Autistic boy, 10, handcuffed by police during anxiety attack

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http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/pol ... 10/xt4nmbu

To be honest, more should have been done.

The boy is now traumatized.

That looks like something that the cops of the 21st century would do. Were they young cops?

Sorry about the arrogance. It seemed to be that baby boomers accepted me, and my peers have given me grief, my entire life.

wow, just wow. what in the hell has law enforcement come to.

I have absolutely no idea. All I know is that they were police and they unlawfully handcuffed this boy.

Many of the most violent and despicable acts are carried about by police or others in positions of authority. Not shockingly, when you give a bunch of dumb meat heads weapons and the license to use them, sometimes they do.

Sorry if I offend anyone; I know that there are good cops out there, but my opinion of police officers is very very low.

yea i hate cops. i'm also scared of them because they can basically do whatever they want and if they mess up, you're lucky to get a half assed apology.

Several years ago, two cops opened fire on a man having a psychotic episode who had gone to a Unitarian Universalist church to ask for sanctuary. Some of the witnesses said that he was threatening them, but the ones who didn't panic report that he absolutely wasn't. He was shot multiple times, and then the police refused to allow a licensed paramedic to treat him while he lay on the floor and bled to death.

They got paid vacations.

I hate them, too, and I've never had anything to do with them. Arrogant SOBs who usually just agitate people more.
Typical of all representatives of the much hated authorities.

I'm of the opinion that the police have a job that is both dangerous and very hard; it can require them to make split-second decisions in order to protect others and themselves, but also not to jump to conclusions even in the most stressful situations.

There are bad policemen just like there are bad people in every line of work, but I believe the vast majority of the police work hard and do their jobs well.

People in most lines of work don't carry guns around or have the power to question, detain, or assault anyone they choose for any reason they choose. Bad cops are way more dangerous to society than bad grocery clerks.

People in most lines of work don't carry guns around or have the power to question, detain, or assault anyone they choose for any reason they choose. Bad cops are way more dangerous to society than bad grocery clerks.

How dangerous to students and teachers could a ten-year-old boy have been? What happened to him was bad, but I was surprised and pleased to see him portrayed so sympathetically by the press.

That sounds like an overreaction to get the police, but I suppose that they thought they were the only ones able to restrain him (even though I would've phoned an ambulance as well for the seizures). I mean, seriously? I've had multiple panic attacks at school before - I was never handcuffed (but then again, I wasn't violent towards anyone). I was, however, difficult to calm down.

I'm surprised that no one has looked at this situation in context.

The boy was not handcuffed as a punishment. The boy was handcuffed as a way to stop him from harming himself and those around him after all other attempts to calm him failed.

Many parents demand that their autistic children be placed in regular classes, which is fine, however if children have outbursts, they need to be placed in classes that are equipped to deal with it, with staff that are properly trained and have the resources available to handle them.

If there was a failure here, it was not on the part of the police but either on the part of the parents for demanding the boy be placed in a class which could not properly accommodate his needs, or the school/government for placing him in a class that could not properly accommodate his needs.

If he were in one of these classes that are prepared to handle such children, and had such an outburst, he would have been restrained in either a lock hold of some type by one or two or even three individuals, or restrained using soft restraints in some manner.

The police did not act out of line, they acted in the only way they could.

In a classroom setting, very actually. Most parents would not appreciate being called because another classmate hurled a book at their child's head.