Here’s a start towards a solution the teacher and the police, like, I dunno, avoiding engagement of ridiculous levels of escalation response, maybe.

right?

I’m good. Thanks for asking.

My sister in law did the same... until a 9 year old that was larger than her left her shoulder non-working for the better part of 6 months.

Yeah. If you’re the parent, restrain away. How do you recommend restraining SOMEONE ELSE’S little shit without getting sued?

I think that’s a move to get a settlement from the school district before filing a lawsuit. If I was a lawyer advising her (which I’m not, thank god), I’d be telling her to play it up as much as possible to get an offer on the table.

We don’t have a system for dealing with kids that don’t act like kids. Restraint and removal was necessary. What’s the right way to do that?

Kids can do a lot of damage because (rightly) you are restricted on how you respond to the damage. When an adult starts roundhousing a cop, he can obviously get tazed, beaten, sat on, and shot. Mostly all you can do to a kid is give him a big hug.

I’m all for bashing police when they deserve it, but you’re not really comparing this to the next alternative. If a kid is out of control and not showing self-restraint, cuffs or something similar are a great way to de-escalate without harming the kid. Most of the other ways to get this kid under control would have…

I’m shocked at the comments here excusing the child’s shitty behavior (if the teacher’s report was true). People seem to think it’s OK for kids to act violent and abusive toward teachers and teachers are expected to know how to restraint them and control the classroom. LOL ok...

I’m okay with this. No student at any institution of learning should attack an adult. Fights between students and rough housing is one thing but with the details this sounds worse, so I am okay with everything from cuffing him to putting him in the back of a police car. Hopefully it is a lesson learned by the young…

Plus handcuffs may scare the kid straight. I cant imagine the ass whooping my family would have given me for hitting a teacher. Id prefer the cuffs and police protection.

Criminal charges might make it easier for the teacher to get compensation, whether warranted or not. Often back injuries can happen without telltale marks on the victim’s back.

It’s definitely an example of the importance of healthcare. What would be even nicer is if this family walked away without a huge bill for treatment.

Whatever you believe in — luck, Jesus, Jehovah, Allah, Great Goddess, or Other, He/She/They/It should be thanked over and over again.

I’m actually not surprised she didn’t because she is an ex. For every bit of a lack of credibility/fear of not being believed a woman has with telling her story about someone, it is even worse when it is an ex. It is SO easy and has been so pervasive in this culture to say, “Oh, she’s just bitter/jealous/psycho ex.”

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Sorry to fogey out, but this aspect of it being frictionlessly easy for people to have a public face and be exposed/expose themselves to the judgment and censure of millions when they have little life or work experience is one of the things I find problematic about the latter-day internet.

“but this count does not include the Pulse Nightclub shooting that killed 49 people in 2016, as it only calculates single-incident homicides.”

This is a dumb take. By their own admission anti-gay violence is actually down. You have to remove the largest instance of anti-gay violence from last year for the numbers to go up.

Where anti-gay violence only goes up when you remove the biggest instance of anti-gay violence from the previous year. It’s a ludicrous premise.