Police Use Pepper Spray to Subdue 8-Year-Old at School

This kid's anti-social behavior just got re-enforced. He acted very badly and as a reward he got to be on television. No, they probably shouldn't have used pepper spray unless the kid had a knife or gun. It looks like Mom protects him and probably thinks that people just don't understand him and, of course, the kid knows it. I think Mom is the one who needs training and her kid needs help.

sounds like mother needs help also ! your kid is in a school for behavior problems,face the facts he got what he asked for ! kiddos to the officers. threatening people like that would get anyone sprayed !

The kid was correct when he stated that he kinda deserved it!

I currently work with children who have been abused and whom suffer from trauma and are placed in a group home. These children often have severe behavioral or cognitive problems. I am also trained extensively in not only crisis management and deescalation, but also have my degree in criminal justice. In addition I have training in law enforcement and police self defensive tactics and procedures. These officers should be given a written warning, go through mandatory re-training (child specific crisis), and have additional educational on-line training. I do not believe they should be terminated, however, what they did is unacceptable. If you, as a police officer, can not safely restrain a behavioral eight year old child, then you have no business in law enforcement. There are multiple techniques that are available to ensure a situation such as this has a safe and non-violent ending.

At least the kid is being somewhat responsible and owning up to his actions. Unlike his mother who makes excuses. The kid needs help but at least he knows he deserved to get sprayed. I hope this lesson will help to change him for the better.

I believe that all parties involved are to blame. The mother for not raising the child to obey authority, the teachers and staff for letting it go that far and the police for not finding a less evasive way to control the child after all he is 8 years old. Come on he does not look that big to me. Please fear in a child I understand but grown policemen no. I agree the child needs to be evaluated by professionals and if it is truly only happening at the school then that will come to light to. But to put it on national TV no way.

What Aidan needs is his ASS WHIPPING! And, his mother needs one as well. I can't imagine any of my children acting in such a manner. As a society we have become weak in our discipline and with our discipline. A weak parent produces weak children and usually causes additional expense in the form of state correctional institutions. Who would like to place a bet that Aidan ends up incarcerated one or more times in his life?

Besides washing the kids mouth out with soap the mother needs the same thing. An 8year old doesnt pick up that kind of gutter mouth except from those that are bring him up. Since no mention of a dad complaining then this foul mouth mother is doing the teaching. She need to see a shrink along with the kid otherwise this child will do harm, even kill, to someone who tells him he cant do something. Mother want to TALK. Problem this kid doesnt understand talk, he understands Action. He represents half the kids his age.

If they had just shot him then the mom could really blame everyone else for all her troubles. Kid needs a good a$$ beating from principal. That would fix a lot.

Pepper-spray the mom!

Does this strike you for a moment as an apt way to respond to the misadventures of a young boy? Or is age irrelevant when a flinging piece of wood with nails is in the periphery?

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This mother placing blame on others is this childs problem to begin with..WAKE UP LADY THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!! You should be on TV begging for help for your abusive, violent child....not using your lack of parenting skills to point out the mistakes of others....MIGHT AS WELL GET A CELL READY AT THE BIG HOUSE..since your concern for the emergency you are facing in raising this child is minimal!

Future serial killer...mama needs help

I think the child needs to be placed in a mental facility or juvenile detention and the mother needs to attend parenting classes before he is allowed to come home. It is because the mom takes up for him and makes excuses that he continues to misbehave. She should be so ashamed of how her son acted and apologized to the teachers and police for HER failure as a parent to teach her kid properly or seek help for him if he truly has a problem, which I doubt. The reason he doesn't act like that at home, I'm sure, is because his mom sits on her fat a$$ on the sofa watching TV and doesn't care enough to discipline him or enforce rules!

@ K.Bay ... as you've said, you are a "high school teacher", therefore you are not as knowledgable about grade school children as you are the older children. My son has ADHD and has anger problems along with it. All through grade school he (he is now in high school) he had problems controlling his temper and has even thrown a chair at someone who was tormenting him. He is now in high school and has a much better grasp on his temper and much better behaved. Now I am not saying that the mother of that boy isn't at fault by not admitting her son has a problem, she may even give him everything he wants at home, avoiding his bad behavior all together, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with her specifically. The solution to the bad behavior in our grade schools: Give our teachers the ability to properly punish bad behavior. "ooohhh detention, scary. ooohhh suspension from school, YES!!!!" Bring the paddle back into our schools. Because right now, our children have NOTHING to be afraid of if they do wrong. My son has told me that if he had something to be afraid of, he wouldn't have acted out in school or at home.

I am not outraged by this, but that was definetly an example of excessive force.

i worked 1-on-1 with a kid with ODD oppositional defiance disorder, he would have a tantrum when ask to do anything, recess, work, break, writing. didnt matter what it was. he had no idea he was having these tantrums, mom and dad also had no idea, but they also did not place demands on the child at home. before everyone says the mother is lame for not knowing, it is possible she really doesnt know whats wrong, as for the kid he seems to know what hes getting into. just my thoughts

Blame it on the mother. If she cannot control her kid's behavior, let other people handle the situation. Sorry, but this kid is such a bad example to other younger kids.

As the parent of a special needs person that had similar issues at about the same age, I have to clarify several things in all these posts! You are assuming an awful lot by saying it is strictly the parents fault! My son was out of control but I am a strict disciplinarian and had him in counselling and on medications for a long time! He was still committed 3 times between the ages of 7 and 9. My son had mental issues and yes this boy needs testing and NOW but do not think this is simply a matter of lax parenting!

As to her feeling the police need training, I agree, not that they were bad here, but they need to have special training to deal with special kids and if they have a school of this ilk in their area, they need to be taught how to properly deal with these kids. Or, in this case, the proper set of police needed to have been called, not just the regular ones. It needs to be set up in the calling system that ANY calls from that school or about that school need to go to the special unit. Why have a special squad for these kids if you are not going to use them?

Now, to prove my point, my son mentioned here is now almost 26. He graduated from a regular school and regular classes and OFF all medications and with a fairly decent GPA considering. He has never had trouble with drugs or the law and not because he didn't get caught, he just finally learned how to deal with things properly. So yes, these children can be taught and can lead honest and productive lives, if they are given the right tools and guidance. Either way, stop blaming the parents for EVERYTHING! Not saying that parents do not need to take a more active role with their children, but they are also not completely at fault every time either. We have gotten away from making the children responsible for their own actions as well.

It was obivious that this fat Monther has no clue to her sons problems.