As far as the video goes, the kid was asked repeatedly to stop kicking staff in the mail room. The staff can be seen defending themselves with what I can only call, pillow shields.

They take great measures not to touch the child, and to back him away from sensitive equipment.

The officer sees this for about 3-4 minutes, and puts the kid in handcuffs until the parents arrive. Note the officer did not arrest the kid, or leave him until that event.

Only thing I could disagree with is the position he had the kids arm in while in handcuffs, but all things considered, the cop took it kind of smoothly. They tried reasoning with the kid multiple times, even after he was in handcuffs.

I mean this just seems like a great example of how both school and police need to have mental health specialists accompany them. Like the school was given instructions, those instructions were followed in a subpar manner (based on the dialogue from the video), and everyone failed to de-escalate. But I don’t blame the teachers or the cop. They did the best they could, given their lack of understanding of how to handle a child like this. Proper trained professionals should have been involved. This is a huge failure of our education and policing systems

See, this how how you end up with a mass shooting at the police headquarters. Cops keep pulling this shit, and someone is going to realize that there’s a whole bunch of them in one place that a halfway decent rifleman can pick off from a distance, fade back after a few while they scramble, and come back in a few weeks to do it again.

Never underestimate the determination of a pissed off parent.

I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened tbh.