So the back story on this goes like this:
An eight-year old boy named Aidan was pepper sprayed by Lakewood, Colorado police after acting up in a classroom.
Teachers had barricaded themselves in after the second-grader threw a violent temper tantrum.
Aidan, whose last name was not revealed to protect his privacy, had
torn a piece of wooden trim off the walls and was wielding it like a
weapon, according to a police report filed about the incident at Glennon
Heights Elementary on February 22.
He also threw a television and was threatening to kill the teachers.
When police arrived, a spokesman said, they felt they had no option but
use use the pepper spray on him.
Aidan told local 9 News, ‘It burned my eyes, and I couldn’t see.’
He was reportedly treated for minor skin irritation.
This was the third time police had been called after Aidan’s temper
tantrums, although his mother, Mandy, is criticizing the police for what
she considers excessive force, and for treating her young son ‘like a
common criminal.’
According to the police report, Aidan ‘was climbing the cart and
spitting at teachers. He also broke wood trim off the walls and was
trying to stab teachers with it.’
‘I wanted to make something sharp if they came out because I was so
mad at them," Aidan said. ‘I was going to try to whack them with it.’
After he refused to obey police, they sprayed him with pepper spray two times. He dropped the stick, and they handcuffed him.
Lakewood police are defending their actions. Aidan was placed on a
‘mental health hold’ and was transferred to a school for children with
behavioral issues.
Aidan’s mother told 9 News that her son had been seeing a doctor, but
has not been diagnosed with mental problems and is not on medication.
‘I have some anger things,’ the child admitted. ‘I don’t think they’re ever going to go away.’
Now, there is a HUGE difference between a TEMPER
TANTRUM and VIOLENT OUTBURST... This kid has serious issues and it's
only going to get worse the bigger and stronger he get. Other than the strength thing, dealing with a
violent 2nd grader is really not too different than dealing with a
"Travis the chimp" scenario.... The police had to shoot and kill Travis
simply because of his immense strength. If Travis wanted to, he had the
strength to rip off a limb or tear someones head clean from their
shoulders. Aidan was not a chimp. Just a different kind of animal all together, so the force used was NOT excessive, but appropriate for what the situation called for. The kid was still a threat. Not a raging full grown male chimp, but a threat none the less. The cop didn't shoot and kill the raging little animal. They pepper sprayed him. Shooting him would have been "excessive force". No teacher OR cop should
have to get stabbed because the threat they were dealing with was a
child.
Shame
on the mom for not recognizing that her child HAS MAJOR ISSUES! A
temper tantrum is one thing, but this kid was threatening to KILL
PEOPLE. HELLLLOOOOOOOO! That's not normal! ESPECIALLY when it was NOT an isolated incident! Really? Then for this woman to go on TV or to the
papers and claim that it was excessive force? The stupid cow needs to go
home, shut the fuck up and learn how to deal with her kid and stop
making it everyone else's problem in dealing with her little monster. He
may have been enrolled in a school for kids with "emotional behavioral
issues", but the school shouldn't have to deal with violent attacks.
Neither should police regardless of whether their "attacker" was 8 or
108.
NO COP in their right mind puts on the vest
thinking, "You know what? I'm gonna pepper spray me an 8 year old kid
today!" They don't know what their shift
is going to bring. They strap on the vest saying, "Nope... This isn't
going to be the day... The vest feels good... I'm going home when my
shift is done." The REAL issue here is that Mandy Elliot needs to do
something other than make excuses for her son and learn how to deal. If
the stupid cow had time to go touring around doing interviews about how
the cops were so wrong, she had time to learn about how to deal with an
emotionally disturbed 8 year old who will someday become an emotionally
disturbed 10 or 15 or 20 year old. Then what? I wonder how she would
have dealt if the cop HADN'T used the pepper spray and the kid charged
and got in a "lucky stab" and killed the cop instead. Do you really
think she'd be touring around on different "news shows" and talk shows
apologizing to the cop's family?
Lady! Get a life and control that little shit of yours! At this rate he's looking at a life long career as a yet another sociopathic lunatic that you are unleashing onto the world (as if we didn't have enough of those...) and making that monster yet another problem for society (because the world needs more?)
