Six-year-old handcuffed, arrested for temper tantrum

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15. in the article I read, it was more than a tantrum

]According to the police report, kindergartner Salecia Johnson is accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture.

She was crying in the principal's office at Creekside Elementary before police arrived Friday. The report says the girl knocked over a shelf that injured the principal. It also says she was seen biting the door knob of the office and jumping on the paper shredder. And, it says, she attempted to break a glass frame above the shredder.

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"She has mood swings some days, which all of us had mood swings some days. I guess that was just one of her bad days that day," said Constance Ruff (her mother).

http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/article/178448/153/Milledgeville-Police-Handcuff-6-Year-Old-Girl?hpt=hp_t2

Teachers are used to dealing with kids' meltdowns; if this was bad enough that the police had to be called, I assume the restraints would have been for her own safety as well as for the safety of others. There's no accusation of cruelty or of her being roughed up--putting restraints on her may have been safer (legally and physically) than physically restraining her without the help of restraints.

It was a difficult situation--I've seen kids misbehave while I volunteered in my kids' school, but throwing furniture? that sounds scary as hell--and the teachers and police probably did the best they could.