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04-07-2011, 09:18 AM
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 I’m not amused Poster Rank:84 Female Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 18,289 Mentioned: 5 Post(s) Quoted: 1328 Post(s)
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Colorado Police Pepper Spray Misbehaving 8yr. Old Boy.
Eight-year-old Aidan Elliott had thrown a TV and chairs at his Colorado elementary school and was trying to use a cart to bust through a door to an office where teachers and other students fled for safety. No one could calm the boy, not even the staff in a program for children with behavior problems like him. So they called police, who had intervened with Aidan twice before. Police found him with a foot-long piece of wood trim with a knife-like point in one hand and a cardboard box in the other. "Come get me, f-----," he said. When they couldn't calm him down, one squirted Aidan with pepper spray. He blocked it with the cardboard box. A second squirt hit the youngster in the side of the head, and down he went, according to an account of the Feb. 22 standoff in a police report first obtained by KUSA-TV. Aidan and his mother went on national talk shows on Wednesday to say using pepper spray on an unruly 8-year-old was too much. Police and officials at Glennon Heights Elementary in Lakewood, Colo., say it could've been worse. "Had the officers chosen to be hands-on with him, the potential for him getting some type of injury and, maybe even officers, would have been much higher," police spokesman Steve Davis said. "It was the best choice made," he said. Aidan started acting up while on the bus to school, the police report said. He began screaming and then continued after breakfast while throwing chairs at his teachers. "He was being very aggressive, very violent," said Melissa Reeves, the school district spokeswoman. There were eight students with Aidan in the classroom, Reeves said, and teachers removed them after he became violent. They barricaded themselves in an office, as he tried to bust in, Davis said. Aidan was swearing and shouting expletives at his teachers and threatening them, Davis said. He taunted police when they arrived. Here is the link to the interview with Aiden and his mother. Wasn't able to imbed. Sorry. Worth watching though. [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTFO-xZ7pyc"]YouTube - Pepper Sprayed 8-Year-Old Boy Speaks Out on 'GMA' (04.06.11)[/nomedia] |
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04-07-2011, 10:38 AM
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Re: Colorado Police Pepper Spray Misbehaving 8yr. Old Boy.
I am just confused as to how the mother says there are not behavior problems at home. There has to be something. Then again the boy said she isn't home all the time. He seemed to show little remorse too. |
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04-07-2011, 10:39 AM
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Re: Colorado Police Pepper Spray Misbehaving 8yr. Old Boy.
"A second squirt hit the youngster in the side of the head, and down he went"  Well, perhaps that will teach the little fucker a lesson, no? Yeppers, probably how to run faster.  |
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04-07-2011, 10:50 AM
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Re: Colorado Police Pepper Spray Misbehaving 8yr. Old Boy.
They do. I predict an adolescence filled with juvenile corrections visits, teen years filled with the same, and unless his mom gets the kid some serious help, she's going to love him and protect him right into prison. He's Army material for sure. Just needs to get his shit together a lil bit. |
