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Actually a straight jacket would be better, but it takes two or three people to put a maniac in one. The only defence that teachers and sudents have, if they are lucky, is a police officer stationed at their school. Police generally don't have straight jackets nor do they have the help to subdue a person to install them in one. I would say that the office had two choices, get into a fight with an 8 year old and put up with the dammage to the boy and to the other people around the school (and put up with the crap that the local media would come up with about a grown person fighting with a child) or put restraints on the brat. The officer used good judgement and defused the situation by putting the little darling in a conditon that he could do no one else dammage.

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I would say that the office had two choices, get into a fight with an 8 year old and put up with the dammage to the boy and to the other people around the school (and put up with the crap that the local media would come up with about a grown person fighting with a child) or put restraints on the brat.

Well I see your problem stems from ignorance.

I have worked with autistic children for twenty-three years. There are very simple and painless restraining holds that can prevent a child (especially one as young as eight) from harming himself or others.

Only a totally incompetent moron would need to handcuff an eight year old. It is barbaric.