In Lakewood, CO. an 8 year old was pepper sprayed by local police when they were called to the school to handle the unruly boy.
It’s one of those incidents that makes you double take and say “LOL WUT?” and to be honest, after reading the article, I’m not sure who failed worse: the police or the kid.
I know what you’re thinking: The teachers should have been able to handle an unruly kid. However, the kid was throwing the a tantrum worthy of Dust Head Hall of Fame. According to reports, the kid was climbing on teacher carts, spitting and cursing at teachers, and ripped molding of the walls and attempted to stake anybody who came near him. When approached by the officers he brandished a sharpened stick and yelled “get away from me you fuckers!”
Still not convinced this kid is a whack job? How about if I told you this was the third time the police had been called to the school about his behavior?
The police fail because they had to use pepper spray on a kid, the kid fails because he’s a dust head without the PCP, he experts fail because they’re blaming TV and video game violence, the mom fails because she thinks the cops were being fascist, and the state of Colorado fails for containing all of the above.
Police Pepper Spray Unruly 8 Year Old At School from The Consumerist