Please Justify This Police Action For Me

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Having started this thread, Imma pop in and say that I never expected some of the responses (though maybe I should have done). That people would try to share blame for a child being maced in face IS an attempt at justifying macing a child in the face.

Kinda disheartening.

Boru

No. It is not a justification.

It is a recognition that parents need to teach their kids the realities of life -and their failure to do so makes them liable for that failure.

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Having started this thread, Imma pop in and say that I never expected some of the responses (though maybe I should have done). That people would try to share blame for a child being maced in face IS an attempt at justifying macing a child in the face.

Kinda disheartening.

Boru

No. It is not a justification.

It is a recognition that parents need to teach their kids the realities of life -and their failure to do so makes them liable for that failure.

Of course it’s a justification. Blame-shifting to the parents means that the cops had no other option but to pepper spray this child.

Is her family dynamic pretty well fucked? Clearly, or she wouldn’t wouldn’t have been removed from the home by the police (however temporarily). But at some point in this sad, sad situation, the cops made a conscious decision to pepper spray her - there was no point at which NOT spraying her was NOT an option. Her parents are almost certainly responsible for her emotional issues, but the blame for macing her in the face lies with the cops alone. 

The notion that a half dozen cops couldn’t manage a distraught, disturbed, traumatized pre-teen without resort to pepper spray beggars belief.

Boru