Our Police State -Cuff 'em & Stuff 'em

Even if they are only 5 years old.

5-year-old boy handcuffed in school, taken to hospital for misbehaving

A 5-year-old boy was handcuffed and hauled off to a psych ward for misbehaving in kindergarten - but the tot's parents say NYPD school safety agents are the ones who need their heads examined.

"He's 5 years old. He was scared to death," Dennis Rivera's mother, Jasmina Vasquez, told the Daily News. "You cannot imagine what it's done to him."

Dennis - who suffers from speech problems, asthma and attention deficit disorder - never went back to class at Public School 81 in Queens after the traumatic incident.

His mom and a school source said Dennis threw a tantrum inside the Ridgewood school at 11 a.m. on Jan. 17.

This is insane, there is no situation where you can justify handcuffing a 5 year old, whatever happened to “protect and serve”. If an officer can not get a situation uncontrolled involving a 5 year old they are in the wrong line of work.