>> Video has emerged from 2018, showing cops in Key West handcuffing an 8-year-old boy.
The situation was sparked by the boy refusing to sit properly in his cafeteria bench.
So, you know it's serious.
So again, this incident happened in December of 2018.
But it's making news now, because the video has somehow been leaked.
Let's take a look.
>> Right here.
>> All right, again, I'm Officer Reed.
So, you know where you're going?
>> Okay.
>> Into jail.
>> So, you're going to jail.
So you need to stand up, and put your hands behind your back.
>> Well, first, what I want you to do, is put your hands right here, all right?
>> Yeah, that's it.
You can try him as an adult.
>> I don't think so either.
>> You can justify it.
>> Put your hands back there.
>> I'll text you.
>> Yeah.
>> Give me your name.
>> Fairley.
>> All right your hands are too small.
>> Okay, keep your hands on you like this, okay?
When you take it off, understand this is very serious, okay?
I hate that you put me in this position that I have to do this, okay, all right?
The thing about it is you made a mistake.
Now it's time to learn from and grow from it, right?
Not repeat the same mistake again.
>> No, except the cops didn't have to do it, but they chose to.
So, the Miami Herald reports that according to the arrest report from the December 14
2018 case, police were called to a school, Gerald Adams elementary after he punched the
teacher in the chest.
Officers arrested the child who was not named in the report because of his age.
On a felony battery charge, he was taken to juvenile detention.
So, he wasn't sitting properly on the cafeteria bench.
The teacher got frustrated and angry with him.
So, she asked him to come with her.
Probably, to go, I don't know where to go, probably to the principal's office or something.
And in the process of that happening, the kid allegedly, an 8-year-old who's 64 pounds,
punched the teacher.
And so, then he gets sent to it, they try to handcuff him but they couldn't handcuff
him, because he's so tiny that the handcuffs wouldn't fit.
They charged him that he's eight, he's eight.
My four year old niece, smacked me the other day because she's a kid, okay?
We're born as these uncivilized little animals, right?
We're supposed to grow, and mature, and learn as we go, not immediately get criminalized.
The second we do something wrong as children, this is so disgusting.
>> Our whole society is over militarized, over policed.
So, it's not just the cops in this case.
Look, if you're a teacher, this kid won't listen to you and you get frustrated, and
I get it.
And then he hits you and you get super frustrated, I get it.
And it's a tough job, don't call the cops, that's nuts.
When the cops come, they're gonna do cop things, like try to put handcuffs on an eight year
old.
And they're gonna send him to juvenile, which they did.
He's eight, he's eight, my kids around that age, I mean, I had nephews, etc.
Look, eight year old sometimes act out.
Sometimes they push, or shove, or punch etc.
If you've ever been punched by an eight year old, who cares?
For God's sake, it's not a real punch, not a felony battery, okay?
It's not a good thing you should call their parents in a should do the normal things you
do in a school.
But I mean, is that kid gonna have a record, what kind of vicinity it is?
>> Of course, that's it.
>> Yeah, and- >> Because it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
You tell an eight year old kid that he's no good, that he's a criminal.
You put them in a juvenile detention center, you charged him with a felony?
I mean, it's the worst possible way to handle this?
And by the way, Cenk, I mean, it's not like the teacher had to do anything extreme to
call the cops.
They have a cop on campus, this is part of the problem.
>> Yeah, that's easy, yeah.
>> If you have a cop on campus, you're gonna the use the cop for stupid reasons, and that's
a perfect example.
>> If you have a hammer everything looks like nails, and they've got hammers now on campuses.
So this go around, they would have arrested every single one of us when I was going to
school.
In elementary school, we used to play a game called killed a man with a ball, okay?
Somebody would hold on to the ball, and they'd run around the yard, and the whole school
pylon to them rip the ball away, and then that kid would run.
And we'd all pile on top of him, and a lot of crazy things happen.
Felony battery, felony battery arrest the entire elementary school, and put them into
into prison camps.
Well, this is insane man.
And so look, and one of the reports of the kid has special needs.
What are you doing?
You don't do that to any kid but a little lonely kid who's got issues.
And how traumatic is it for that?
If you did it to my kids who around that age, I know they would have been absolutely terrified.
And so, the problem in America is everything has to be dealt with extreme force.
And so, you bring cops in, they're gonna try to handcuff eight year old kids and ruin their
lives.
Don't do it, but we militarized everything, and we're now living under an occupation.
And this is what that occupation looks like.