If a grown man is in my room, and I ask that man to leave. He better leave. Even Outrage would agree with that. So why should it be any different for a child? If I tell a child to leave my room, and that child refuses, then that child is the exact same size asshole as any man who won't leave my room when asked to leave. Disrespect is disrespect. Unless you are legally mentally incapable of knowing the difference between right and wrong, you are accountable... at any age.
This does not excuse the actions of the officer regarding that final "toss" but up until that time, that child was responsible for her actions.
I learned how to walk, according to dad my first real world spoken was ""helicopter", and then I learned etiquette and respect. If someone asks you to leave, you leave.
We learn these things very young in life. I find it interesting what Outrage, in regards to this story, refers to as "excessive". I'm not joking when I say parents back in my childhood day would respond, "You'll live" if that happened to their kid.
My brothers and I fought each other worse than that with gardening equipment on any given spring Sunday. If they could have mowed me down with the John Deere, you bet they would have. Ah sibling rivalry. I miss it.
It doesn't excuse excessive force...
But it also doesn't inexcuse a decisively incorrigible child who knows better.
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