girl obviously has issues, this reflects on the parents not her.

The school looks like an "alternate" school for kids who have been removed from thier local district:

From their site: "The ultimate objective is to assist students in the successful return to their geographical school or to the program which is the least restrictive environment for each student."

Sounds like it's not news to the school system that she has issues.

@Kels: Already blaming the parents...without knowing anything about them or the student. The name of the school in the article included the word "Exceptional;" clearly this girl has behavioral/developmental or some other type of disability to be labeled as "exceptional" since it's probably not a school for the gifted. I'm annoyed that this important aspect of the situation is not at all covered in the article. And I'm annoyed at how quickly an uninformed reader can make such a negative snap judgment on the likely heartbroken parents of such a challenging child.

Parents are supposed to raise a child to be a decent human being. Apparently they lack the skills to do so. Consequences for her actions are in order here, and for you people that only want time-out, the girl gets a little time-out in jail. Toughen up people and raise your kids right. By the way I hardly ever had to spank my four children and they grew up to be decent, kind and successful citizens.

I'm sure we're all paying for her social security check each month.

It's nice to see actual consequences for really bad behavior! Nice job to the sheriff's dept., well done. Sounds like it was handled very professionally.

When Winston Churchill was about that age, he was referred to as a monster by his own parents and most of his teachers. During one tantrum, he pulled books off of a shelf in the school library, ripped some to pieces, stomped and kicked at an instructor, and broke the headmaster's cane. This behavior continued for a number of years and in high school he was disciplined for a breaking and entering incident. Today, many in the psychiatric community say he displayed ADHD behaviors.

Luckily for Churchill and the world at large, he grew up more than a century ago in England, where bad bahavior by children was treated as such, No one was drugged and removed to schools for only other badly behaved children where such behavior was reinforced. And of course, children of 9 fall below the age of criminal responsibility throughout the world and cannot be charged with felonies, let alone have their faces published on the evening news and the internet, along with their names, in order to ensure that they will never be able to successfully get past their childhood transgressions. Only America permits children under 10 to be charged with crimes - except for Iran perhaps.

The comments on the web that I have read are sickening. Racist. Brutal. Mean spirited and of a nature that spells out the cruelty of the American people. Children of 9 should never be handcuffed, shackled, finger printed and labled as felons before they know what a felony is. Children of 9 who throw rocks are not criminals. Children of 9 who throw chairs (Churchill did this as well) are not criminals. Children of 9 who use foul language and "threaten" big bad police officers are not criminals unless the police choose to call these children such. Children of 9 lack the capacity to commit a felony - they do not fully understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of their actions.

The police grossly overreacted and showed a horrid lack of understanding in handling small children. They escalated a bad situation. Arresting a child is stupid - and if the intention was to get her "help" then charging her with felonies was overkill. But posting her picture on the net? It's about as humane as taking a heated branding iron to her face.

She's a child. Today she has entered America's notorious school to prison pipeline where she will join legions of other children, especially in Florida, as the system prepares them for a life in the underclass and quite probably prison. She will be involuntarily drugged and labled and kept in a school for bad kids. She will have a felony record online that will dog her every move. She now has no hope and no future. Thanks Florida. And A special big wet kiss to the mainstream media hacks who printed her name and picture and took the bait from these poor excuses for law enforcement officers.

Hope he "body-slammed " the little "dweeb" befor he cuffed her.