Atrios’s reaction to this story sums up my feelings:

I really don’t understand why childhood behavior is being shoehorned into adult norms, and normal behavior issues are treated as criminal problems.

If stuff like this keeps up, parents today will interact with the police way more than my parents’ generation did. I mean, heck, if slapping a girl (with cooties) on the bottom brings in the cops… Sigh.

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