Miami police arrest 7-year-old boy for punching teacher

A 7-year-old boy landed in cuffs last week in Miami after he pummeled his teacher with punches during a cafeteria rebuke, according to police and reports.

A police report claims the first-grader “attacked the teacher by repeatedly punching her on the back” after he was caught playing with his food. The teacher took the boy out of a cafeteria at the Coral Way K-8 Center to punish him, WSVN-TV reported. Both fell to the ground during the scuffle and the boy grabbed the teacher's hair.

Police were called to the school, and the boy was arrested.

An officer then walked the restrained boy into a local hospital after the Thursday incident for a psychiatric evaluation as the dismayed mother, Mercy Alvarez, followed, camera in hand.

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“This is police abuse; a whim of the officer, because my son was calm when they came to look for him,” Alvarez told El Nuevo Herald after the incident.

This is the second time in three months police were called to the school for the boy’s tantrums, police said. He reportedly kicked a teacher in November.

Alvarez’s son, who was not identified, appeared calm throughout the footage shared by the Miami Herald. He was later discharged from the hospital.

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He was taken to the hospital under the Florida Mental Health Act, which allows for involuntary exams.

Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Ian Moffett said in a statement that the agency’s response was standard to “prevent his erratic and violent behavior from bringing further harm to others or himself.”

The Herald reports the teacher is planning to press charges against the kid.

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