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America is a pretty large country with big cultural differences between different regions. I'd imagine the more authoritarian or puritanical subcultures might be okay with it (who probably are the same people that say that adults who resist cops had it coming when they get shot / killed unnecessarily).

I don't think I know anybody personally (right or left leaning) who would think that it's acceptable to handcuff children like this. I would hope that most people I associate with would think it unacceptable.

At the same time, this kind of thing is so common that I think people have been numbed to it. What maybe could be said is that in general, Americans don't protest this kind of thing as often as they should.




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