Now, perhaps the handcuffs weren’t necessary, but the youth’s family hopes to be enriched by $15 million dollars because of it, as they are threatening to sue the school district and the city. Before you say, “right on,” please remember that it will be the taxpayers who will have to pony up the money, and that is money that the school district won’t be able to use to educate the other 35,000 or so students in the district. $15 million for a few minutes of handcuffed detention - Seems a bit of an “overreaction” on the part of the clockmaker’s family, does it not? Not to mention the priceless benefit the youth got from the Presidents of the US and Sudan and the techno-nerds and the government of Qatar.
And then we have Hillary Clinton, another from the “don’t overreact" school of thought, who said a few days after the Paris attacks: “Let’s be clear. Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” So eager is she not to “overreact” that she ignores reality. Too bad common sense is not a commodity as easily traded as cattle futures.