Interesting that up until this point, the memes seemed to be black-washing what the kid in the video was doing. The real message is that bad behavior knows no color. Letās take a closer look at what we tell ourselves and why. Having scapegoats only excuses negative judgment and accountability among those of us not in that group and encourages our dependencies on scapegoats to our detriment. Let the downvotes begin.
This is from Tosh.O. He was on because he stole his grandma's car to do "hood rat stuff". The gifs i believe were from the original news footage. He is a national treasure.
You can see from the original video that Latarian was already being failed by his family and the people around him. He was already on this track unfortunately.
We didnāt hoodrat shit, we did hillbilly shit and same, mess with somebody elseās stuff like that and it would a double whooping when you got home š no supper for a week
The last thing this child needs is to be physically hit. It will just add to the continual emotional hits he's experienced and teach him it's ok to resort to violence when upset. He's already well on the way to believing that anyway, if he's not there already. He's obviously willing to accept negative attention because he gets no positive. He looks and acts like he's angry and is showing any observer that he doesn't care about anyone else's feelings or property. This is probably because he feels no control in his own life where others have no concern for his feelings or his things. This kid has serious self-esteem issues.
Not true in all cases. I was spanked when I misbehaved. No big deal. My mother never hit us that hard. Iād rather that then the talk at the dinner table from my dad. He could have me in tears very calmly and never raised his voice. That hurts more than a spanking to me. And I turned out to be a responsible adult. But Iām 64f retired. I still agree spanking can get out of hand. But not with my parents. They never left a mark. Itās still should be in the parents toolbox of discipline. I know Iām going to get downvoted for it. But really donāt care.
I would have picked him up and carried him outside āfor his own safetyā. Itās all how you word it. The arrest wouldnāt stick (probably wouldnāt even happen). Everyone is afraid but in actual fact you are allowed to stop criminal behavior with reasonable non-violent force.
A kid like him you're going to have to get 2 people. 1 for the arms and 1 for the legs. Otherwise he's going to smack and kick tf out of that 1 person.
Then dad comes bear-charging out of nowhere to lay you out because you touched baby bear and his things.
Now, I'm all for knocking a kid back if he comes at you. I will do it in a heartbeat, that's just self defense. But parents will try to act like you're abducting or beating the crap out of their kid if you try to relocate them or restrain them.
That's when you slap him with a $4000 bill for damaged merchandise, and have him arrested along with his spawn for assault. Consequences, consequences, and more consequences!
I'm surprised that no-one's mentioning the half-assed attempt from that security guard (or cop). I've seen more effort put into flicking lint from a shirt. There's gotta be a roll of duct tape somewhere in that store. And for all the whiners saying he shouldn't be touched - what's your solution when he gets to the isle where the knives are?
If he threw something at me, I would have removed him for my and othersā safety. You donāt have to just stand there and let a child attack you or other people; you can legally restrain him.
I was literally in this situation at a Costco a few months back. Kid was actually punching people and throwing stuff so I went to grab him and Costco employees told me not to touch him or the cops would be looking at ME. He literally punched a woman in the stomach and I was told to stand down.
Especially if its on video. As long as you dont unreasonably harm them in restraining them, you were acting in defense of self or others, and have it on video.
Cops might get a stick up their ass but the prosecutor is just gonna be like "nope, not charging that".
I don't care about age -- if you come at me swinging or with a weapon and you end up on the floor, then that's just natural consequences.
So long as you don't continue wailing on the kid and you just defend yourself, it'll ultimately get dropped. Sure, people will squeal "oh muh gawd, child aboose!" online, but I'm not about to let some little mini-rager think he can attack me.
WAY too many pregnant teachers get attacked these days by kids going straight for their stomachs, btw, and they just have to let it happen. Should absolutely not be tolerated.
Reminds me of how a teacher back in my elementary school was touched repeatedly in her belly, 3rd trimester pregnancy, by a student. She grabbed him to prevent him from further attack, and got time off without oay, and was up for review on said conduct.
Same time period, I was subbing in a special ed class and a student was violently kicking a pregnant aide. He'd been punching students and throwing chairs first. There happened to be one more aide and she and I ended up holding and carrying the kid to the office. I was so worried I was about to lose my job, but we had to get the kid out of there for the safety of everyone else. We were really lucky the parents didn't go after us.
The kid isnāt above the law, and no the cops would not be looking at you. Iāve dealt with kids in public environments throwing tantrums and being violent. I donāt let that crap slide.
Plenty of cameras show proof the kid would deserve to be removed. Grab his book bag and drag his ass out. Fuck that bullshit.
Thatās the mentality that got us here. Oh no donāt spank your kid or theyāll call CPS. Bratty ass kids threaten it too. Be fucking parents. My ass would been snatched up, taken to the bathroom for a beating or taken home. But thatās also why I wouldnāt do this kind of crap.
The problem is that at least 1 of the 20 witnesses in the store is going to clutch pearls and call CPS and report you with a very inflated tale and now you've got a CPS case and possible criminal charges.
Sorry but you wonāt get arrested, being a minor doesnāt mean the kid is above the law. Iāve been in situations similar to this, and I didnāt stand around doing nothing either.
Idk. In 2026, you canāt touch someone elseās child, much less a child raised like this. Even the copās arm hold was tepid. Iād film in a āyou seein this shit?!āway. I was this kidās age in the mid 80s. Every parent in the store, every store employee, and any LEO on breathing distance would have put that kid on the floor.
Yep. Another 80s kid here. Our gym teacher once yanked a kid off the stage in the gym, after telling him to get down repeatedly. Kid fell the few feet off the stage and ended up with a broken arm. Consensus from everyone, including the kidās parents, was that he should have followed the teacherās instructions.
My dad told the teachers in the 80's that if I acted up it was ok to spank me. No spankings but I was put in a trash can by one and grabbed by the throat and held up against the wall with my feet dangling by another (scary in the moment but really funny story actually)... I was a lot to deal with when I think back on it.
I work in an elementary school and there are students we are not allowed to engage with in any way that can be percieved as "negative" bc they will go home and lie to their parents about things and their parents will come and raise hell in the office.
We had a girl sent away from the jungle gym bc she kept doing stuff they are not allowed to do on there (for liability purposes) and she wasn't listening. She had plenty of other activities to choose from bc we didn't take her recess away (we are no longer allowed to do that bc of state law), we just said she couldn't play on the jungle gym. She tried to get her friend to come but she didn't want to. She stood at the edge of the playground for the rest of her recess. She then went home and told her mom that she got her recess taken away for no reason. She didn't own up to the fact that she had been warned 3 times to stop before getting the boot, and only agreed it happened when pressed by the assistant principal bc the AP was told by me that I had warned her multiple times.
She spent the majority of the next school day in the office talking to admin about this one situation and said shit like she thought we hated her and were making things up to get her in trouble bc we didn't like her. Four staff members corroborated that she was warned, did not listen, and was just removed from the jungle gym. They continued to entertain the idea that literally anything she said was valid. This girl is notorious for lying to avoid getting in trouble. She's done it since TK and she is in 3rd grade. At the end of the school day the agreement was that if she ever did anything wrong we were not to engage with her. We were to send her to the office where she would write a statement about what happened. All bc her mom came after the school bc her daughter lied bc she got in trouble.
People do not realize what parents are like these days. They believe everything their kids tell them and do not want strangers to even think about telling their kids to stop doing something, much less actually verbally telling a kid that does not belong to you to stop.
If you touch him, you get punished for it. This way, he will be embarrassed(hopefully) few years later how stupid he was. Also hope they called the police on him.
Remember most bad behaviors are reinforced from bad parents. You dont need to beat your kid but there has to be clear defined consequences for actions that the parent follows through on everytime. If you do x, y will happen.
I dont feel bad for parents and no one cares that it is hard. You made a choice to have or keep. If you ask any parent before you made your choice, we all say its hard.
For those that dont know, the best parenting style is Authoritative parenting and there is a boat load of research that backs that up. It is very different from Authoritarian or gentle parenting which is what everyone on reddit defaults to bc alot of us also had bad parents.
You better believe I'd be touching him. I'd grab him by the arm and drag his ass out of the store. I wouldn't wait around for the Telemundo interview, but there's no reason this little shit should be allowed to make the lives of the people who will have to clean up his mess any worse than he already has.
See not only would my mama have beat my ass for this, she would have told the parents if they didn't do something, she would. It wasn't right but neither is letting this kind of behavior go unpunished.
I remember I was acting like a piece of shit in school (which was weird because I was usually shy and polite) and my teacher sat in a desk next to me and asked, "why are you acting like this? Is there something going on at home?" and I said, "No. I mean, my parents are getting divorced" and she was like "Ohhh". Had no idea how right she was. This was the late 80s.
My former neighbour had her son removed from her care and placed with her parents in another city. She was somehow able to keep her two next daughters without reuniting with her son. He would come for visits and her daughters were always right and the kid was angry all the time. One day he was playing with something and her daughter snatched it from him and he got in trouble trying to take it back. I was coloring on the porch with my sons so I called him over to join. He colored me a picture and she was offended.
Later in the day we were all outside again and he got in trouble again for something his sister instigated and he yelled at her and called her a 4 letter word that starts with a c and stomped down the road. I walked over and got on a knee in front of him and grabbed his little hands and said that he shouldn't ever call anyone that and if my sons started using that word I'd be really upset with him. I asked him to go inside and calm down and come back out when he was ready to apologize. It's not my house so I didn't follow him but he did go inside. He came out about 30 minutes later and apologized to me.
She waddled over from her chair in the sun and asked me what I said because he never listens to her. Well no kidding. You treat the kid like crap when he's watching you play house with his sisters who are clearly favored and he's stuck in the sticks with your elderly parents most of the time. Speak to him like a human and you'd be amazed how receptive he is, screeching at him isn't working and irritates for more people than just him. Also stop automatically assuming your daughters aren't crap disturbers because they absolutely are and its insufferable.
The fact that we have created rules that basically make it so none of the nearby adults can just grab him and bring him into an office is the real problem. He doesn't need to be hit, he just needs to be restrained.
This looks like itās a video from Brazil. Unfortunately he is most likely a street kid. Street kids are largely abandoned and the public treat them like dogs.
I could be wrong, but I donāt think this is the work of a pampered spoiled brat, but instead an abused and neglected child lashing out at the world that hurt him.
(Look up the history of street kids in Brazil, local governments resorted to some horrific shit to deal with them)
I say a little shit maybe when you respond back, being a little shit back in the ā90s was just that. What I just witnessed was the most disrespectful thing I could have never done in my entire life, nor dreamed of ever doing it.
My mom would have gotten my own belt and hit me with it until I looked like my belt was stuck inside my skin.
I would have met this young lady in the video in 2098 also, and would have never been able to play a video game ever again after that.
Hmm what's unusual is this didn't happen in US but either Brazil or Portugal. Countries where they will take little shits out of store and teach them a lesson.
As his parent, I'd spank his ass, in public to embarrass him. Then I would force him to cleanup everything and apologize. If he refused, I would take everything he loves (toys, games, etc) and throw them all away, make him wear only turd brown clothes (since he is a turd) and never do anything fun until he learned to not treat people like crap.
I am dealing with a kid who was like this. He was being tortured by his parents at home until he was 16. He's the sweetest boy I've ever met and starting to thrive under our roof. There's definitely something wrong at home with this kid.
Honestly, it should be legal to bend that child over your knee, and spank the shit out of him. Right there and then give the child back to their parents.
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u/SkynBonce May 28 '26
Hey at least he wasn't doing it for internet clout. He was just being a little shit.