Aidan Elliott admits that he was out of control. When police entered his second-grade classroom, Aidan, an 8-year-old Colorado boy, was in the midst of a violent tantrum, wielding a sharp piece of molding he had ripped off the wall and used to threaten his teachers' lives. His mother, however, says there's no excuse for what happened next. Police, seeking to diffuse the situation, sprayed Aidan with pepper spray, twice. "He's a child. There were two grown police officers and they didn't even try to talk to him," Aidan's mom, Mandy Elliott,Said in an interview "You talk to him and you find out what it is that's bothering him as well. You don't just walk in, ask him to stop and then spray."
