It appears to me that 1) the video was edited and 2) there must be a serious history with this child already. The school just doesn’t call the police unless something serious is going on.

I would want to see the footage without the reaction before making any call myself. I’ve been in this situation as school staff and I can tell you that it always sounds worse than it looks. In this case, we don’t know why the police were called; it is very possible the student was putting herself and others in the building in danger. Schools try not to call the police but sometimes it’s the safest option for everyone involved. Unless she had a weapon, that student is probably back in class with a plan in place to help her work on self control so this doesn’t happen again.

I can't see the video either, but a few things that might be worth noting.

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1. We don't know the history of this girl, and what she's done in the past. As a disabled person yourself, you should know that if you chose to, you could deal out some damage just like anyone else, so perhaps she's gotten into fights before.
2. We don't know how she was reacting during the officer's attempting to subdue her, but it didn't sound like she was very compliant to me.
3. She might have been playing the victim card for attention seeking reasons.

Now, that said, yes, it did seem as though the officer was being unnecessarily aggressive. When the principal or whomever else was there was telling him that he need not use such excessive force, that should have been a cue to get him to calm down. I think he could stand to go in for some retraining, but I'm not convinced he's a terrible person.

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I'm also left wondering how this footage was obtained. It had exceptionally clear audio, but I didn't hear things close up as if it were a body cam, and I don't even know if they capture audio. If it was coming from the officer's body cam, I'd expect to hear more rustling of fabric and so on, but I didn't. The perspective seemed off so I don't believe the footage came from him. SO, how was it obtained? It could be a compilation of footage from various sources, such as security cameras, cell phones, etc.

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What strikes me about the video is that it could have been edited together to show a scene that wasn't exactly as it happened. The media are sensationalists, they only care about what sells, and the stories that do that are the ones that pull at your heart strings. So, it's definitely within the realm of possibility that the story was spun a bit differently to how it actually played out.