Sudanese-American boy handcuffed for bringing homemade clock to school (theguardian.com)

let's all avoid the M word.

Is there any study to ascertain how these kind of incidents affect children psychologically, the effects of which manifest only years later? (Let's assume that this boy is a gifted engineer, and this incident leaves deep psychological scars not expressed in the next few years, but eventually leads him to take up activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens)

There's a photo of him in handcuffs, wearing a NASA t-shirt:

http://i.imgur.com/itmlhX8.jpg

Unless he's really resilient, we've lost him as a future STEM student.

This is why there are real ones.