Discussion for article #247112
“Right now I’m the bad guy,”…and given that video I think it’s going to stay that way. And for goodness sake can’t they come up with better lies? They thought the kid was an intruder? That’s not credible but so what? It doesn’t license you to beat him like that.
2 Likes
This tendency to post LEO at schools is just wrong. Schools are supposed to be a classical liberal learning environment, not an authoritarian prison camp. Just the other day I talked to my son about LEOs, and told him to stay away from them. If ever in a situation where they question you to stay silent unless a parent is present. I informed him that it’s legal, and expected for police to lie to you to build a case, whether you are innocent or not.
3 Likes
Seriously. I’ve had the same conversation with my child. But she’s half Hispanic and looks white. I can only imagine what the parent of black children must have to tell them, not only to protect them from the legal problems that come with LEOs on campus, but also the very real possibility of being put at risk of physical abuse or worse.
1 Like
Fix the training.
Fix training and put on UNpaid administrative leave. I am all for unions (I am assuming there is one for these guys and they are members), but if training is not adequate, maybe a financial penalty will motivate them to stop abusing students.
1 Like
I know this is just a crazy liberal idea, but around here the officers chosen for postings in schools (which is, yeah, a doubtful thing in the first place, but probably better than schools contracting random security guards) are generally vetted to not be the violent sadistic assh*les. Instead, the kind of people who are good at mediating and defusing situations.
(When I was a kid, my best friend’s dad was a truant officer, which was officially a police position. It meant that he got to a) not carry a gun and b) stand in various venues between hostile young gangs and help them work out their troubles peacefully. But I guess that kind of thing is out of style today.)
“Right now I’m the bad guy,” he said.
Funny how a pair of armed Law Enforcement Officers beating a 10th grader will “twist” the story that way…
1 Like
Or, you know, jail time…
“Not abusing students” isn’t something that should require special training. I have a daughter. I didn’t have to go to a class to learn how not to beat her…
And yet there are parents who do…