Discussion for article #242203
Between the two of them, I’d say the cop did way more to “disturb the school” (if that really is something that a person can be charged with).
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“But we need to have armed officers in every school so our children will be safe!”
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I hope he feels like a REAL man for throwing a high school girl in a desk to the floor and roughing her up. What a complete loser.
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OK…this is outrageous, it is also disturbing how other students just sat there like this is an everyday occurrence…WTH
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I was shocked that the teacher just stood there and didn’t try to intervene. But I just read at DKos that he’s the one who requested the officer because the girl wasn’t “participating” in the class. He had supposedly already asked her to leave, and she refused. He wasn’t going to step in now.
I’m really glad the sheriff did this. That police officer has already been in trouble for excessive use of force. He’s got “issues” and should not be in a position of authority. Rather, he needs someone in authority to show him the error of his ways.
Edit: I see it had to do with her refusal to put her phone away, according to this article. Still, that didn’t justify her treatment by the cop.
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How long before cameras are not allowed in schools?
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And it’s a shame the local authorities are too compromised to do the right thing and have to pass the buck to the Feds. This is just one reason why minorities favor federal oversight over state and local affairs and anyone should look closely at people who clamor for “states’ rights.”
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“charged with disturbing schools”
One of the single most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard of and, frankly, I have no problem calling it a fucked up attempt to generate arrest records and convictions for inner city minority kids.
At least the sheriff did the right thing. Good on him.
Edit: And you know what? Of course she didn’t get up out of her fucking desk. She was about to be arrested for disturbing the classroom…something kids do all the fucking time. I was all about that shit…constantly getting thrown out of class and told to go to the principal’s office for running commentary or goofing around and failing to keep my wise-ass yap shut haha. When did that turn into something actually criminal? CRIMINAL??? And of course inner city classrooms are far more likely to have that kind of behavioral issue and the fuckers who enacted shit like this know that very well. I have no doubt a bunch of huffity-puffity wealthy white poofters in the state legislature frothed at the mouth and turned the whole thing upside down, ranting about “cracking down on this behavior” and “returning order to the inner city classrooms” as if the threat of absurd criminal charges for disruptive behavior would magically achieve that goal rather than simply result in a congo line of broken-home low-income minority kids with understandable behavioral issues winding up saddled with arrest records and criminal charges. Mission accomplished!
I sincerely hope DOJ makes findings that the criminal statute raises serious constitutional issues, because it’s a fucking outrage.
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And we all know it 3 seconds later. Cops are going to be sued out of existence at this rate, and it really cannot happen soon enough.
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And by cops, you mean tax payers.
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Exactly.
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I’m sure they were terrified. I would have been.
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It’s not so much that the cop “dragged” her around, though that was bad enough, it’s that he threw her across the room.
I hope to hell he’s charges with assault.
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I’m surprised they didn’t “pull a Carson” and rush the attacker.
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Look at the build on the officer.
Roid rage anyone?
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Thing is, if he just needed to get her out of the class, he could have easily grabbed the front of the desk and pulled it out with her in it. He opted instead to take the difficult and abusive path. I suspect choosing a more “difficult” method was not his thought, he was more into the “abusive” aspect of utilizing that method.
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Correct, he easily could have grabbed the front of the desk and pulled it out into the hallway with her in it. No violence or abuse, but task accomplished.
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Exactly what I thought, though as well muscled as he is he could have easily lifted the desk off the floor and carried her out.
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The way he tipped her desk over he could easily have bounced her head off the floor and given her a concussion…it’s just inexcusable reckless and wanton disregard for her safety and well-being.
“To protect and to serve.” Show me where that was in the video and I’ll give you my life’s savings.
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