Posted on 04/28/2014 5:30:59 AM PDT by Domandred
All too often we are reminded of the ever-encroaching police state by reading about incidents happening all over the country. It hits you a little differently when you hear about a child being abused and detained by your own local police department.
This was the reality for me today when I heard that local 17-year old, Joseph Turner was aggressively detained by the Boise Police Department in his own school, Frank Church High School.
What's even more astounding is that as the incident was happening, school officials took it upon themselves to confiscate the phones of students who were recording the incident. Information on Idaho Code in regards to filming police can be found here.
According to multiple eye-witness accounts, School Resource Officer Kane and School Security Officer Espinoza did indeed use excessive force.
Friend to Turner and eyewitness Rainy Sargent said, "I did not witness much of the fight, but what I did see was horrific. Both the SRO and the security guard were using excessive force. I saw them slam his head into a wall, pull his hair, elbow, and knee him. Joe is a great kid. He keeps to himself most of them time, but he's a total sweetheart. I'm horrified this happened to him of all people."
When further asked on the background of the situation, Sargent stated, "I was talking to him this morning and he was telling me a lot has been going on in his life lately. He had been kicked out of his house last night, and had to sleep in an alley. He got kicked out of class because he had been sleeping."
Carsten, a student at the school, whose last name has been removed for privacy reasons, described the incident in a Facebook post:
"An office aid told me it was because he was sitting in the hallway with his legs out, and the teachers didn't like having to step over his legs so they sent him to the office, then he got an attitude and it pretty much went from there.”
Career Counselor Wibble can be seen clearly trying to prevent anyone from filming the incident in the video.
We have been unable to obtain any other video footage at this time. We have been told by students that some people have yet to have their phones returned by faculty. Some students even complained that their phones were returned in inoperable condition.
No contact has been made with Turner by Awakened Citizen or any of his friends.
We are still learning more details about the incident and will provide them to you as they come in. It is unclear at this time whether Turner swung on the SRO, but based on eye-witness accounts, it is clear he presented no danger to faculty or any of his classmates. What is also very clear is that NO child should be subject to this kind of violent abuse, especially by those entrusted to protect him.
As you continue to read stories about police violence in other areas, don't wait to be reminded like I was that it CAN happen in your area. Chances are, it IS happening. As friend and classmate Derek Tucker stated, "I just don't wanna see this kid get assault on a officer."
If you would like to contact Boise Police Department with any questions regarding this incident, this can be done so here: 208-377-6790
Another source says at least a dozen police responded, locked down the building and searched students as they left.
To be fair, from the video at the source it does look as if the student was resisting.
these clowns keep doing this. Time after time the courts have ruled its LEGAL for citizens to record the police. I hope they sue the crap out of the individual cops and the police department.
So…the object here is to have students accept excessive force by the police, right?
There should be a 10 year waiting period before ex-military personal can be hired by civilian police forces. Contrary to their training, this is not Iraq or Afghanistan, and this thuggish behavior has to stop.
Cops are ENEMIES of the American People.
Who are you going to believe; the government or your lying eyes?
The Supreme Court ruled that ones rights do not end at the schoolhouse doors. We need to make sure our children understand this. They are growing into the compliant citizens this administration wants.
Until the cops that are illegally inhibiting recording of their official activities are personally held accountable, this will not stop.
:: from the video at the source it does look as if the student was resisting. ::
But then these. Godless socialists can’t defend their position of “instinctual/evolutionary fight-or-flight” as a natural response, either.
Courts have also ruled that the school setting is differentiated from other locations as to the freedom allowed to the students. A suit might not be the slam-dunk you believe it to be.
Why. To teach the students the true nature of life in these United States.
Tell me about it. I got detained unlawfully and then arrested. Had to hire a “civil liberties” lawyer....
We need to put cameras in all areas of public schools, except the bathrooms and locker rooms. These cameras should be accessible to all parents 24/7 via their computer or smart phone. This is already being done at many private schools.
I guess the key is for the public to use small, hidden cameras that the jack boots can’t see or confiscate.
Camera phones are too obvious.
The headline should have been::
Local Police ROBBED a group of Students at GUNPOINT.
Great idea, but it'll never happen.
To be fair, maybe he should have resisted. Maybe the students should have kicked the crap out of the thugs in blue and their school employee enablers. Maybe we ought to let the dog shooting doughnut eaters know that they need to decide whose side they are on. BTW, it isn’t a dangerous profession - not even in the top ten. I don’t want to hear about their just wanting to go home at night.
My school district was having trouble with discipline on the busses, so they installed video cameras. The idea was when little Johnny misbehaved, we’d show his parents proof of his deeds. But it didn’t work out that way. Yes, you can show little Johnny’s parents video of LJ, but you can’t show them the faces of any of the other kids—right to privacy and all of that.
Students, not being an arm of the government are not constrained by this rule—they can video each other as much as they want.
We were also told that if we ever took a kid’s phone, we were to have them turn it off first. Under no circumstances were we or any school official to look at what was on their phone. Reason—if there was anything that could be considered child pornography, we’d be an adult in possession of kiddie porn. Once again, perfectly legal for them (if they’re under 18), big trouble for us.
I really don’t think schools—or much of society—have come to grips with the reality of this technology.
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