Posted on 09/03/2016 9:02:27 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A 17-year-old black teenager was caught on tape assaulting a 5-year-old white girl while riding on a school bus in South Carolina.
The teen, Tavon Walters, was on probation at the time of the assault. It's not clear why he was allowed to ride the bus with a 5-year-old that's 12 years his junior. Nonetheless, the school's superintendent Phyllis Schwarting defended Tavon's actions saying: "The behavior on the bus was not any more abnormal than most buses."
From Global News:
A five-year-old girl from South Carolina is now scared to ride the school bus after a 17-year-old boy allegedly hit her in the face, said the child’s father.
Terry Peters, the father of five-year-old Jasmine, told NBC affiliate WAGT News, that when he picked up his daughter from the school bus last week he noticed a mark on her face.
“People came out and they began to state to me that she got slapped on the school bus,” said Peters to WAGT. “I’m very upset, I’m mad.”
Surveillance video from the bus appears to show the teen reaching over a school bus seat and using another student’s hand to hit Jasmine on the right side of her face.
“He had reached over that seat and he was telling another girl that ‘if you don’t hit her then I’m going to hit her for you,’” explained Peters.
Author Colin Flaherty highlighted the video on his YouTube channel:
There was a question of whether Tavon caused the girl's visible injuries as they say the marks were on the opposite side of her face. Police have since said they believe the photo may have been flipped.
Bamberg District superintendent Phyllis Schwarting is going all in trying to claim the girl must have got the hand print shaped mark from somewhere else:
Liz Owens: "This kid has been in trouble at school before no secret, they're saying he's on probation, why is it that someone who has a history like that allowed to ride the bus, especially with young students?"
Phyllis Schwarting: "Well, he had not had any bus incidents for one."
Liz Owens: "So it doesn't really matter how bad of trouble you get in at school? You could hit a kid at school or have a history of being violent at school as long, as that didn't happen on the bus, he's not going to lose his bus privileges?"
Phyllis Schwarting: "Well that's sort of taking things out of context."
Schwarting would not comment on the possibility of the picture being flipped. She told Liz Owens, "I have information to the contrary."
Clearly, this is just another innocent black man being framed for a crime he didn't commit.
UPDATE | Police: Photo of 5 year old slapped possibly flipped
http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/17-year-to-be-charged-with-bus-assault-on-5-year-old--391655191.html
What is abnormal is that dad did not do what men of earlier generations would have done...
The schools are such nakedly political institutions, so if conservative interest groups throw up their hands and walk away in indignation, guess who is going to be the only political influence “left” (pun, pun, pun).
You are right. This was an assault and battery, on a small child yet. Take it to the police and a lawyer. Here is a question that came to my mind...why aren’t there reform schools for young thugs like this? Out of control punks should not be going to school with other kids.
Which dad?
The older boy, he might not even HAVE a dad in the picture.
The young girl, he’s surely raising cain with the school, what else can he legally do? He’s not going to be so stupid as to sacrifice himself clear out of the girl’s life.
The public schools have to be unleashed from the federal government. They are being controlled from the leftists in Washington.
Out of curiosity what is the race of the school official?
Public Schools are an instrument of Ethnic Cleansing. It is the only function they serve.
“Context” one of the lefts favorite weasel words. They go to college to perfect their lying skills.
Equal rights imply equal obligations. Thugs of all colors ignore that to the risk of destroying civil society. We’re at danger of a complete collapse.
Schwarting needs to be fired, or recalled, or something. Her comment is the comment of someone who has given up completely.
This piece of trash doesn’t deserve to ride the bus, rather he should be dragged behind it.
Obama and his minions are now complaining that black students are disciplined more than white students. I wonder why? So for fifty years they have been forcing us to send our children to school with black kids and when some of those back kids abuse white kids they want our children to just take the abuse and not complain.
why was a 5 year old white girl at the back of the bus?
Tie him to a car and drag him.
Sounds like black privilege.
see tagline.
A few days late with the post Altura, but this in one that deserves to be reposted..
Why is a 17yr old on a school bus with a 5yr old? Is he still in kindergarten?
It is not thuggery it is the early stages of a Social War.
Well, I guess the one good thing that you can say about this school district is that they absolutely do not believe in social grade promotion. Keep the students in the same grade until they learn the material!
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