Black 17yo Assaults 5yo White Girl on School Bus, School Officials Defend As "Normal"

InformationLiberation ^ | 8/31/2016

[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

[JimSEA]

Perhaps a devilish combination of the two.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

If I recall correctly, she’s white.

[sauropod]

They will reap the whirlwind.

[sauropod]

They will reap the whirlwind.

[Pollster1]

A lot of things are normal. That includes shooting predators yourself when government fails in its responsibility to protect or at least avenge the innocent. Even if the poor little girl’s father falls short, I doubt it will be more than a year before a homeowner or neighborhood watchman solves this problem - permanently.

[Joe Brower]

If I'm ever present to witness something like this, it will be national news.

Just sayin'.

[seowulf]

If the mark on that little girls face had been made at home, you could bet the school would have called the Child Protective Service to investigate.

There would have been investigators knocking on the door with a deputy a step behind to take the little girl out of a dangerous home.

It seems the state doesn’t care about protecting children in school.

[Vehmgericht]

Swarting has an ironclad contract. If she is fired for incompetence she will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars. School superintendents are like Mafia dons. They are often ignorant, grossly overpaid and have been instructed in the best way to write a contract. Look up Beverly Hall, “Dr.” Arlene Ackerman, and “Dr” Kathy Augustine to name just a few.

[Carl Vehse]

Legalize public flogging for this type of crime.

[dsrtsage]

But the 5 year old was clearly excercising her privelege and oppressing the 17 year old

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[maggief]

[DoughtyOne]

And yet, if that girl got those marks at home, she would be taken from her parents.

Those school officials are pure grade a scum.

[bgill]

Wow, those marks were still on her face. If that was my child....

[ssaftler]

While reading this, one thing came to mind:

How would this have been reported had the races of the perp and the victim been reversed???

[hal ogen]

The “educators” describing the black fellow’s behavior as “normal” seems racist. The “educators” once again prove their are morons.

[hal ogen]

The stupid is strong with this one. Yet another “educator” bilking the taxpayer out of their money.

[DoughtyOne]

Couldn’t agree more.

Never in our nation’s history have so many people unfit to lead been given positions of leadership in our education system.

You could easily fire 35% of them and never touch a solid individual.

[dljordan]

The correct response and one that will see a resurgence if events proceed as expected.

[arthurus]

"The behavior on the bus was not any more abnormal than most buses."

The money quote! Probably true.