New Mexico school resource officer resigns after being caught on video allegedly roughing up[trun]

NBC News ^ | 10/22/2019 | Theo Wayt

[wastedyears]

A New Mexico school resource officer has resigned after allegedly using excessive force against an 11-year-old girl who he alleges "took more milks than she was supposed to" from the cafeteria.

[wastedyears]

Full length title: “New Mexico school resource officer resigns after being caught on video allegedly roughing up 11-year-old girl”

[wastedyears]

Got one for ya.

[neverevergiveup]

This was also a special needs kid. If you can’t control your temper you should not be a school resource officer.

[yldstrk]

I hate bullies. Fire him. Who cares how many milks the kids take?

[Aevery_Freeman]

That 11-year-old girl went about two bills.

Think that little cow has had enough milk.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Who cares how many milks the kids take?

Well, technically, the entity who bought the milks would care. The proper response by this Resource Officer would have been to simply pay for the extra milks after he witnessed the event.

Or was this Resource Officer lacking in resources? Monetary and mentally.

[apillar]

It's been my experience that officers who get assigned to "School Resource Officer" duty in many jurisdictions are the ones the Police Department want to remove from "real" Police Work because they are incompetent, overly aggressive, reckless or all of the above. A School Resources Officer assignment is the modern version of "Desk Duty" or "Meter Maid".

They had just started the School Resource Officer position when I was in High School (early 1990's). It became a running joke because all he did was sit in the gym all day and ogle the girls gym classes.

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“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker

Roughs up a school girl?

SOMEBODY didn't pass his psych eval...

...and somebody hired him anyway.

Find that person, make a horrible example of him or her. Do that every time a sociopath with a badge and gun misbehaves.

Word will get around and departments will stop hiring psychopaths.

Train to shoot kids, start by roughing a girl up, end with dead kids.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[sport]

He may roughed her up, but he did it bravely, courageously, fearlessly, gallantly, giving absolutely no to her age. He would have done the same thing if she was 3 years old. Medals should be flowing his way.

[wastedyears]

She has special needs. There was zero reason for him to do what he did.

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[VietVet876]

The girl has a lawyer. It’s all about the money. Her “special needs” and “justice” are measured in $U.S.

[wastedyears]

The girl has a lawyer. It’s all about the money. Her “special needs” and “justice” are measured in $U.S.

I'm not talking like a liberal here, but that's awfully judgmental of you. How do you know what her mental faculties are like? Do you know what grade level she reads at?

[VietVet876]

Being New Mexico, she probably reads at the second or third grade level. I’d need to see the parents or, more likely, the baby mamma to make a better judgement. The great thing about responding to articles and videos posted here is that one may be judgmental based on the skinniest slivers of evidence.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Have you ever had to "teach" these "special" children?

If not, please reserve judgment.

[wastedyears]

What does that have to do with not being treated like a criminal?

[Aevery_Freeman]

Not acting like one.

[David Chase]

Anyone could be faced with an armed child, not just police.

The fact that the picture is a target for the gun range means that if the officer fails to shoot and take cover instead, or run or just talk to the child the officer will fail their rotation at the range that day.

Some Departments encourage aggressive behavior too.
“It’s us or them.”

[wastedyears]

How was she acting like a criminal?