Posted on 10/27/2015 6:27:39 AM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina school district banned a school resource officer pending an investigation after a video surfaced Monday showing him tossing a student across a classroom floor.
The video has since gone viral.
The incident, captured on cellphones of at least two students, occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia. School officials and sheriff's deputies said they are investigating what happened.
Deputy Ben Fields has been placed on administrative duties as authorities investigate his handling of the female student, Lt. Wilson said.
The video shows Fields asking a girl to rise from a classroom desk. Another adult is standing nearby. The girl stays seated, so the officer wraps a forearm around the child's neck. The officer then tips the attached chair and desk backward until she spills to the floor. The officer then drags the girl several feet across the floor, then tosses her, orders her to put her hands behind her back and applies handcuffs.
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I heard the girl was being disruptive in class but still...seemed a bit excessive.
Idiots!
Yeah, seems a bit excessive, but the next thing you hear will be that the girl is awaitng the pope to give her sainthood.
Put cops in school, this is what you get. What other outcome would you expect?
There are pressure points that the officer could have used to get the girl to stand up. What disturbs me the most about the article/clip is he also removed another female student who was “praying out loud” saying, “If you have so much to say then you can come with me, too”. Did this girl have attitude? Yes. Was the response over the top? IMHO. yes.
For those that look at this video and assume that the officer is in error, a couple of questions:
Lets assume that the officer has been called to the class room because the student is being disruptive and will not leave the classroom per the teacher’s instruction. So now what? It is the student who has escalated the situation by failure to comply with authority. This is common in the gangsta culture.
1) Does the officer have the authority to “go hands on” with the student when they fail to follow the officers commands?
2) Can the officer use joint locks and pain holds to get the student out of the desk / chair?
3) Can the officer us a taser to enforce compliance?
4) What is the line that you would draw as being appropriate and inappropriate?
Personal disclosure - I thought the officer was well within his rights and the student was non-compliant with the officers ORDER to get out of the desk.
As someone said, this is what happens when you put cops in schools, and administrators stop doing their own disciplinary functions.
Why bother anymore?
In situations like these where idiots are running the schools and the ferals do as they please - there is no possible way for anyone (white, black or whatever) to control and administer discipline.
Integration - fifty years into it - and what have we learned?
I thought getting arrested for resisting authority was a badge of honor?
The female hoodrat does NOT need a mate to provide it with food and shelter. Government does that. The female hoodrat needs a male hoodrat to provide it with young, a necessary element in the quantity and quality of food and shelter Government will provide.
If it was my kid, I would have told him/her “You shouldn’t have been disrupting the class and you should have cooperated with the teacher and the cop.” But it wouldn’t have been my kid.
Agreed. The teacher could have given her a O on the assignment/test under suspicion of cheating. The cops in our county schools are more “hand selected”.. i.e. based on a more casualness vs John Wayne/Joan Wayne attitude. I suspect this will not end well for the officer.
I see it slightly differently. This is what happens when you don’t expel those not interested in learning, or at least send them to another institution, such as an old-style reform school, more suited to their educational potential.
“Personal disclosure - I thought the officer was well within his rights and the student was non-compliant with the officers ORDER to get out of the desk.”
I agree. He put her on the ground, restrained her, and cuffed her.
It will also end badly for the "student".
I see it slightly differently.
I heard this morning while driving into the office that the teacher could not handle the student, called the principal in. He/she could not handle the student and only then did they call the police for assistance. I heard about video, sounds awful... but what the heck was going on with the kid? I see it like you do, why and how does a kid become such a problem for all.... too bad they simply didn’t drag the chair out the doors and into the parking lot for parent pickup!
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