Posted on 10/28/2015 6:37:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1
As the FBI and Department of Justice have been called in to investigate, new facts are still emerging in what Black Lives Matter activists have dubbed the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh after videos of a Columbia, South Carolina, deputy forcibly removing a non-compliant student from a desk went viral after the Monday incident.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday that the video shows the student hitting the officer who had been called to the class, but that his internal investigation did not concern the student’s behavior. He told reporters that, although the student “was wrong for disturbing the class, I’m looking at what our deputy did.”
Witnesses report that the student had taken out her cell phone in class and then refused to turn it over to a teacher. The teacher then brought in a school administrator, who asked the girl several times to leave the classroom. After the student refused those requests, the administrator requested the assistance of the deputy.
Lott expects the investigation to decide whether deputy Ben Fields will be fired should be concluded within 24 hours.
Lott also said that he doesn’t believe the incident was motivated by racism, pointing out that deputy Ben Fields has been romantically involved with a black woman for “quite some time.”
The Obama DOJ under Loretta Lynch has opened a federal civil rights investigation into what a spokesman called “the circumstances surrounding the arrest.”
Lonnie Randolph, president of the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP, said his group had called the U.S. Attorney’s Office and was very happy to see that the feds are investigating.
Meanwhile, Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 16% chimed in on the video on Twitter, with Clinton saying there was “no excuse” and Sanders using the Black Lives Matter catchphrase “school-to-prison pipeline.”
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Your response # 1, you are overthinking it. Student is suspended and refuses to leave or comes back the next day, they are trespassing. Arrest them, throw them in juvenile detention or jail.
Oh it got their attention alright. Did you see the boy in the Red shirt? Head down not looking. He was thinking, “note to self: don’t mess with the po po.”
Let me be clear, I agree 100% with this officer needing to use force, I think this girl will think twice before ignoring him (or maybe any other school authority)
If she had learned this lesson at home she would not have had to learn it in school.
If he loses his job it will be the biggest travesty, and she will grow up to be worse.
You assault a cop, all bets are off.....
The 'protected' class needs some pushback, HARD! Enough of this crap!
Per BLM, that makes him a slave-owner wannabe.
Now, because some idiot videotaped it, there is going to be total breakdown in high schools everywhere. The girl should literally be caned for absolutely refusing to obey an order from several levels of authority. Shouldn't have to bring in a deputy. A coach dragging here out would be fine.
“Not one was injured, correct? I think part of the problem was that the girl was hanging onto her desk to avoid being taken off of it.”
It appeared to me that he initially tried to lift her out of the desk and her thrashing caused the disk to rotate backwards.
Taught for many years. It has become more ridiculous every year.
Should the LEO lose his job over this, we will have more proof that we are Zimbabwe West. And, schools with problem Blacks will erupt.
Assuming that they "work" takes quite a leap of faith.
Why do I think she will more inclined to repeat her behavior? Especially after the payout the school district will make to assuage her (and her family’s) hurt feelings?
Get used to it! Create a no-win situation, and no one looks good. Unfortunately, it's the job of the schools and, sadly, the cops to deal with it. And it will get worse before it gets better.
Obie's "Just Us" Department is suing school districts, alleging civil rights violations based upon statistical outcomes. In the real world school districts are being forced to eliminate suspensions and attend "cultural sensitivity" training.
The problem, you see, is that all involved displayed insufficient cultural sensitivity. Telling authority figures to F#%K themselves is just the way it's done in their 'culture.'
And it's the rest of us that are expected to adapt.
Figgers in our government.
1st Empty the room of all students. Only the teacher is allowed.
How about this—the officer and administrator pick up/drag the desk with her in it out of the room. They wouldn’t have to even touch her until they were in the hallway. Picking up the desk wouldn’t be violent unless she began to struggle, and then it would (or should) be all on her.
The idea that a student should be free to use her phone while in class and be free to refuse to stop when asked/ordered and then be free to refuse to leave when told by a teacher, administrator, and cop is, to me beyond the Pale. No matter what happens to the cop, she should be expelled.
If you take a look at the latest video, it’s clear that the officer did not use excessive force. She punched him, and she locked her leg around the leg of the table, causing it to flip. The student did this to herself, completely.
***The teacher then brought in a school administrator, who asked the girl several times to leave the classroom.***
I noticed in the video that there was a well dressed black man in the room. Was this the teacher or the administrator?
As for the way the officer treated the girl, I’ve known several teachers who would slap a misbehaving student so hard they would have to walk sideways for a week, and another who picked up a piece of firewood and challenged the unruly students to take her on. there were no takers and she never had another problem.
People don’t realize that teachers routinely face threats of violence and assault in the classroom. Even assaults are not uncommon.
Bring in the cameras, it would shock people.
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