Posted on 10/28/2015 9:28:37 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
The school resource officer who was caught on camera violently flipping a South Carolina high school student at her desk has been fired, Richland County authorities announced Wednesday.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said an internal investigation over the Monday incident at Spring Valley High School in Columbia focused on whether Senior Deputy Ben Fields had violated the department’s policies. He said at a news conference that the department looked at cellphone videos taken from the classroom and interviews with witnesses, and concluded that the maneuvers he used in the confrontation were “not acceptable.”
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Seriously, a verbal refusal warrants police intervention at a school?
This forum has gone to the dogs.
I have seen several videos, the only thing physical I saw was after the officer started to flip her over in her desk - not a chair, a desk! She appeared to start flailing If you want to make a stretch you could call it punching I guess. He could have broken her neck, or caused a concussion - all because of a verbal refusal.
The officer had many more options at his disposal other than over the top physical force against a girl. Fer chrissakes, a grown man treating an adolescent girl like that for a school infraction that was an administrative issue (essentially insubordination). The officer could’ve dragged her while in her desk out into the hall without flipping her over backwards, he could’ve tasered her, pepper sprayed her, called for another officer to help restrain her in a much less violent manner, all sorts of things other than what he did.
In most of these cases that stirred up the BLM movement I saw them for the BS that they were (most notably Michael Brown and perhaps even Freddie Gray). This is just outright overreaction writ large.
Bingo! Next time they call, just don't respond. It's not worth losing your job to a spineless boss or being crucified by the federal government. The school needs to have a 3 strikes and you're expelled policy. Document the misbehavior and expel.
Precisely. It is obvious to us, right?
Just throw a hand grenade into the room and lock the door.
That goes both ways. The rest of the force could opt to go work for someone with a spine and there isn't squat sheriff spineless could do about it.
The easy standard that police should use in their behavior borrows from Matthew 7:12.
In short, police should not do anything that they would arrest someone else for doing. That simple.
...and that snitches only get stitches (intimidation) when they run counter to the narrative.
That is true. Do you know of a sheriff in the area with seven hundred openings?
Not to worry!
Shariah Law will deal with that!
This is the social version of ebonics.
Not teaching your child respect for authority has consequences.
You’re wrong. The sheriff is wrong. The stupid news readers are all wrong.
The deputy was tasked with removing the student who chose not not get up and walk out of the room. When he tried to pick her up, she is the one who made the chair tip over. The deputy did not “body slam” nor did he “throw her across the room”.
All you pansy-butts have never see real confrontation before so you believe the BS that comes out of the TV. I’d like to see any of your pinkos try to remove a recalcitrant teen if she doesn’t want to leave.
School, education, for the majority who are there to learn, has gone to the dogs.
Nothing more needs be said.
An MP buddy when I was in the army told me the simple way to get someone out of a chair or car - take a bic pen and place the click end behind the person’s earlobe and your thumb on the front side of the earlobe and squeeze. A second or two later and the person won’t be able to get up fast enough. Doesn’t require a struggle and no one is hurt beyond a pinched ear. The cop could then either have led her by the arm or put cuffs on. He wouldn’t have been fired and it would have been far more appropriate than his method.
“In short, police should not do anything that they would arrest someone else for doing. That simple.”
That simplistic. You DO realize that bad people do not always cooperate? That cops carry guns and billy clubs for a reason? Remember what Paul wrote to the Romans:
“Every Christian ought to obey the civil authorities, for all legitimate authority is derived from God’s authority, and the existing authority is appointed under God. To oppose authority then is to oppose God, and such opposition is bound to be punished.
The honest citizen has no need to fear the keepers of law and order, but the dishonest man will always be nervous of them. If you want to avoid this anxiety just lead a law-abiding life, and all that can come your way is a word of approval. The officer is God’s servant for your protection. But if you are leading a wicked life you have reason to be alarmed. The “power of the law” which is vested in every legitimate officer, is no empty phrase. He is, in fact, divinely appointed to inflict God’s punishment upon evil-doers.”
I was at a restaurant late one night and some people came in that appeared to be from a wedding party, and a couple of them were pretty drunk. One got into an argument with the hostess and the manager and was just being an ass. Suddenly I hear him yelling and cussing, and I look over and see another man from the same wedding party, about half his size, has him by the ear with a Gerber too and headed for the front door. He returned to applause from just about everyone in the place.
It is that simple.
If the police do something that they’d arrest you for doing (for instance) then they are criminals.
And I’m personally quite pleased that our Founding Fathers didn’t pay too much attention to the Apostle Paul or else we’d all be singing God Save The Queen as our national anthem.
Right or wrong police have to realize they can be captured on video at anytime. Keep this in mind or lose your police career. You chief will not back you up in the least.
Personally I have no problem with this cop. But this is the age of video anytime, anywhere. He screwed himself out of a good job. You can’t blame the bestial girl he was dealing with. She’s on automatic like a zombie. Plus he was the adult here. Adults don’t let some punk mess up their career.
That is his Divinely ordained purpose. However, if he stops doing that and acts contrary to that purpose, i.e., outside the scope of his legitimate authority, then he is not acting as God’s servant.
Cordially,
Cops look for patterns of behavior and we should, too. What scares you about that? The government policing the police?
It would have ruined her hair. I hear they don’t like that.
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