S.C. deputy filmed slamming teen girl out of desk, dragging her away

[dixiehack]

Feds to investigate violent incident of officer slamming, dragging student at Spring Valley

White cop, black girl. He's already on administrative leave, and his sheriff sounds ready to fire him as soon as he can get back from a conference in Chicago. Just all kinds of ugly.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I feel like our nation, as a whole, needs anger management counseling already.

 

[HC]

I keep watching the video that says she's throwing punches at the officer but all I see is someone reacting to being grabbed and manhandled.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I caught a brief clip of this and I was taken aback by how the rest of the class seemed to ignore what was happening. Could have been more reaction I missed, but the juxtaposition was striking.

 

[User 11148]

The person who posted the Instagram video says the student was initially asked to leave the class for telling the teacher that she would not put away her phone. The poster says the teacher disciplined the student with a write-up for being disrespectful and disobedient. After being asked to leave again, and her refusing, an administrator came to remove her, she refused, and that is when the SRO was called in.

The poster of this video claims when Fields got to the classroom, he asked her to get up from her desk 4 or 5 times and again, she tells him no. After moving objects from around the student, and asking again to leave the classroom, and her refusing, that is where you see the officer getting physical.

What do you do here? I'm at a loss.

 

[BTExpress]

Taser, anyone?

 

[cjericho]

What do you do here? I'm at a loss.

It didn't end well. Guess you just have to let the kids have their phones because I'm sure they only have them in case of emergency.
Kids in this class kind of ignored the teacher getting attacked also, except those who seemed happy he was being attacked.

Paterson freshman charged with assault after classroom attack on teacher - Paterson - NorthJersey.com

 

[cranberry]

Meh. Just failing teachers in failing schools failing.

 

[Big Circus]

I caught a brief clip of this and I was taken aback by how the rest of the class seemed to ignore what was happening. Could have been more reaction I missed, but the juxtaposition was striking.

It's pretty telling to me. They're all keeping quiet, some looking down or away, no one making a move. Seems like they know from experience how to react.

 

[Stoney]

What do you do here? I'm at a loss.

Perhaps we start by banning all the damn phones from classrooms.

I'm with you, if that account is accurate (and I suspect it is), not sure what else the school could do other than physically force the kid out.

 

[User 11148]

It didn't end well. Guess you just have to let the kids have their phones because I'm sure they only have them in case of emergency.

It's not just the phones, it's anything. Remember the UW-Milwaukee student a few years ago? Essentially took over the class because the instructor wouldn't talk about the student's exam right then? Then, when the instructor had as a last resort called in security, she dared security to take her out? And then had the nerve to act surprised that they did?

You keep calling their bluff, eventually you're going to stumble across them not bluffing. And then you wind up like Hank Williams, Jr. did ...

She called the cops to take me in
And I said you're never gonna do it friend
And they just smiled and said "Oh Yes We Will"
Now a stick to the head and some kicks in the chin
And several bites from Rin Tin Tin
And I couldn't wait to get into that jail

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Perhaps we start by banning all the damn phones from classrooms.

I'm with you, if that account is accurate (and I suspect it is), not sure what else the school could do other than physically force the kid out.

And then when someone won't get off the phone in that situation?

 

[Armchair_QB]

You do what this guy did.

If the races are reversed - or it's white on white or black on black - this isn't a story.

 

[HC]

I never considered the racial angle at all. I just saw a full grown man violently throwing a teenager to the ground. I don't know how you handle this but THIS was not it.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Perhaps we start by banning all the damn phones from classrooms.

We shouldn't do that because A) phones don't resist arrest, people do, and B) bad kids won't follow the rules anyway.

 

[User 11148]

I never considered the racial angle at all. I just saw a full grown man violently throwing a teenager to the ground. I don't know how you handle this but THIS was not it.

I don't know HC. Some version of "THIS" was probably going to go down. Unless you're willing to allow the student to exercise that degree of veto power over the classroom, she's going to be hauled out of there, and I suspect there's no way to make "hauled out" look pretty.

 

[JC]

You do what this guy did.

If the races are reversed - or it's white on white or black on black - this isn't a story.

You really believe a man throwing around a teenage girl is only a story because of race?

 

[Armchair_QB]

If teenagers act like they're raised by wolves, then they should be treated that way.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

You really believe a man throwing around a teenage girl is only a story because of race?

There is a black parents teachers association in the district. There must be some reason for that, and why they're not just members of the local PTA. Maybe there have been previous issues about race in the district?

 

[User 4332]

I don't know HC. Some version of "THIS" was probably going to go down. Unless you're willing to allow the student to exercise that degree of veto power over the classroom, she's going to be hauled out of there, and I suspect there's no way to make "hauled out" look pretty.

There may not be a way to make hauling a student out look pretty, but there sure as hell is a way to not make it look horrific. Quite frankly, I don't think you can ever make an arrest in a school look pretty.

Good school resource officers learn to negotiate with teenagers to get a desired outcome, not jump past three steps on their use-of-force continuum in under 10 seconds for a student who is not exhibiting any threats.