To all those on the net who justified the body slam of the female student-the cop got fired!

[trumad]

I say COOL BEANS!

[Jack Rabbit]

1. And I say they should eat crow

Bon appetit, guys.
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Did they call her a thug while they were justifying the cop?

[trumad]

2. Crow and Beans

[madinmaryland]

3. Take a look at The Rude Pundits take on this situation.

One important comment is why are there cops in the school at all?

Another question is why are there not nonviolent means used to diffuse the situation. Aren't the cops trained to use nonviolence in a school setting?

[trumad]

5. Loved his take.

That's the crazy thing about all this. The girl was not violent. She just didn't want to get up. Did she disrupt the class...yeah--no doubt...but shit like that happens.

You get a counselor in there to talk with the girl and eventually she would chill and move out of the classroom. That's how you do it...but nope---they got a bodybuilder to slam her to the ground and drag her out.

[daleanime]

13. Amen.....

[frogmarch]

4. That's it? Fired?

Not charged with assault?

Glad he was fired but fired wasn't enough for that piece of shit.

[backscatter712]

20. My thoughts exactly...

He needs to be criminally charged, punished, ideally with some long hard time in PMITA prison, and then blacklisted from ever working in law enforcement ever again.

[jtuck004]

6. The teacher and the administrator who thought the racist bully's behavior was great are still there.

Want to think about the future if they let this stand, with 2/3 of the problem still there?

Every student at that school is in danger. If another gets hurt the lawsuit might, and should, bankrupt the municipality . The resulting charges, for which there will then be a pattern as well as evidence, might put several people both in and out of the school in prison. Might even get some kids removed from their parents for letting this go on.

This isn't over.

Oh yeah - two kids facing charges. Even if dropped, they are now in the system and will come up every time a search is made, and may well be stopped again just because of this.

And if unarmed, more likely to be shot than white folk for the same behaviors. Be careful out there.

[blackspade]

7. He needs to be charged with assault now.

Yay!

[azureblue]

8. WHile she did disrupt the class

she in no way justified this beat down. All the cop had to do was pick her and the desk up as one, and walk out of the room.

[Stuart G]

15. If he would have waited, he would not have had to do even that.

Hell, there was a cop there, the principal, and the teacher. Eventually she would have gotten up, or empty the class, like others have said..and waited.

[TipTok]

22. How long does she get to keep the other students...

... From continuing with class?

[uppityperson]

26. Does finding out her mom just died, making her an orphan, in ANY way make you want to recant your "b

"brat" calling of her?

[valerief]

9. People actually sided with the child-beating asshole? nt

[Igel]

16. Not really.

Primarily they asked what else had happened off video, what should be done with kids who disrupt classes.

The rest is spin, poor memories, or poor reading.

The same thing happened in other situations. "The jury may find otherwise" or "wait for all the facts" was taken as supporting something or other and lead to a lot of acrimony by the "you're either with us or against us" crowd who can't see anything in between "you agree with us or you're hateful and vindictive and should be given your pizza, frozen."

[erpowers]

18. People Did Side With Him

Maybe no one at DU sided with him, but there were people on the internet who supported the police officer. There were people who said the girl got what she deserved. Others complained that if the police officer had not done what he did the girl would have been running the school/class. There was also a good deal of she should have complied with the officer and teacher's request.

[ieoeja]

19. Oh?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141243490#post3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141243490#post13
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141243490#post209


And my favorite: “great job by the resource officer”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141243490#post214


Yahoo! commentators, of course, overwhelmingly think the resource officer did a great job. "A few years ago this would have been normal". I can't imagine where this guy lived that this was "normal"**.

I grew up on a family farm in the ultra-conservative, freaking bible belt as the son of an ex-Marine. Had a cop done something like that to my sister, or probably even one of us sons, my dad would have looked up that cop afterward and turned him into a bloody mess.

And the entire community would have applauded him for it.

That isn't really all that speculative as it actually happened to a violent cop when I was growing up. Twice. Both times happened in the middle of small towns ... and nobody saw a damned thing.


**Of course, I was also in an almost all White county. If we assume the Yahoo! was talking about it being normal treatment of Black kids in certain regions, then their comment rings all too sadly true.

[kcr]

24. Yes, really.

Talk about spin and poor reading.

[pintobean]

10. Yup, cool beans

Reccing this one, too.

[Javaman]

11. who would justify that cops actions?? nt

[C Moon]

12. So glad to hear that!!! That made zero sense—and that man needs to be fined, in the least!

[Stuart G]

14. There is absolutely no, I repeat "no" justification for the cops behavior..none..!!!!!!!!

[erpowers]

17. His Supporters Will Not Care

The fact that he got fired will not sway his supporters. His supporters will say he was just a victim of the PC liberal weak culture where the good guys are punished for doing the right thing.

[closeupready]

23. +1. Somehow, liberalism will be the villain here.

In their warped reality where farts smell like roses.

[kcr]

25. Oh, we're already getting some revision.

Lots of sputtering about how no one was doing any such thing, defending him, why that's just crazy!

[Tipperary]

21. Who in the world has defended him?

Here on the DU? Really?