Can *anybody* explain this to me? Because I sure as fuck don't get it.

[Blue_Tires]

Students Walk Out in Support of Fired Deputy

Hundreds of students walked out of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday morning in support of the deputy sheriff who was fired after violently arresting a black student. Students reportedly chanted “Free Fields” in support of Ben Fields, a school resource officer and football coach who was caught on tape forcibly removing a black student from her desk, allegedly because she was disrupting class. The students walked into the school atrium and then returned to class after administrators addressed them.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/10/30/students-walk-out-for-fired-deputy.html?via=twitter_page

http://www.live5news.com/story/30393934/spring-valley-students-stage-walkout-in-support-of-ben-fields

[cheapdate]

1. I'm guessing those kids are from "Fox News" households,

where all law officers are known as "heroes".

[GoneFishin]

22. I was thinking along those lines too.

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. Football is important, you know?

Sheesh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Turns out the asshole cop was also the football coach.

Football matters, don't ya know.

[Snobblevitch]

12. Football matters to the students at the Ohio school

where the football coach literally chased the shooter from the school building.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hero-coach-frank-hall-on-ohio-school-shooting-at-chardon-high/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. And that's relevant to this case... how?

Yay for the coach who chased the shooter in Ohio. The thug cop/coach who slammed the girl in SC was something else entirely. The two cases have no relevance to each other.

[Snobblevitch]

38. You made a sarcastic comment about football.

Not all football coaches are assholes like the one that beat up the girl. My high school football coach was a great guy and a family man.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. My comment suggested that the students who protested the thug cop/coach's firing

apparently regarded their football program as more important than the way their pig of a coach treated the girl he abused. I do reserve the right to be sarcastic about football because it (and other sports) gets way more respect, attention and funding than it deserves. Of course not all football coaches are assholes. At my high school the hockey coach was the asshole.

[liberal_at_heart]

25. For most football teams winning is all that matters so football players can get away with quite a

lot with no consequences because if the team punished the player then they might lose the game. Happens everywhere.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I was wondering when I watched the video that none of the other students were even

phased by all the activity. They looked like it was an everyday occurrence. I wonder if the girl was a disruptive influence in the class and the students that were there to learn are the ones supporting the deputy.

[bkkyosemite]

7. She lost her mother. He gave her serious injuries to her

back neck and arm. This guy did not show any concern when he did this. He could have killed her (broke her neck) the way he slammed her and then grab her out of her desk. This child needed help and instead she got violence.

[LiberalArkie]

15. Yes, I know. I was just wondering because normally when something like that is going on

you see some kind emotion out of other people. Maybe they are so numbed by everything that they prefer videoing everything instead of experiencing something. I have seen videos where a bunch of people are videoing a person bleeding to death instead of helping the person. Maybe that is why everyone did not even bat an eye. I noticed the girl seated behind her did not even flinch when the desk was slammed into hers.

[Chemisse]

18. They are teenagers.

They specialize in hiding their emotions.

[JackInGreen]

30. I work with and see several teens a day

Their opinion reflects mine.
Fear. Those kids didn't react because an angry cop is a mad dog, and will bite anyone that objects.
When you've been show that Coach Dredd can do anything you shut up, scrunch down, let the storm pass.

[LiberalArkie]

32. It must be the jocks that are supporting him then. That makes sense.

[Fumesucker]

35. One of them did react

I think she was arrested also.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. They call him Officer Slam

He has a reputation. He also made a point to take the Chromebook off the girl's desk to keep IT safe.

[bkkyosemite]

5. That abusive SOB needs to go to jail.

[Make7]

6. Should they not all be arrested for "disturbing school"? ( n/t )

[JI7]

8. the girl is black and this guy is white

[Rex]

9. Oh NP...I am from Texas and I see the reason right away.

Students reportedly chanted “Free Fields” in support of Ben Fields, a school resource officer and football coach who was caught on tape forcibly removing a black student from her desk, allegedly because she was disrupting class.

[Chemisse]

19. It all makes sense now.

Football trumps just about everything.

[Rex]

20. As pathetic as that may sound...

It is almost like a cult...no, it IS a cult.

[geek tragedy]

10. students at my high school rallied in support of a teacher who grabbed a female

student and spanked her in front of the entire school.

high school kids are assholes

[Chemisse]

21. LOL! Yeah they can be.

A lot has to do with who the student is, and what group she is in (ie who her friends are). If the girl is an outcast or in an outcast social group, the other students will tend to side with the teacher/officer, against the girl. They don't have a lot of perspective.

As they get older (seniors), many high school kids start to gain a higher awareness, and get beyond the dictates of the teenager-created social structure. But until that happens, they are slaves to it.

[smirkymonkey]

39. You know, I don't have kids and never wanted any, but sometimes I wish I had them

just so I could raise them to be decent human beings to offset the hoards of kids who seem to be complete heartless assholes.

I swear, all the wrong people are breeding. People don't realize that the point of raising a child is to create an adult who is an asset to society, rather than a liability.

[annabanana]

41. good luck with that

[FSogol]

11. "a school resource officer and football coach"

Key word: Football.

What a frigging embarrassment. Suspend them all.

[Fumesucker]

37. The school encourages this, football is part of the official culture

Blame the adults that have encouraged this sort of behavior, not those who have been trained into it.

[Brickbat]

13. People are dicks.

That about sums it up.

[hifiguy]

17. Racist assholes raised on fundy religulon

and Faux Snooze?

[Igel]

23. Two possibilities.

Not mutually exclusive.

1. The guy was generally liked and friendly and helped a lot of kids. Perhaps because it's football, perhaps not. One officer assigned to a school I worked at got along really well with the students. And still bruised kids, no doubt, when he frog-walked them from the building after battery, drug dealing, arson, etc.

2. The student was disliked for her behavior. A lot of kids may not like school, but if a student is disruptive it makes their life harder--they dislike school, want to pass, and have to deal with a student who constantly disrupts their environment. It creates a stressed out teacher, which creates a more stressful class; it creates lower achievement levels because time is spent not on providing a free and appropriate education but in maintaining order. I had a class that actually clapped when it learned this one kid was finally sent to an alternative ed program for 6 weeks.

Note that low SES kids are more susceptible to having their learning really hurt by class disruptions. It takes 3-4 kids that like the disruption, who are rewarded for being moderate disruptors, to create problems. Or one kid who's really, really good at it. Often the "reward" is attention, or the sense of power at controlling the classroom.

Empathy has a good side, it has a bad side.

[liberal_at_heart]

24. He's a football coach? That right there explains it.

[valerief]

26. In a few years, they'll convince these kids to "fight for our freedom."

They'll wise up after losing their health from Endless War and living with the govt fucking them over.

[arcane1]

27. I didn't realize he was also a football coach. That explains it right there.

Raping children is even considered secondary to a good football coach

[lpbk2713]

28. Popularity contest IMO

I don't think right or wrong factored in so much.

[Locrian]

29. there's always a few brownshirts in every group

The kind that worship power and force.

I've heard quite a few saying she basically deserved it for not "respecting" his authority.

[JackInGreen]

31. Did Coach Dredd call in back up?

[Tommy2Tone]

33. If she was white and he was a black football coach?

He would have his life threatened but in South Carolina black lives really don't matter so we get cheers and chants of support.

[ronnie624]

34. "High School in Columbia, South Carolina"

'Nuff said

[rug]

36. Why didn't the remaining school cops body slam them to the ground?

Consistency and all.