**Difficult to Watch**11-year-old crying while police officer assaults her...

[cynatnite]

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I can't handle this!

[drray23]

1. A regular person would have been charged with child molestation

Or assault on a minor. Firing him is not enough.

[Corgigal]

2. Guy seems to like hurting

little girls, or women.

DNA him for the databank, search your damn rape kits states.

[madaboutharry]

3. What an asshole.

I hope he is prosecuted and sued.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. What a sick fucker.

[ret5hd]

5. My Fuckin' Gawd...so what would happen if...

(with this type video evidence of the situation) one of the bystanders stopped the officer?

[montanacowboy]

7. Maybe it's high time

that onlookers do something about this kind of behavior; I don't give a damn if he is a policeman, fuck him. This goes beyond anything.

[lostnfound]

9. Agreed but intervening would probably have ended up with a shooting by cop.

There is no way that this creep would tolerate any interference without pulling a trigger.

[Mariana]

15. Oh, his life would never be the same, if he intervened.

He would certainly be beaten up, by this cop and his colleagues who would be called in as backup. He might very well be shot. If he survives the initial encounter, the bystander would then be arrested and charged with a pile of felonies. His bail will be set high as hell, and his case will drag on for years. You can just imagine what that will do to his career, his reputation, and financial security, and his relationships. Even if he wins, he loses.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. The cop deserves jail time and whoever was off camera deserves a Profiles in Cowardice Award

Dial 911. And then IN TER VENE. Pull the kid away and protect her with your body.

I am generally pro cop (I know, not popular here) but that was unnecessary and unprofessional IN THE EXTREME. That angers the living fuck out of me.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Jesus. Now we have to teach children how to assume the position.

The child was horrified having a man try to get her on her stomach. Her instinct was to protect herself the best way she knew how.

That's what I'm seeing there.

[kacekwl]

10. The classic "stop resisting" line.

I wonder if he has kids. Or even knows some. Jerk-off.

[Blue_true]

11. There are really good police officers, we hear their stories sometime.

But a person like him should not be policing, he was loud, agressive and seemed to escalate the situation.

[PA Democrat]

12. The student has special needs.

Maybe an mental health counselor trained in behavioral therapies would be better suited to deal with the child's challenging behaviors instead of a brutal asshole cop who needs to beat up a child to show her just who is in charge. This makes me ill.

[The Figment]

13. This is not as uncommon as one might think...

I spent 9 years in care of the N.Y. State Juvenile Justice System from the age of 11 till I was 19, as my parents were deemed unfit,I got good grades in school, never was in any serious trouble with the law, and tried to "do the right thing" most of the time.

As a ward of the court all state kids were required to carry proper ID stating who we were and that we were under state care,this was a BIG problem!

Hand a Nassau County L.I. police officer your I.D. and you were almost always guaranteed to be "cuffed and stuffed" without question. The officer always assumed that you were a troublemaker and treated you as such...it sucked.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. FTP.

[sl8]

16. "She was very strong, stronger than I was."

From Vox article, https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/24/20929397/police-officer-excessive-force-school-11-year-old-girl-new-mexico

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But it was when the girl opens a door that the school principal is standing in front of, brushing against him in the process, that the officer approaches her and begins to use force, claiming that the girl had committed assault as she moved past. Christensen also claimed that the student assaulted him during the encounter, writing in an incident report that “She was very strong, stronger than I was.”

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