The Latest: Deputy shown in video tossing student reassigned
Source: AP
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) The latest on the fallout of a video showing an officer working inside a South Carolina high school tossing a student across the classroom floor (all times local):
9 p.m.
The school resource officer at a South Carolina high school is being reassigned after a video surfaced showing him tossing a student across a classroom floor.
The incident apparently captured on a student's cellphone happened at Spring Valley High School in Columbia on Monday.
A little more at link.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1da399db01ab4835b0392f4644a9e7f2/latest-deputy-shown-video-tossing-student-reassigned
GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)...to an overcrowded jail cell!
This shkreli-fuck asshole needs to prosecuted, not reassigned.
trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)i hope the student and her parents sue to millions!!!!!
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I hope he wasn't assigned to an elementary school.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)smdh
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Instead we just let him slam them around a little. I bet the little brats will shape up real fast.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)as Trump's bodyguard.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)he just want's to feed his ego and show people he can be.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)If they can't abuse children without having to worrying about ending up in a viral video and people like you writing mean comments about them online, how can they be expected to do their jobs?
bonniebgood
(937 posts)rpannier
(24,304 posts)and was defending himself
or some other excuse they reflexively use
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)not even looking to witness the event. What kind of hell is going on in that school that they are so intimidated?
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)According to one of the apologists I've seen, it's because "they have no sympathy" for the assaulted student.
Well, that's one way of looking at it.
-- Mal
jwirr
(39,215 posts)video say a great deal by their body language - very carefully avoiding looking but tense and aware of all.
When I saw it was a girl that coward was treating that way I understood the stillness in the room. This is not the first time this resource guy has done this.
It is ironic that these resource officers were placed in schools all across the US to protect our children after all the school shootings. Apparently the violence is now how they protect the students.
They should not be part of what is going on inside the classroom. They should not be the teachers strong arm.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)I thought at the very least, the teacher should have been yelling for help for the student. Instead, he just stands complacently by.
(Edited to add that I am "assuming" that person is a teacher. I don't believe he's been identified. Either way, he stood by while this happened without reaction).
starroute
(12,977 posts)The 15-second video of sheriff's deputy Ben Fields slamming a student to the ground sent shivers down Carlos Martin's spine.
After all, he'd been manhandled by the beefy South Carolina cop the same way almost exactly 10 years before. . . .
Martin said the beefy officer "snapped" after he called him "dude," and slammed him on the ground. He began pepper-spraying the helpless veteran, but Martin said he was trained in the military to resist the chemicals. An entire canister of the stuff failed to disable Martin.
"He became even more violent because I didn't react like most people would," Martin told the News.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)The officer needs to be suspended pending an investigation, even if the department has to bit the bullet and do it with pay. Get him off the street. He should be no where near anyone conducting the investigation to avoid tainting it.
Everything happens so fast it is really hard to see. I've played it again and again and stopped it in places and it's blurry.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)NOTHING!
Morning Joe had a good clear video of the incident. Maybe you want to look there for it. It is a very clear, close up version.
She was holding on to her desk with both hands, the cop slammed the desk down on the floor, the girl landed on her back on top of the chair then he dragged her to the front of the class.
BTW there was pretty tall, IMO- strong looking black man standing at the head of the class who just looked on. Teacher? Possibly.
I hope she wasn't hurt, because it looked like he could have broken her back or cracked her head open.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)because they have the equipment. Either that or there is a second video out there of the same incident. Given most of the students had phones I have to believe more than one student was recording it.
In part two of the video there is a AA cop who has a kid in a headlock and tries to take a swing at him, but the kid (thankfully) was very fast and ducked and the cop missed by a long shot.
lib87
(535 posts)This resource officer is menace but it took a cellphone video to get him fired. I need charges to be filed against him and the principal who watched it like it was no big deal to resign as well.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)malthaussen
(17,066 posts)I'm surprised he didn't pull out a pistol and shoot the girl.
-- Mal