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Title: Officer slams female student to the ground for refusing to leave class
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Examiner
URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/off ... nd-for-refusing-to-leave-class
Published: Oct 26, 2015
Author: Examiner
Post Date: 2015-10-27 07:46:20 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 20255
Comments: 73
A South Carolina officer attacks, slams African-American female student to the ground. Racial tension between police and the African-American community has only increased over the last year. After a video circulated on social media Monday night showing an officer attacking a student, that tension only got worse. An unnamed African-American female was allegedly disturbing class and was asked to leave, when she refused, a school resource officer was called in to help the situation. As local WIS-TV in South Carolina reported on Oct. 26, the officer only made matters worse. In a class room in Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., a typical scene of a student acting out apparently took place. When the student refused, the unnamed Caucasian officer entered the room, grabbing the students arm where he proceeded to slam the girl and her desk to the ground. The video was captured by a fellow classmate that also showed the officer putting the student's arms around her back, positioning her to be arrested. "The student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions which she again refused," Sheriff Leon Lott told local WIS-TV. "The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO." The officer has since been placed on leave. The video began circulating throughout social media, mostly on Facebook and Twitter, where outrage and debate over proper police procedure took place. While many have hopes that the tension between African-Americans and the police community will star to cool down, incidents like the one in Spring Valley High School shows there's a lot of work to do.Spring Valley High School’s ‘Incredible Hulk’ — Deputy Ben Fields — has history of alleged misconduct and racial bias 
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#11. To: Deckard (#0)
Once someone does something that warrants an arrest, if they do not cooperate willingly, then force is justified. Assuming arrest was warranted, I don't see any problem with the police conduct here. The article title does not reflect what's in the video either.
I have a problem with the cop being called in the first place. When did teachers start to delegate their authority out to police? Did you see how big the teacher is? Bigger than the cop - and black. The guy could have pushed the desk out in the hallway with the disruptive student in it - problem solved.
#13. To: Deckard (#12)
Because if the teacher had as much as tapped the student on the shoulder, the teacher would have been fired, brought up on charges, and publicly admonished by by the school district.
I'm going with the fairly safe assumption that police intervention was desired by the teacher/school, and that the officer was there with the consent of the teacher. If that was the case, and the police was called inappropriately, then fault does not lie with the police office but rather with the teacher, and in that event blame should not be given to the police officer as the article plainly directs it. But assuming the student was disruptive to the point of disturbing the function of the classroom, all participants there being present by contract, and the student was refusing to leave and continuing to disrupt, she's disturbing the peace and arrest was warranted, and the degree of physical forced used reasonable to that end. That's my take on this one.
And that's the officers fault? You think LE likes wiping your sheep noses?
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#12. To: Pinguinite (#11)
Assuming arrest was warranted, I don't see any problem with the police conduct here.
Replies to Comment # 12. I have a problem with the cop being called in the first place. When did teachers start to delegate their authority out to police?
#15. To: Deckard (#12)
I have a problem with the cop being called in the first place. When did teachers start to delegate their authority out to police?
#22. To: Deckard (#12)
I have a problem with the cop being called in the first place. When did teachers start to delegate their authority out to police?
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