unbelievable watch this

shouldn't a police resource officer be able to handle this situation a little better?

if you don't think so you're an idiot.

Yes, he should have pepper sprayed her first. At which point she would have went to the fetal position and the SRO never would have had to physically touch her in the first place. Everybody wins...



Jeez, Pete, just relax.. I'm kidding!!! Holy cow!!
 
Can you stop being over dramatic and saying body slam?? Whenever I think of body slamming, I picture this:
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This says the student hit the SRO.
http://abc7chicago.com/news/video-shows-student-hit-officer-sheriff-says/1054318/

At least that body-slam is fake.
 
Seems fair to me.

In 2009, during my senior year in high school, my entire table had their cell phones out. All saw the teacher coming except me. I was busted having it out and she took it.

I gave her the phone.

Why? Because I wasn't supposed to have it out in the first place, and I had to pay the consequences for doing so.

Did it suck my buddies weren't caught? Sure. But I'm not blaming them, and I'm not blaming her for not catching them.

Why?

Because I am responsible for my own actions, and pay for my actions.

i'm also assuming you are a white male from a mostly white high school in Iowa that has never been discriminated against and profiled. Its different worlds and not comparable.
 
I would get the kids out mostly for liability reasons, that is standard practice in a school. It is not standard practice to allow kids to film and put up on the internet videos of their classmates, as it is a violation of their privacy especially as minors. If a kid had gotten injured as collateral damage to this whole thing that school would be up to their chins in lawsuits more so then they already will be.
 
If this video is from Gilbert High School in an all-white classroom and everything else is exactly the same, many of the comments here would look much different. There's unfortunately no question about it

Many are drawing a lot of uncomfortable conclusions from a short video clip
 
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The girl was not defenseless. In fact, she had the best defense of all, in the sense that she could've stopped the whole thing from happening.

One thing is indisputable: this doesn't happen if she just does what she's told, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES.
 
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"There's no justification for some of his actions...We want to de-escalate situations instead of escalate them. When you have somebody on fire you don't want to throw gasoline on them. You want to put the fire out"

gee, I wonder who said that? Surely some ACLU wonk. Or maybe a BLM rep.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/us/south-carolina-school-arrest-video/index.html

From same article.

CNN law enforcement analyst Harry Houck cautioned against jumping to conclusions about Fields, even if the initial video "looks really bad."If an officer decides to make an arrest, Houck said, he or she "can use whatever force is necessary."
"So if you don't comply with my wishes ... then I can do whatever it takes to get you out of that seat and put handcuffs on you," said Houck, a former New York police detective.
 
If this video is from Gilbert High School in an all-white classroom and everything else is exactly the same, many of the comments here would look much different. There's unfortunately no question about it

Many are drawing a lot of uncomfortable conclusions from a short video clip

Has anything remotely close ever happened in a Gilbert High classroom?

If not, this is completely irrelevant.
 
Has anything remotely close ever happened in a Gilbert High classroom?

If not, this is completely irrelevant.
This kind of stuff is more common than you'd think, but usually not with a police officer using that level of force. Defiance in a classroom isn't anything new.
 
I don't think it would be any difference if a white kid was body slammed by an SRO in a completely full classroom.

I agree, which is why it is ridiculously irrelevant to even bring up the aforementioned scenario in the first place.
 
From same article.

I don't believe Harry Houck is the man's commanding officer. Sheriff Lott on the other hand...

And even so, that's exactly what we've I've been talking about. Regardless of if it's legal now, the type of escalation we see in the video ought to be outlawed. That type of escalation has no place in our schools, our streets, or our society. And if seeing videos of cops acting this way is what finally turns the tide of public opinion, and gets the law changed, then that's fantastic. The cops should have no problem with their "justified" actions being put on display.
 
Didn't read the whole thread but I agree with a lot of what has been posted (first 40 posts). The student is disobedient and needs to learn to respect authority.

That said, you guys should read some of the comments on Facebook... absolutely brutal. So many people crying police brutality.
 
I never said race was a factor at all in what happened at the school.

Then what the **** does this have to do with anything????


If this video is from Gilbert High School in an all-white classroom and everything else is exactly the same, many of the comments here would look much different. There's unfortunately no question about it

Many are drawing a lot of uncomfortable conclusions from a short video clip