S.C. deputy filmed slamming teen girl out of desk, dragging her away

Hulk Hogan-style.

 

And my point all along has been that Plan B is not slamming the kid backwards in her desk and then tossing her across the room like a rag doll. The officer had other options.

 

That's fine. I already said I buy into your reasoning about starting with soft hands. It was only the part about not-enough-talking that I disputed.

 

That's the thing. When a kid won't do what you want them to do, sometimes you don't have a choice other than involving the resource officer. But I don't see any way to justify that reaction to a kid sitting peacefully. There was no need to escalate it like that.

Also, I've seen three angles of the incident. Basically every kid on the other side of the classroom was filming.

 

Did any film in landscape? Im sick of the vert video

 

For all those ok with this level of force, I can only assume this how you would treat your petulant teenage daughters if they ever refuse to do what you ask.

 

True, although I would hope some time would be cut off when the administrator calls before going to the classroom. The administrator can always call the parent back and tell them not to come if they get the kid out of the classroom. Better yet, if the kid goes with the administrator, they can call the parent together.

 

And no one here has come within a mile of that argument. What has been argued -- at least by me -- is that AT SOME POINT along the path trod here, the application of force becomes likely. Even you, in suggesting that the officer didn't avail himself of other, less violent, methods, imply that there would have been a point at which this officer's actions would have been "objectively reasonable."

 

This is a crock of shit.

 

Easy solution. Bring in a hefty dolly, slide it under the legs of her desk, lean it back, and then push that little troublemaker out to the front step of the school for mommy/daddy to come collect.

Next.

 

Well, at least we know now that the officer isn't racist: