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

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This. It does not look good at all. But unless protocol is different there than any other school I know that has police in it, his job is to remove her from the class. Constructive authority did not work. Some think the next step was possibly pressure points or another hold. I could maybe see that if she was standing. She was sitting in a desk. If she refuses to get up, how is anyone going to get her up without picking her and/or the desk up?

 

Good story. But is the point that now those cops are well-liked?

 

Back in the day at my middle school. And he wasn't a cop, but the assistant principal/enforcer was one of the most popular guys at my son's high school.

If you are a school resource officer and you can't make connections with kids, talk to them, shoot the breeze, gain their trust and be able to get kids to talk to you about real bad stuff, you should not be in that job.

What's the point? Call a cop if you need one.

 

If the choices are lose my job or offense John Hammond's sensibilities, I'm going say, "Sorry, JH!"

 

This Is The Law Officers Use To Arrest Students For "Disturbing School"

Can't find the quote now, but the sheriff was saying yesterday that this law gets his department tangled up in multiple situations that are better handled by school personnel. But under the letter of current S.C. law, the deputy had a legitimate reason to be there and to remove the student. How he did so, of course, is where this went off the rails.

 

I think the sensible, empathetic thing to do would have been to clear the room of the rest of the class, and then talked her down from whatever she was going through at that moment. I wouldn't be surprised if a big part of her resistance was the fact that she was essentially on stage at that moment in front of all of her peers, and didn't want to give in in front of them. One on one, I imagine that situation plays out quite differently.

 

Not out of any deference to her or her "safe space," but in order to obtain the best result.

It mystifies me that we still give police officers so much deference regarding how they perform their duties.

 

Shouldn't be a mystery. We don't want to deal with it, so it's easier to let someone else do the dirty work. If we don't like the dirty work, then we can all complain on SJ.com, Facebook, and Twitter, and resume our lives where we actually don't give a damn about what happens to most other people.

 

They are employees of the state, paid their salaries with our tax money.

Whether or not I decided to be a police officer, career-wise, I'm perfectly comfortable and capable with evaluating, as a citizen and a tax payer, whether they are performing their job duties as they should be.

 

Plus, there wouldn't be anyone to video it ... WINNING!