The biggest takeaway should be that Lott said that both girls, including the one arrested for filming, would still be getting charged with “disturbing the school.”

You’re describing an SRO being there to intervene in a crime, which is the function Mabel suggested SRO’s should serve. But you’re offering it up as a counterpoint because?

Both the teacher and the school administrator who were in the room, as well as one of the students who filmed the altercation were interviewed by the police and said that they believed Fields “acted appropriately, and that he didn’t use excessive force and he did what was necessary,” Lott said.

Ummmmm, whaaaaa the fuck??? I’m sorry, I’ve been to school with really, REALLY shitty kids. Like, the kind that bring knives and hard core pornography to school, who beat up other kids for kicks and assault the adults who stop them. Somehow my school managed just fine without cops on the premises, or even needing to…

That was wonderful. Thank you for this interview.

And my sympathy for you thinking checking a cellphone is a criminal offense and justifies child abuse is even less than that.

I agree. Calling the cops for a minor pissy moment in the classroom is nonsense. The school to prison pipeline is wrong, wrong, wrong. The zero tolerance business is also nonsense, getting students suspended over making finger guns at the age of six. What a pile of nonsense.

Ha! If you think kids in private school are any better behaved you are sorely mistaken. Teens are teens, in fact the kids at my private school probably behaved worse than at the public school in my town.

I’m from the UK (but live in the US) and the idea of calling a cop to a classroom because of anything other than imminent harm/violence is baffling to me. I get that teachers have a hard time with disruption but it’s part of their job. It’s not the job of a policeman to use force in that situation.

Having a fucking phone out is not “disruptive”. And it certainly doesn’t justify a fully-grown Neanderthal assaulting a female minor. Calling the Neanderthal in because a child had a phone out was ultimately far more disruptive than simply continuing the lesson. I’m more concerned about tax dollars funding this…

“Just follow the rules.” Right, because all other teenagers across America didn’t make it on the news yesterday since they’re just “following the rules.” At every given moment in any given high school in America, a teenager is not following the rules. Because they’re teenagers.

Are you kidding? She refused the teachers instructions to put the fucking phone away. She had her phone out in class.

Exactly what all the racist fucks are saying online right now. And I’m sorry, yes, racism is the only explanation here. I don’t know how else to explain the inhumanity of thinking it’s okay for a 300 pound man to beat a little girl for mere disobedience in school. There’s no way any of these assholes would be okay…

Dude have you ever met / been an actual teenager.

I mean it is really tough rationalizing the assault of a teenage girl but you somehow managed to do it. Bravo!

I have heard that people in a weakened state such as suffering from mental illness or addiction, or even just being a child are more susceptible to becoming possessed. There’s a strangeness to these stories that, although anyone who knows an addict can tell you some fucked up things...there’s something sinister, as…

I know - I saw her land on her head/neck and flinched. I’m glad she seems to be ok. This asshole should have been arrested on the spot. Wearing a badge doesn’t give you the right to just fly off the handle at someone like that. That is assault. If any other human on earth committed that, it would be considered…

Well that’s just lucky, he could have killed her with that kind of physical attack. This is a case of ferocious aggravated assault against a minor. The cop needs to do hard time. If it were my kid he would already be in traction.

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I was so glad when banks were required to stop doing that and give you an opt out from automatically covering fees.