mardi 27 octobre 2015

Outrage After Officer Throws Student

Well, that's what the headline says, anyway.

So here's the situation. Something happened in a classroom. The teacher tells a girl to leave the room. (Go to principal's office? Article doesn't say.) She refuses. Teacher calls Student Resource Officer. (local cop permanently stationed in school.) Cop tells her to come with him. She refuses. He says he will force her. She still refuses. He tries to physically remove her from the desk. She resists. Before it's over she is yanked violently from the desk, and ends up going across the floor a few feet.

I don't get it. Why the outrage?

Was the cop perfect? Could he have managed the situation with slightly less violence? Maybe. I suppose. I can see telling him, "C'mon, dude. That was a little rough wasn't it?" But outrage? I don't get it. It seems to me that there were no nonviolent alternatives, and that no one was injured.

But CNN seems pretty certain that it was outrageous. It's right there in the headline, and there is no dissenting voice mentioned. No, "but some are defending the officer" quotes.

Am I that far out of touch that this doesn't seem outrageous to me?


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The worst part seems to me that there will almost certainly be some sort of legal escalation. They'll end up charging the girl with resisting arrest or something, and she'll end up with a criminal record. Back in an earlier day, there would have been no need to call a cop. A male teacher would have done the deed himself, and when someone said that the teacher told her to leave and she refused, everyone would say that, of course the teacher should have dumped her from the desk.


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