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malaise

(269,054 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 05:14 PM Sep 2014

Good fugging grief - this security guard should be fired

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/white_school_employees_joke_with_black_student_brings_suspension_investigation.html#incart_most-read
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Twelve-year-old Brandon Pearson, who has Down syndrome, was excited to start the school year Tuesday, his first day at a new school.

Brandon was accompanied on his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Eastwood by his mother, Brandiss Pearson, her husband and her father.

When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.

"Wait, wait, wait, hold on,'' Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon's hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.

"And he starts laughing and says, 'Now take the picture, he's in the right position,' '' Pearson recalled.

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Good fugging grief - this security guard should be fired (Original Post) malaise Sep 2014 OP
the asshole should definitely be fired. spanone Sep 2014 #1
He's not just racist - he's cruel malaise Sep 2014 #2
HE thinks it's tolerated Warpy Sep 2014 #5
RW police blogs, RW radio and TV malaise Sep 2014 #8
He was. whistler162 Sep 2014 #3
Very good news malaise Sep 2014 #4
Yeah that is good news. Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #6
good Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #20
K&R IrishAyes Sep 2014 #7
You know what frightens me malaise Sep 2014 #9
Brain rot. Soul dead. etc. IrishAyes Sep 2014 #11
Exactly. Gormy Cuss Sep 2014 #16
African-Americans are unfeeling nobodies malaise Sep 2014 #17
Where do they find these losers? lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #10
Pitiful excuse for a human being. nt Fla Dem Sep 2014 #12
... and what kind of training do they go through after they're hired? surrealAmerican Sep 2014 #15
Don't you wonder malaise Sep 2014 #18
how ignorant do you have to be NJCher Sep 2014 #13
And he thought this was a joke malaise Sep 2014 #14
Syracuse district fires white school guard Downwinder Sep 2014 #19
Thanks malaise Sep 2014 #21

malaise

(269,054 posts)
2. He's not just racist - he's cruel
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 05:23 PM
Sep 2014

and he dared to do this in the presence of the child's parents and grandparent.
When did America begin to tolerate this shite?

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
5. HE thinks it's tolerated
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 06:00 PM
Sep 2014

because he is reinforced in his cruelty and bigotry by a lot of right wing police blogs out there. You immerse yourself in bullshit, you start believing the world is made exclusively of bullshit and the bullshit consists of clicking everybody who isn't white into the lowest class of Americans and undoubtedly criminal, they'll discover the crime later.

I think the family will sue and raise enough of a stink that the guy will never get another cushy school job as long as he lives. He'll be a junkyard night watchman. Maybe.

Obviously, they've contacted the media. That's the most important step.

I hate stories like this. That asshole makes us all look bad.

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
7. K&R
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 07:12 PM
Sep 2014

I was about to ask if anyone had a link to a petition about that asshat, but glad to see it's already been taken care of. I'm glad at least the kid had his relatives there to protect him.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
9. You know what frightens me
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 07:19 PM
Sep 2014

The fact that he did this in the presence of the child's parents and a grandparent. That takes some breathtaking arrogance and contempt for that African-American family. WTF is going on?

malaise

(269,054 posts)
17. African-Americans are unfeeling nobodies
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:25 PM
Sep 2014

in the minds of these ignorant racist assholes. It's bad enough that he was so insensitive and cruel to the child but this one really pisses me off because of his absolute indifference to the presence of three adults.

surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)
15. ... and what kind of training do they go through after they're hired?
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:13 PM
Sep 2014

Why would a school not teach the security guards how to interact with children?

malaise

(269,054 posts)
18. Don't you wonder
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:28 PM
Sep 2014

if they are terrorizing minority kids in these schools on their carousel to the private prisons.

NJCher

(35,687 posts)
13. how ignorant do you have to be
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 07:31 PM
Sep 2014

to do something like that? I can scarcely fathom the degree of ignorance and insensitivity.

This young man will carry this experience with him all his life. How can someone make up for that? Answer: It can't ever be made up.

This story sickens me. As any parent or person who is in education would know, something like this will affect this child because it is in his formative years.


Cher

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