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Omaha Steve

(99,062 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:19 PM Oct 2015

The Latest: NAACP, school district to talk about officer

Source: AP

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Here are the latest developments in the confrontation between a South Carolina deputy and a student recorded on cellphone video (all times local):

1:10 p.m.

The NAACP and a local school district are holding separate news conferences to address the media after a school resource officer was captured on video pulling a female high school student from her desk and dragging her across a classroom.

South Carolina NAACP officials say they will address reporters at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at their offices in downtown Columbia.

School district officials planned to address the media at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

FULL story at link.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/599b1c8f71bc4880a70e1e8fe19b9abf/latest-sheriff-parents-group-call-federal-probe

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The Latest: NAACP, school district to talk about officer (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2015 OP
That wasn't "pulling a female high school student from her desk" BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #1
You are absolutely correct. HeartoftheMidwest Oct 2015 #2
"It's also rather telling that most of the students in class froze" BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #3
Absolutely......heartbreakingly.......accurate. HeartoftheMidwest Oct 2015 #5
Kudos to Miss Niya Kenny.... HeartoftheMidwest Oct 2015 #4
"It won't remove the PTSD" BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #6
Yes, I can see that now. HeartoftheMidwest Oct 2015 #7
I think the one good thing about social media BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #8

BumRushDaShow

(127,297 posts)
1. That wasn't "pulling a female high school student from her desk"
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:59 PM
Oct 2015

That was lifting the girl while still sitting at the desk, flipping both her and the desk over, upside-down, and slamming them both to the floor, and against a wall, while simultaneously making sure another terrified student sitting at a desk close to the altercation, got some of the force of the slam. Then what was left of her and the desk were dragged away.

The fact that the students initially sat there like zombies is testament to the type of treatment that racist fucks have publicly deployed on us for centuries back to the days of the public maimings and lynchings in order to instill fear and authority. So yet another generation of our black children have the privilege of experiencing it first hand so they can warn their own children of what to expect in the future.

HeartoftheMidwest

(309 posts)
2. You are absolutely correct.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:24 PM
Oct 2015

And the young lady offered ABSOLUTELY no resistance, nothing verbal or physical, she merely sat there. That young woman, new to her school and by all accounts a "very quiet individual," has been terrorized and traumatized, something she will NEVER forget. All because she was on her cell phone? Reminds me of Mr. Garner's case: extreme police over-reaction and escalation of a very minor infraction. I am relieved that the young woman wasn't more seriously hurt...or killed.

Am also very concerned about the young classmate who voiced objection to the young woman's treatment by the over-aggressive cop....and the young classmate was also arrested??? What's her story?? ( I think reports are that the second arrestee was also female? ) Hopefully all charges will be dropped for both girls, and a full investigation by outside ( non-Carolinian groups ) of the school and police force will be carried out.

It's also rather telling that most of the students in class froze, instead of standing up and yelling at Officer Fields to stop. Seems those kids are used to that type of police abuse. That should not happen.

Let's keep bringing these abuses to the light. Thank goodness for cell phone cameras, and the courage to record what has previously been hidden.

BumRushDaShow

(127,297 posts)
3. "It's also rather telling that most of the students in class froze"
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:32 PM
Oct 2015

Survival tactic. It's part of "the talk".

HeartoftheMidwest

(309 posts)
4. Kudos to Miss Niya Kenny....
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:33 PM
Oct 2015

....for standing up for her classmate. Here's to a quick dismissal of all charges, public apologies by law enforcement and the school administration, and a big, fat settlement from the lawsuits. It won't remove the PTSD both girls will feel for the rest of their lives, but hopefully it will make the schools revise their policies.

"Post-racial America" my .

BumRushDaShow

(127,297 posts)
6. "It won't remove the PTSD"
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 02:43 PM
Oct 2015

For many of us in the black community, the "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" factor tends to apply. That's why we're still here centuries later after experiencing abuse far far worse than this... and without the benefit of large amounts of immigrants from the African continent to supplement our numbers.

HeartoftheMidwest

(309 posts)
7. Yes, I can see that now.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:39 PM
Oct 2015

The advent of cell phone video just shows the wider American community a glimpse of the savage reality black folks/non-WASP Americas have known for centuries....but nowhere near the deep, institutional & cultural damage done to black lives.

Eddie Murphy had that great skit about "White Folks When Black Folks Aren't Around." I would LOVE to see a website offering the OTHER side of reality, where people could submit videos of their everyday encounters of racism and bigotry. The eyes or facial features of the offenders could even be pixilated out, to prevent legal entanglements, and those of us who grew up in the state of privilege could see the everyday indignities and outrages other people have to live with. It might provoke a sea change in the national attitude, and wake folks up.

BumRushDaShow

(127,297 posts)
8. I think the one good thing about social media
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:02 PM
Oct 2015

and the immediacy of the internet, is that there is much more exposure to different cultures available out there that previously could only be had by traveling to different places or having "pen pals" in another country or through schools with special cultural exchange programs. And it really has offered a sea-change for the young folks to be able to interact with others and counter some of the generational reinforcement of bigotry. Of course the flip side is that the young are also often gullible, and can be fed alot more bigotry from outside of their microcosms, using the same social media.

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