Feds probing videotaped arrest of disruptive student
Source: AP
By MEG KINNARD
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Justice Department opened a civil rights probe Tuesday into the arrest of a student who refused to leave her high school math class, after a deputy was recorded flipping the girl backward in her desk and tossing her across the classroom floor.
Federal help was sought by Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, who placed Senior Deputy Ben Fields on leave after the confrontation at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
"It's very disturbing what happened today. It's something I have to deal with and that's what we're going to be doing," Lott said by telephone Monday.
The sheriff's department said no one was hurt during the confrontation, which prompted outrage after several students recorded part of it and shared the video. One student said it all started when the girl pulled out her cellphone and refused her math teacher's request to hand it over during class.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/77e7595e5d3c4c678212fd21f1036776/sheriff-seeks-information-officer-student-confrontation
= new reply since forum marked as read
because to them, black children are little, non-sentient animals. Basically, not Human. They have historically depicted us as animals over the centuries, most often as monkeys, but also our children as "coon alligator bait".
