Hillary Clinton Says Assault At Spring Valley High Can’t Be Justified

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Hillary Clinton Says Assault At Spring Valley High Can’t Be Justified
"If they’re acting out, there’s a lot of alternatives to picking them up and throwing them on the ground."


Julia Craven


Posted: 11/02/2015 01:04 PM EST



Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters during an event at Clark Atlanta University on Oct. 30.Prince Williams via Getty Images



Hillary Clinton joined SiriusXM’s Joe Madison on Monday to discuss criticism of her criminal justice platform as well as the black teenager who was thrown from her desk by a school resource officer in Columbia, South Carolina, last week.

The Democratic front-runner said she was disturbed by the video of former Spring Valley High School resource officer Ben Fields manhandling a 16-year-old student known only as Shakara.

“The adults in a school should be modeling appropriate behavior to deal with any disciplinary issues that might arise, and that was clearly not the case in the incident we have seen in the school in South Carolina,” she said......................


...........“People in general -- this is not about any particular community -- but people in general right now in our country are turned off by politics. Some of them have given up on politics. They are discouraged or disappointed,” she said. “And I have a big task in front of me to really convince people that it matters who is elected -- what our goals are; what our experiences are; what we want to do to try to empower and enable people from all walks of life to live out their own dreams … So I’m not taking anybody for granted, and I’m not taking any issue for granted.”

Listen to the entire interview:

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-spring-valley_56379082e4b0c66bae5d13ec

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