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In reply to the discussion: "She's a child!" [View all]adigal
(7,581 posts)123. You are making huge leaps in logic here
Because the teacher called the principal on a non-compliant student, the teacher began funneling the student into the prison system???
Maybe, the teacher wanted the student to give him her cell phone, in compliance with student regulations, and was hoping bringing in the principal would end the situation. The cop wasn't called right away. Stop blaming the teacher for calling the cop in. It's hard to take your argument seriously when you are changing the facts to fit your thesis. And since when are rules optional in high schools? Can you imagine 3000 teens in a school, all of them defying rules they don't like?? Total chaos. And then you would probably blame the teachers for being ineffective.
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The teacher wasn't the one who called the principal, please, people, read the story!!!
adigal
Oct 2015
#17
The teacher was well aware of what he had set in motion -- because it was procedure
Hortensis
Oct 2015
#53
Yeah but didn't the teacher and principal come out in support of the violent cop's actions?
brush
Oct 2015
#109
Chemisse, unlike you, I do not have the skills to handle kids like this. But
Hortensis
Oct 2015
#117
I know for a fact that kids I send to the office are not going to be brutalized.
Chemisse
Oct 2015
#126
And the invective directed at me, is (a) that blind or is a well reasoned measured response.
AlbertCat
Oct 2015
#79
True, I don't care how old she was, nobody deserves to be assualted for simply refusing to get out
Live and Learn
Oct 2015
#98
If she were 18, he would still have the higher responsibility of acting like an adult.
Gormy Cuss
Oct 2015
#19
And it was you, marym625m, who brought it here, and who has brought so much other good to DU.
Scuba
Oct 2015
#6
RACIST AMERICA!! That's why. This would have NEVER happened to a young white girl.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Oct 2015
#7
I forgot who brought it up, Black kids aren't seen as kids, even when they're 3-year-olds
MisterP
Oct 2015
#13
That sheriff is not only not going to follow up on criminal charges on the violent cop . . .
brush
Oct 2015
#112
sorry but violent crimes against a harmless child is worthy of jail in my book
marym625
Oct 2015
#141
mine, too. First, the video of the violence done to that child, 2nd - the image of the young man
Iris
Oct 2015
#60
Agreed, the guy needs help but first, he and society need to admit he needs it and
Live and Learn
Oct 2015
#94
Everyone at that school needs to be supported in their efforts to get over Officer Slam
fasttense
Oct 2015
#29
Just saw a picture on TV of him slammin a vet on the concrete while investigating a noise complaint.
classykaren
Oct 2015
#42
The guy in the video brings up an important point that I had wondered about.
freedom fighter jh
Oct 2015
#65
she is also a child (legally) who has recently lost her mother, and is in foster care.
niyad
Oct 2015
#69
She was, at worst, being obnoxious (like teens and early 20's are apt to be).
Live and Learn
Oct 2015
#91
Link below - you might not agree with him on everything, but he is interesting to listen to.
Lochloosa
Oct 2015
#115