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sheshe2

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32. I will put my money on most of them being wife beaters.

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:52 AM

Oct 2015

It is fucking power they want. Power to enforce and the power to kill.

I posted an OP the other night. I posted then went back and watched the videos at the end. I felt sick, I was eating dinner. I wanted to throw up. The brutality made me sick.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prosecution-police-killings_562e26aee4b0ec0a3894eb23

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The bad news first... [View all] Number23 Oct 2015 OP

Sadly, from what I understand he'll face no personal liability to her Scootaloo Oct 2015 #1

After watching the video of him throwing her, there was no way, imo... Spazito Oct 2015 #2

I am GENUINELY surprised that her spine or neck were not broken Number23 Oct 2015 #6

She was already traumatized by her mother's death no doubt... Spazito Oct 2015 #11

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #35

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #39

Surely, she has a case against the school, and possibly the PD. And surely they will drop any & all Tarheel_Dem Oct 2015 #3

Just talking about this makes me so upset that I want to scream Number23 Oct 2015 #7

Thank You! I have been saying tishaLA Oct 2015 #24

It is amazing her neck KT2000 Oct 2015 #4

I don't like cell phones in class but so glad they are there to record this crap. uppityperson Oct 2015 #5

If not for the phones, this would have been yet ANOTHER case of he said/she said Number23 Oct 2015 #8

I teach teens, and this whole story horrifies me. Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #9

Thank you. Iris Oct 2015 #19

((hug)) Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #23

Me, too. Facebook as well. I can find like-minded easily on Twitter. Iris Oct 2015 #42

Teacher here also. roody Oct 2015 #22

+1 Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #25

Starry, I don't see how in the world it's possible that the teacher DIDN'T know she had lost Number23 Oct 2015 #26

I can't imagine not knowing that. Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #31

When you read that humans are still in "adolescence" until their 30s, no wonder when we're teens Number23 Oct 2015 #47

An orphan who recently lost her mother Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #10

"This man should at least be on charges of child abuse." I agree completely Number23 Oct 2015 #12

Yeah, I had to walk away from this Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #14

A vicious attack on a young woman. sheshe2 Oct 2015 #13

Me too. There was no reason for anything like that. bravenak Oct 2015 #15

I don't blame her. sheshe2 Oct 2015 #16

I require no reasons to feel sorry for her. Half-Century Man Oct 2015 #17

I co-sign every single word of this post. Number23 Oct 2015 #27

I agree with every word I've read in this thread to this point and Hortensis Oct 2015 #44

I like the idea of empowering the other kids in that class. Number23 Oct 2015 #46

It was a horror, wasn't it? Hortensis Oct 2015 #48

More sheshe2 Oct 2015 #18

Is it REALLY that goddamned hard to hire decent police officers in this country???! Number23 Oct 2015 #28

there was a court case on how it was ok to bar people from being cops if they were "too smart" JI7 Oct 2015 #29

Sweet Lord in Heaven... Number23 Oct 2015 #30

I will put my money on most of them being wife beaters. sheshe2 Oct 2015 #32

For sure, sheshe2. Read some stats Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #37

Like I said, DREGS. We are being prtotected by DREGS Number23 Oct 2015 #45

Horrifying statistics. sheshe2 Oct 2015 #49

no matter if they find a "decent" cop, cops do not belong in school... ellenrr Oct 2015 #60

Thank you for this report, 23. Poor thing lost her mother and now this.. what some Cha Oct 2015 #20

Has anyone besides New York Daily News reported the part about her losing her mother? Iris Oct 2015 #21

I'm pretty pissed that the second girl vanlassie Oct 2015 #33

I believe there are monsters among us n/t JustAnotherGen Oct 2015 #34

Indeed! With the history of slave Kind of Blue Oct 2015 #38

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #40

he had a history of abuse, the kids called him Officer slam. ellenrr Oct 2015 #36

Yet people argue that the child holds equal (or even more) responsibility for this horrific scene. Iris Oct 2015 #43

only an idiot could argue that - plus this event, horrendous as it is for this child and for the ellenrr Oct 2015 #59

It seems so clear to me. Iris Oct 2015 #61

He could have broken her neck! mcar Oct 2015 #41

Kick for visability! sheshe2 Oct 2015 #50

Just the simple fact that she had just lost her mother & giftedgirl77 Oct 2015 #51

Hey gg!! Number23 Oct 2015 #53

Thanks 23, solitary sucks. giftedgirl77 Oct 2015 #55

how could anyone doubt she was injured? The video is horrific. That troglodyte lunamagica Oct 2015 #52

Exactly. Even if they had been the exact same shape and size, the way he twisted her out of that Number23 Oct 2015 #54

Yeah, and some of his best friends are black, I'm sure lunamagica Oct 2015 #56

Update: The child's mother is not dead. Iris Oct 2015 #57

Thanks for that, Iris. Why did the girl's lawyer report that she was??? Number23 Oct 2015 #58

I'm not sure. He might have been misquoted. Iris Oct 2015 #62

The lawyer called Joe Madison's show yesterday BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #63

Well damn! How the hell does someone "misunderstand" something like that?? Either someone is alive Number23 Oct 2015 #64

I don't know how much of it came directly from him BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #65