Asked about the discrepancy, Lott said officers at the scene and school administrators hadn’t told him about any injuries, and “what she had once she obtained an attorney is a different matter”.
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“We’re going to handle it appropriately and we’re going to handle it very quickly”.
“Literally, it just makes you sick to your stomach when you see that initial video”.
The videos of the confrontation between a white officer and black girl stirred such outrage that Lott called the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department for help.
It went on to say that since the incident is still being investigated, Fields himself would not comment.
“To my knowledge, she wasn’t injured whatsoever”, Lott said.
It is believed that the 16-year-old girl hit the officer in self-defence, while he tried to remove her from the class.
The sheriff said: “What he should not have done is throw the student”.
Email, phone and text messages for Fields were not returned. “When classrooms are disrupted by a student, then the teacher can not perform his/her job and other students can not learn”, he said, concluding that the event “should be used as a learning opportunity for us all to move forward in a positive way”. When should a police officer come in, and what action should a police officer take?
Rutherford said if an officer had done that to an animal, he would be in jail. “We are sick and exhausted of black women being abused”.
“You don’t go in there aggressive like that”, Koers said.
A second student who verbally objected to the girl’s treatment was also arrested. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US attorney’s office are looking into whether the student’s civil rights were violated. Her refusal to comply prompted Fields to violently flip over her chair and throw her across the floor before applying handcuffs. “When one element fails then the process of educating our students fail”, said Lott. “It doesn’t affect white students”, Randolph said.
According to news reports, “the girl’s arm is in a cast, she has a rug burn on her forehead and has pain in her neck and back”.
“I was [once] a teacher and I remember their mouths – I know the students have a whole day to sit down and think of something negative to say, but you’re supposed to be the adult”, the singer told The Huffington Post.
Classmates were quick to use there own phones to video the conflict. The community will continue to be strong going forward, he said. But I also was appalled by the behavior of this high school student. He said the deputies have to receive more training and certification.
Indeed, many students insist Fields’ reputation proceeded his arrival on the scene of the incident, adding that the hulking lawmen is widely known among the student body as “Officer Slam”, presumably based on previous encounters with students.
“If a student disturbs school – and that’s a wide range of activities, “disturbing schools” – they can be arrested”.
“Kids are not criminals, by the way”.
Mostly, SROs don’t deal with emergencies, says Bridges, but problems that do demand attention.
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Don Bridges, a Baltimore County police officer and First VP for the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO), has a different take on the footage from the South Carolina schoolroom.
