...Since he lacked the sense or the manners to do it before hand, this would have been an excellent opportunity for the officer to act like a decent human being and a competent law enforcement officer and identify himself. I believe that law officers are trained to identify themselves.
She was new to the school. Why would she know who this guy was?
We, the teacher, the administrator, and the teenager all know that this is not a case of mistaken identity - nor has anyone claimed it so. After refusing repeated requests to leave by the teacher, and then by the administrator they called in a uniformed police officer. She would have to be profoundly retarded to be unaware he was a lawful authority.
So let's not be silly. After refusing numerous requests from school authority and then the school police officer, her last act of passive-aggressive defiance was "I don't even know who you are". End of conversation.
[Passive-aggressive behavior is the indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.] (Wiki)
And WTF: now you are claiming that she was fat so he had to heave her out of the seat? I mean: WTF. WTF is wrong with you. Seriously. WTF.
I thought what I claimed was written in plain English. Lets try reading for comprehension again, shall we?
"He moved quickly and forcefully, wrapping an arm around the neck and shoulders, and putting a hand under her thigh/knee to heave her from the seat. Being heavier and more thickly built than he may have anticipated, he changed direction and flips the desk backwards. She is still intertwined with the desk, and seemingly resisting. Fields robustly drags her across the slick classroom floor by her arms and leg dislodging the chair."
Try as I might I didn't find any reference to "being so fat" having "to heave her out of her seat". I did find that he seemingly attempted to FIRST heave her from the seat with both arms (poorly done), THEN flipped the desk backwards to dislodge her. I also noted she is not petite, but thickly built (greater than average), which does not define it as from fat or natural muscle.
There is no WTF about it. His execution was not genteel or executed perfectly. But it was not "brutal" or "extreme violence".
That's hardly IT. You are missing the part where he threw her across the room and dragged her. Even his boss found his behavior indefensible. And fired him.
Sigh. Are folks so desperate to justify their outrage that they must resort to silly exaggeration? I didn't see her being thrown across the room, I saw her being heaved and jerked away from the desk and towards the officer. Anyone who uses the word "throw" knows it means "propel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand." (a synonym being "tossed").
Did you see her leave the floor and fly through the air? Of course not. So she was vigorously heaved...meaning "to lift or haul (a heavy thing) with great effort." such as "she heaved the sofa back into place". Chose another synonym if you like: hauled, lugged, dragged, hefted, or yanked across the floor.
But please, don't be another disingenuous sensationalist or yellow journalist who gives a rats ass about accuracy.
"COLUMBIA, S.C. — A deputy who flipped a disruptive student out of her desk and tossed her across her math class floor was fired on Wednesday."
The sheriff called his actions "unacceptable," and said videos recorded by her classmates show the girl posed no danger to anyone.
"What he should not have done is throw the student," Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. "Police officers make mistakes too. They're human and they need to be held accountable, and that's what we've done with Deputy Ben Fields."
He body slammed her. He dragged her. He THREW her. According to his boss. Who actually watched ALL of the available video recordings.
Having actually seen the video I am not impressed. Clearly the Sheriff is over-reacting and using inflammatory descriptions, most likely because all police departments are now hyper-sensitive to the ever present media race sensationalists and the salivating internet lynch mob. Even the least charitable view of the officer's actions is that his use of force was mildly excessive, a tad reckless, and poorly executed - nothing requiring termination of "the officer of the year" school award winner.
My goodness, you'd a thought she was beaten and kicked, or night sticked and tasered into submission.
As I said, "a nothing incident among 320M people, and 100,000 schools. No night sticking, macing, tasing, or shooting. No kicking or even hitting. Just the sudden application of raw physical force to drag out a student's ass out, that's it. Nothing but a bruised ego."
So what is the REAL problem? The real problem is pathological empathic disordered. We see uncontrollable primate melodrama : a hyper empathized identification with "a weak victim" of the troop (a "young girl" ), the instant knee-jerk hatred of "the other" as a strong authority ("the male primate brute"), and an egg shell thin dainty fear of any sudden physicality as "extreme violence".
WTF. This behavior would have been beyond the ken if the student had been a white football player, although I doubt the officer would have attempted to throw him about the room and drag him around if the student had been near his size.
That behavior would have been unacceptable in ANY situation where there was no danger to other people, which the sheriff who viewed all of the videos and FIRED the officer claimed it was obvious that no one else was in any danger.
The Sheriff is not being logical, he knows that those who resist lawful orders can be arrested with physical force. And it would be warranted for a white football player as well. It might have taken two beefy officers, or the application of taser, but it would be completely warranted. If a student refuses to comply with teachers, administrators, and police officers then the only means left to enforce a rule is physical force. Be it taking a five year by the arm and pulling the child of the room, or wrestling and/or tasering a football player.
The student got what she earned - period.
Sadly, such pathology does not care if she caused it, she earned it, or if it was necessary for any purpose. The mob hysteria even spreads to the FBI as worthy of an official investigation, and the only thing we lack is a Bonfire of the Vanities Reverend Bacon (Al Sharpton) and cynical politicians calling for "Justice" for a bruised and indigent ego of some teen in some school.
The only pathology I see is yours and that of others of your ilk.
You mean, you do not care if she caused it, earned it, or if it was necessary for any purpose. We got that.
People should not be outraged, they should be embarrassed.
People should be outraged and ashamed. Deeply ashamed.
Oh come now. Why don't you (and others) explain how you get an individual to leave a room, house, building, or stadium who refuses to leave? Sweet talk? A gift of cash? Donuts and coffee?
LOL...