Clinton: ‘No Excuse’ For Violent South Carolina High School Arrest

Officer Fields will not be back at any school pending the results of an investigation.

James T. McLawhorn Jr., the chief executive of the Columbia Urban League and a member of that task force, said that over the last generation, as the schools gradually shifted away from being mostly white, residents failed to grasp how the approach to discipline was also changing. And it has produced disgusting outcomes.

The officer has been told not to return to school during the investigation and has been placed on administrative leave by the Sheriff’s Department.

On Tuesday, we followed Officer Mark Deeds, one of four resource officers in the Ozark School District.

“The videos show the officer standing over a student, seated at her desk”.

In the story of the South Carolina girl, however, things are being done. But he calls the video “disturbing”.

But sometimes, it’s not until a shocking incident like the viral video this week that school administrators are forced to take a hard look at how they are relying on police, Mr. Trump says. “I could see where it could be hard if it were a larger school and the student body doesn’t know the officer…” That’s not the situation that officers serving in schools are trained to face. At the secondary school level, students with disabilities are twice as likely to be suspended as their non-disabled peers, per a 2015 report from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Cops are at a school in the event a crime is being committed”, he said. There’s no excuse, they say, for a law enforcement officer to act that way against a student who hasn’t harmed or threatened anyone. But data from individual districts cited by Nance shows that such referrals skyrocketed in the early 2000s. And while a few students have called the deputy overly rough or racist, others, of all races, defend his record in the school – if not his behavior on the videos.

The only one who the teacher wouldn’t make eye contact with when discussing slavery, the only one who challenged my teachers on their lessons regarding the Black Panthers, the only one who held the school board accountable for a more inclusive history curriculum.

The Spring Valley High School video feels extraordinary to watch, but the incident it documents is unfortunately all too ordinary.

No one was injured, according to the sheriff’s department.

The deputy also detained a second student, Niya Kenny, 18, who told a local television station that her only offense was objecting to his treatment of the other girl. The incident raised the issue of Muslims being profiled. That charge is based on a broad South Carolina law originally meant to protect against loiterers and intruders, but it has been used more against students in recent decades.

“I ran for the school board during the last election”, Harmon said.

“Officers are allowed to use force slightly higher than the force they’re being met with”, said Mendez.

NASRO recommends that, at a minimum, school-resource officers (SROs) be officers who receive “specialized SRO training in the use of police powers and authority in a school environment”. The girl didn’t move from her desk or appear to be a physical threat to anyone when she was slammed to the ground.

We must move toward the goal of removing police from schools. “But it did accelerate it and perhaps, even more so, justified it”.

“I don’t think the environment in District 2 was of such a nature that anything like this was brewing”, he said. Meanwhile, many segregated districts that serve the most marginalized youth of color remain starved for cash. The severe penalties meted out to “failing” schools in the high-stakes testing era creates another unsavory incentive to remove low-performing children. “From social media and the whole bit we get the sensationalized news about this one event that really continues to reify and reinforce often stereotypes about police and, particularly, African Americans”. From mandatory drug testing for athletes to warrantless locker searches, schools have in many totally non-hyperbolic senses become police states.

At least 17 states have broad laws about disturbing school activities, though several of them do not apply to students.

Mendez also says his school resource officers only turn to force if there’s a potentially unsafe situation. Citations had already declined from 11,698 in 2009-10 to 3,499 in 2013-2014, according to the LA Times.