Remember the good old days when violence in our schools was caused by students?
Luckily, this was caught on camera. Of course, the girl who took the video was also arrested, as was the mom when she demanded the guard be arrested for battery. When is this kind of shit going to end?
Who will guard us from the guards? Here’s a list of an assortment of police and guard assaults from around the country.
Most articles like this show “black” “inner city” or “poor white trash” and the usual innuendo from Fox News and the radio talk shows is “the video did not capture the what started it and if you saw the whole thing your opinion would go the with the authority explanation. But back here in the low population (mostly white) state of Maine this stuff goes on all the time. Two police shootings in one week. One of which an 18 year old died of 3 shots to chest and undisclosed number to the head by a part time cop as he was trying to run away through the woods. This was on a “suspected erratic driving stop” and the dead kid was in the back seat, not the driver. The reason I am writing is because I personally was involved in a similar situation in the very rich and overly policed town of Hingham Massachusetts. I survived and was not thrown in jail only because I am a white 62 year old retired Sr. Principle Electronic Engineer. when I got the “in your face bullying, I had enough world experience not to retaliate and backed away. This same police SUV, with the all around tinted windows, still follows me when I visit my 99-year-old mother.
Don’t think it cant happen to you.
#21….kind of hard to say bad things about Fox’s coverage when this video comes from a Fox station.
In fact….my original thought was….this can’t be true…it’s reported on a Fox station….and so many of the commentors on this blog swear that you can’t believe anything you see on Fox. Ooooops!!!!!!
#21, joshua,
There are other sources out there as well as FOX Spews. If you do google the story, you will find even more damning coverage than what FOX gave.
I watched the video and this was all very fishy. The story does not make sense, something more must be involved.
I think the “victim”‘s family is lying or concealing something important.
I like how rent-a-cop #2 is trying to screen rent-a-cop #1′s actions from the camera…
Why did #2 think that was an important thing to do, under the circumstances?
Why isn’t #2 more concerned with covering #1′s back, in a potentially-hostile crowd?
#25
Because rent-a-cowboy-cop #2 is an idiot like rent-a-cowboy-cop #1. He probably thought to himself, “this could turn ugly, I’ll block the cameras like they do on tv.”
All I can say about this is What The F@ck. I mean What The F@ck.
PS: also, did anyone else notice how poorly done the news story was, and how they kept on cutting off all of the people they interviewed? i mean wow people, I could do a better freaking collaboration of clips than whatever retarded mongoose they hired.
#24, hmeyers,
I watched the video and this was all very fishy. The story does not make sense, something more must be involved.
I think the “victim”’s family is lying or concealing something important.
And your evidence is, …
She is a black ho. Her friends are black. Her mother is a black ho. The broken wrist is the girl’s own fault for being black. Therefore they are all guilty.
Regardless if the child was calling the ADULT MAN names, if she dropped the cake on accident or purpose, that guard had no right to twist her arm and hold her down. He had no right to put his hands on her, period.
This is a case where the guard did not ‘think’ in a school where he should have been thinking.
He should have documented was the child did if she really called names or was being disrespectful and file a report with the head of the school.
They then would have suspended the student.
There would have been nothing caught on cam.
I am in my 40s. I worked a maximum security for youth in my young 20s and I never had to put my hands on any of them but one, which was in the middle of the night, when the administrator was present and two other guards were present. The 17 year old kid (male) told the administrator he was gonna bite the admin’s nose off and spit it back in his face. Then the decision was made to return the kid to his cell, which he refused and I had to take down per instruction of the administrator.
For that guard to react that way even if the kid is guilty, shows he lacks training, doesn’t like himself, has a low opinion of himself, takes serious what school age kids say (other then the gonna get a gun and kill people saying).
She did not put her hands on him and he should not have done it back.
Cake was dropped, there are other means then dropping her on the table and holding her down. School is not prison.
Regardless of what happened..The Security guard had no legal right to lay hands on a minor. Things that were said were heat of the moment, and shouldnt be even considered. Of Course we werent there during the incident and there may be more to the story, but the actions of the Authorities was way out of line …………
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Was the right video posted? I saw nothing that exonerated the girl.
Comment by Jerk-Face — 9/29/2007 @ 9:39 am
Where exactly is the evidence that condemns her?
Whether she accidentally dropped it or threw it on the floor in a fit of rage what right does the security guard have to detain her? From the other news reports I’ve seen she attempted to clean the cake up, to the security guard’s satisfaction, three different times and when she attempted to walk away he decided that she’d committed some type of inexcusable offense that warranted her being manhandled.
It now appears she may not have been injured at all.
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Every time people like this or Al Sharpton or Tennie Pierce “cry racism” when there is none , it cheapens the memory of those who fought and died to defeat real racism. How dare they compare their obvious grab for money with the blood, sweat and tears shed by like great men like Martin Luther King. How dare they.