Saturday, March 16, 2019

here's a portion of your daily thin blue line series and there is a video at the link should you wish for more fun;


A school police officer is under investigation this week after a video was published online, showing him grabbing a small teen girl, half his size, and slamming her into the ground. The video, which was taken on Friday, has since gone viral.
According to police, the video shows the aftermath of an incident that unfolded on Friday at Cedar Ridge High School. Police said the girl in the video was seen in a separate video fighting with another student on a bus.
In that separate video, the fight is broken up by the assistant principal without issue.
As the video below shows, however, there did not appear to be any fighting going on when the officer grabbed the girl around her neck and slammed her into the concrete. While the girl certainly deserved to be disciplined for what the video on the bus shows, the officer’s use of force appeared to be entirely over the top.
Deborah Fowler, the executive director at the Austin-based nonprofit Texas Appleseed, a group that promotes social and economic justice for all Texans, agrees.
“From the video, it’s very hard to see what the justification might have been for taking the student down to the ground the way that she was,” Fowler told WALB.
After the officer slammed the girl to the ground, she was then taken into custody for the incident which took place on the bus earlier.
After the video began to go viral, the school’s principal released a statement saying, “My administrative team, along with district leaders, is working with Round Rock police to fully review the situation, what led up to it and how it was handled.”
The Round Rock police department also responded to the video, noting that the officer’s use of force will face scrutiny...........https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/cop-grabs-small-school-girl-around-her-neck-slams-her-into-the-concrete/243313

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