In exploring the incident in Columbia, South Carolina that caused Deputy Ben Fields to be fired for what appears to be nothing more than a use of force within the reasonable exercise of professional police discretion, a number of misconceptions that support the black grievance industry, the “Black Lives Matter” scam and the “social justice” scam were evident. Consider this from a local ACLU flack:
‘There is no justification whatsoever for treating a child like this,’ said Victoria Middleton, executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina. ‘Regardless of the reason for the officer’s actions, such egregious use of force – against young people who are sitting in their classrooms – is outrageous. School should be a place to learn and grow, not a place to be brutalized.
Middleton, and many like her, are either incredibly uninformed about human nature, or are willing to entirely ignore reality in favor of the pursuit of their political goals. The reality? Children, and particularly high school aged kids, are not helpless, harmless little angels. Not only are they capable of causing serious injury, even death, to adults, they often do just that, as in this example from The Sacramento Bee:
Three Florin High School students were taken to juvenile hall after a wild fight in which the school’s principal was body-slammed.
The chaotic scene played out during lunchtime Monday on the south-area campus.
A fight broke out, drawing a school resource police officer, a school official and Principal Don Ross. Students gathered around, at least one recording the melee on a cellphone, as officials tried to break up the fight.
After trying to restrain a tall student, Ross was thrown to the floor. Undeterred, Ross got back up and tried to prevent the student from fighting again.
According to the story, Ross was not “badly hurt.” By all means, take the link and view the video. He’s lucky.
Sacramento County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Tony Turnbull said that two 15-year-olds and a 13-year-old were arrested. Two were charged with suspicion of battery on school staff causing injury and the third was arrested for making threats toward other students and law enforcement.
Consider too, this ugly situation from Fort Worth, TX, via the local CBS affiliate:
Neighbors in a historic Southside Fort Worth block say the pranks and antics of children there have turned dangerous.
They claim a group of elementary school-aged children are wreaking havoc. They are accused of throwing rocks and onions at cars, taking bikes from front yards, and most recently setting garbage on fire.
Homeowner Maria Luna says her 6-year-old son Jessie won’t sleep in his room alone most nights.
‘Every night he’s like, ‘Oh they’re coming, Oh, I hear them!,’ she says.
The kids her child fears are just a few years older than he is. Neighbors describe them as a group of elementary school kids between the ages of 8 and 12.
You can still see the burn mark left on Luna’s property from when she says the kids set her garbage on fire. The homeowner has security camera video of the incident. While you can’t see the flames, the video shows children running away.
‘There were adults with them. You can see a lady with a stroller,’ Luna explains.
And consider this report from Allentown, PA, where multiple “children” attacked a female police officer.
Two more juveniles were arrested Friday as a result of Thursday’s melee outside William Allen high School that injured four Allentown police officers, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said.
Three youths were arrested Thursday following the fighting.
Martin said the five face charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and riot. He said more arrests may be made for failing to disperse.
Martin said one of the officers trying to break up the fighting was diagnosed with a concussion and another one, the female officer seen being knocked down in a video posted on Facebook, may have also suffered a concussion.
Two other officers were injured in the fighting but were treated and are back at work Friday, he said.
Oh, but it must have been a mistake or misunderstanding! We all know there is no excuse for using force against school children!
The large groups split up into several different groups,’ Lake said. ‘Officers found themselves responding to several areas.’ As officers tried to pull the fighters apart, some of the boys and girls turned on the officers, he said.
A video posted on Facebook shows one officer overwhelmed at 12th and Chew streets. In the video, the officer appears to be knocked down by a girl and then attacked again as she chases the girl.
On Friday, Allentown police provided more details. Police said as officers were attempting to break up the fight, a female juvenile grabbed a female officer by her hair and pulled her to the ground. As the female juvenile was being taken into custody, she punched the officer in the face and the officer went down to the ground where the assault continued, police said.
They were surrounded by a large group of juveniles who also became actively involved in the assault before the female juvenile was taken into custody.
Obviously, police officers and school officials must always use only the force necessary and reasonable in dealings with students. However, there is no question that kids, particularly older kids, can be just as dangerous and deadly as adults. They are also often more prone to violence, lacking adult experience and self-restraint.
I wonder if the usual suspects would want the injured Allentown officers to be fired, just as Deputy Fields was? It would certainly be consistent.
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I think that the response of many to seeing police use of force is the result of years of social conditioning in the public (and parochial) schools. Children are taught over and over “violence is never the answer”. A few months back, a young man on the DC Metro train was butchered by an 18 year old thug who had been released from jail the day before. The really horrifying thing, at least in my judgment, was that none of the passengers did anything over a 15 minute time frame. In fact, when the thug was done, he threatened them and they all (15-20 passengers) meekly handed over their wallets and cell phones. During the last mass shooting in Oregon, most of the students complied with the maniac’s orders to lie on the ground, even when it was apparent that they were going to be shot when he reached them.
I think we can contrast these to the heroic actions of the American servicemen in France who rushed the Muslim would be mass shooter, and Mr. Mintz, who tried to block the Oregon shooter and took numerous shots in the process.
At some point, our cultural relativism has left many unable to distinguish between force, which is sometimes necessary, and violence, which is always to be condemned. Idiotic statements such as saying that “violence has no place in school” or :school should be a place to learn and grow” sound more like something Barney the dinosaur would say rather than a presidential candidate. Anyone with half a brain knows that force is sometimes necessary in school or anywhere and it is a deep dark shame that all too many Americans do not understand this.
At one time, men were taught to protect the innocent……and they had other expectations as well, such as to accept conscription into the military when called, etc. Today they are told in the “shooter drills” at my school (and probably in yours) by people who know better to run and hide in a closet until an authority figure “saves” them.
Regarding the Columbia incident, one thing I noticed in all of the news reports is that they only showed the video of it. The only sound was from the talking heads yammering incessantly like they do. I did a quick search and found the raw video on YouTube and I now understand why. The room was dead silent until the girl was yanked out of her chair.
My wife (elementary school teacher for the last 24 years) watched the video with me and noted that since the other kids were sitting and watching quietly, every one of them knew this was coming. Having taught in the past at a school in a less-than-savory part of town, she has had to deal with this type of situation before. Back then, they didn’t always have an SRO on hand but they did have a dean who was built like a linebacker and was from the same neighborhood as a lot of the kids. He handled most of the violent disciplinary actions. As a result, parents couldn’t just avoid responsibility for poor parenting by throwing down the race card every time their “precious little angel” had to be physically restrained and removed from the classroom for being a violent, foul-mouthed little a-hole.
He did what needed to be done. The only mistake made by the officer as well as the other adults in the room was not clearing everyone else out before taking the little brat down.
I am a product of a Catholic boys highschool. We were taught by Jesuits. My freshman year there was a big kid in an early morning algebra class who was always in trouble. This kid was sleeping and Brother Ivo walked around the class lecturing while gathering up everyone’s math books. He took this large stack of books over to the sleeping kid and dropped them on his head. Kid of course wakes up instantly and calls Brother Ivo a f’en ahole before he realized who he was saying that to. Well Ivo picked the kid and the desk up and slammed it into the block wall. Desk just exploded, kid is bloody and dazed, Ivo grabs him by the collar and drags him down to the office. Result was kid being suspended for 3 days and spending 3 months in after school detention. He went on to graduate in the top of the class and as far as I know never caused another problem in class. This was in 1974. Boy have times changed.
Deputy Fields should have known after the McKinney TX pool party to refuse to do his job. Let the scrawny black teacher, or counselor, or principal, whatever he was, handle it. I would have told him, “Your circus, your monkeys.”.
The students staged a school walkout to support Officer Fields and think that Officer Fields should return to the school.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/10/30/student-walkout-backs-fired-deputy-sc-school/74874920/
I don’t get why he was fired. Folding like a cheap suit is so pathetic. The best thing to do with radicals is ignore them. Appeasement is the worst strategy.
Dear BillDes:
I was surprised, even in this day and age, at the absolute surrender before any real pressure was applied, even though so doing, sets up every public entity involved for massive, extortionate pay outs.
Posted on my Facebook page with the following comment:
“This is why we can accuse the news media of actively suppressing real news. Most “journalists” vote Democrat. “
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One of the great things about this story is that many of the students are
now supporting the cop. Many (or most) of these kids are black. This
gives me hope. Every time someone farts, everyone starts recording
video on their cell phones. I understand that at least one of the
kids started their video early. This showed the girl punching the cop
before he threw her ass around like a rag doll.
There is an interesting dynamic in the black community. To crack the
books and actually want to learn something, brands someone as a
race traitor, someone who is condemned as “Acting white.” These
kids are handicapped by the verbal and physical outbursts in
their classrooms that occur on a daily basis.
These good and decent young black kids are heroes, they stand in
defense of the truth. In 1965, I used to walk up a major Boulevard
to Clara Barton Elementary School. We had a uniformed LEO at
the major crossing nearest the school. He was our crossing guard.
I forgot the guys name, but Officer (X) was one of the most beloved
characters in my life!
My single mother taught me to respect the police. I was to politely
address them as Sir or Ma’am. I was told not to disrespect or resist
them. I was also taught to seek them out if I was ever lost, kidnapped
or in any in trouble or distress.
My mother gave me the same advice that Chris Rock did in his
video” How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police” decades
later. When did we stop teaching our children the basics?
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