At Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, police officer Ben Fields used force to remove a student from class. That was on Monday October 26th 2015. It was caught on video by three students with mobile phones and it spread like wildfire across the Internet.
The videos show a Black girl sitting at her desk in class. A White police officer, Ben Fields, moves the papers from her desk and asks,
“Are you going to come with me or am I going to make you? Come on. I’m going to get you up.”
He puts his arms round her neck (pictured above) and under her legs, flips her back in the chair-with-a-desk thing she is sitting in and removes her. Then he drags her (pictured below) and throws her across the floor. Like she was a thing, not a person.
Nia Kenny, a fellow student who took one of the videos, said:
“I was screaming ‘What the f, what the f, is this really happening?’ I was praying out loud for the girl. I just couldn’t believe this was happening. I was just crying. And he was like, ‘Since you have so much to say, you are coming too.'”
Fields arrested Kenny too, for “disturbing schools”.
It is unclear what led up to this. Kenny says that the teacher had asked the girl to leave after not participating in class. When the girl refused, the teacher called an administrator who, in turn, called in Fields.
Parents are “outraged” and “angered”.
The school district is “deeply concerned” and “will not tolerate any actions that jeopardize the safety of our students.” It says it uses police officers to protect students. In 2012, Spring Valley High was 51% Black, 36% White.
The Richland Two Black Parents Association said:
“The unfortunate actions of this police officer has revealed what many African American parents have experienced in this district for a very long time. This is just another example of why we must have an independent assessment from various parties including the Department of Justice to examine policies and practices in the District.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in South Carolina:
“There is no justification whatsoever for treating a child like this. 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. We must take action to address the criminalization of children in South Carolina, especially at school.”
The mayor says he “will not accept this kind of behavior from any law enforcement officer.” Fields is a police officer for the county, not the city.
The county sheriff said he is “very disturbed”. He put Fields on paid leave and asked the FBI and Department of Justice to look into the matter.
Fields has been taken to court twice before: once for police brutality in 2007 (he won that case) and once for racial profiling (goes to trial in January).
– Abagond, 2015.
Update (14:20 GMT): Ben Fields will be fired according to NBC News.
Update (November 2nd): The girl’s first name is Shakara. She is 16. Her lawyer says she has carpet burns on her forehead, a hard cast on her right arm and a swollen neck, back and shoulder. She is charged with “disturbing schools”. If found guilty she could face a fine of $1,000 and 90 days in jail. She says she obeyed her teacher in putting away her phone, but not in leaving the classroom (presumably to go to the principal’s office). She thought that was an unfair punishment. Source: News One.
See also:
- YouTube: raw video – it shows one of the videos three times, twice at normal speed, once in slow motion.
- Twitter: #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh
- Also in South Carolina
- Walter Scott
- Charleston Massacre
- Also in Columbia
- Dylann Roof – taken to Burger King
- Confederate flag – taken down in July
- McKinney, Texas
- The term “thug”
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This did spread like wildfire, but I honestly have to say I have seen more whites standing against this than blacks. It is like the coon switch went on with them. Typical argument is she was talking back and one black chick said she was resisting arrest by having her cell phone.
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Beast in uniforms with badges assaulting young black girls again. First the young girl at the pool party in her bathing suit now the beast assaulting a kid in class being aggressive like he is participating in mixed martial arts, and the coon/negropean teacher who allowed the girl to be assaulted needs to lose his job too. Black women are the most unprotected in society. This is a conversation that needs to be had about the intersection of male patriarchy and police brutality and violence against black women. I hope this beast looses his job and is sent to prison and hope the school district is sued for having this beast working among young black children.
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This beast has a history of assault why is he still working?
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@Lord of Mirkwood: I have to agree with you the thug acted like a Nazi because that a gestapo tactic.
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I think i read the other teen Nia Kenny was arrested for speaking out against the cop assaulting her classmate.
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@Mary Burrell
“This beast has a history of assault why is he still working?”—That is what I don’t get. Schools know they open themselves up for lawsuits letting these type Rambo wanna be cops in these jobs. So why do it? They must love allowing the tax payers to pay money out.
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Here’s the post! I tried to follow the link in the email but the post disappeared, so I had to comment through email.
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With a male Black teacher in the class?
Things have changed.
I was bussed to a ‘hood school’ and the male Black teachers were no joke. There was no need for security, back then the male Black teachers and coaches WERE security.
Sometimes I get called to the schools or court to.deal with the children in some of the families I mentor. As soon as I walk in these bad acting kids stop and the other kids just say, ‘oooooh’ because the male Black does not play with kids.
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@ Paige
Sorry about that. I accidentally hit the publish button before it was ready.
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@ Pumpkin
The name of the game is to cultivate as much stress on young black minds as possible. It disrupts their capacity for learning, kills their confidence and tunes their mind towards an existence within the Prison-Industrial Complex. Today’s public schools are, by far and large, a funnel that guides black students from the classroom to juvenile hall to jail and prison.
Black Americans could attempt to break the cycle by quietly creating academies where black students can attend and flourish, without being under constant mental stress. Take your kids out of the public schools and place them in environments where they’ll be valued and nurtured.
Too bad we’ve always been busy trying to force those who hate us to their very core to accommodate and respect us, knowing they’ll do all they can to resist that.
As for the cop, I could think of a lot of ways to deal with that problem, but…..in the meantime, I do hope he’s fired and, if possible, prosecuted.
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woop woop! that’s the sound of da police….woop woop! that’s da sound of da beast!
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I hadn’t seen this story thanks for writing about it.
What Mark Lyons said….
Is their a Black centric homeschooling curriculum available ? Christian evengelicals home school their kids with curriculums teaching Christian revisionist history and creationism. It seems to me an educational system could be created with Black history, cultural values ect that could be oriented towards homeschooling or church sponsored schooling.
When I moved my grandmother in with us we had her home school my oldest son. We used Carver which is a liberal arts white centric program. Greek classics, Latin ect.
This also had the benifit of giving my grandmother a sense of worth as she was contributing something important within our family.
When my son eventually went to high school he scored high on the entrance exam.
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My bad. The teacher wasn’t Black. Heavy.com has a nice little write up.
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Mirkwood.
This isn’t some regional event. This could happen anywhere in the U.S.
It happens in California one of the most liberal states in the union.
http://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/2014/12/california-fight-police-violence-cops.html?m=1
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@ Pumpkin
Yes. Please send what resources you know about. I have long wanted to do a post on that.
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Abagond, thanks for getting this post up so quickly. I’m in Charleston now, and ever since I moved back home, I haven’t been able to write about ALLl that I’ve seen in the past 1 1/2 years — just so full, I’m overwhelmed. Hope to get it all down soon.
Meanwhile, here’s a link from the local CBS affiliate in Columbia where my sister lives. They interviewed one of the students in the class who shot video of this madness. Please listen: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-who-videoed-violent-classroom-arrest-speaks-out/
According to CNN now, there’s a 3rd video showing her “striking” the officer — right before he upended the damned desk. Hell, I’d “strike” his ass too if he was turning me upside down!!! {SMDH}
@Mary Burrell… Amen! And Amen again!
@uglyblackjohn…“With a male Black teacher in the class?
Things have changed.”
I told my sister the.same.thing today! He just stood there. The whole time, lookin’ like Bill Cosby giving his damned, “Poundcake” speech — while that grown-assed man, just flung that girl-child all over that classroom floor, in front of her classmates!!
My immediate thought was, contrarily, “Ain’t a damned thing changed for them.” I thought of the very public hanging of Denmark Vesey and his co-conspirators — betrayed by a combination of tortured co-conspirators and some literal, House Negroes: http://www.nathanielturner.com/introductiontodenmarkvesey.htm
But more importantly, I thought about the “message” they intended the rest of Black Charleston to hear:
That, is precisely the message that jack-booted thug was sending to the rest of the class!!
Incidentally, they’ve now allowed a bronze statue to be erected in Vesey’s honor, ironically, in Hampton Park (used to be a zoo when we did our “Raisin in the Sun” move to the neighborhood from downtown. They had a real lion that you could hear roaring and grunting from blocks away!) — which is named after the slave-catcher/owner, Wade Hampton whose “Red Shirt” death squads, violently suppressed the Black vote in Charleston so he could become governor: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/22/south_carolina_wade_hampton_statue_red_shirt_death_squad_hero_commemorated.html
Seems to me, while we were basking in the glow of getting a statue dedicated to us, we slept the irony of its placement — and they, yet again, got the last laugh…
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This is so so wrong on so many levels. One of the question asked: would this happen to a white child?
A girl? A child?
Watching a girl being violated by a big man leaves ones in a state of speechlessness, disbelief, anger and sadness.
The way this adult bully dragged her like she was nothing.
The apathy of her class-mates (the one with the folded arms) and the teacher just watching. Why did he not try to defend his pupil? The two young Black boys in front, what thoughts must be running through their young minds?
The administrator, the teacher and the policemen should be all charged for child abuse and all related charges.
As upsetting as the video on battery and assault was against a child, so were the many hateful comments made by the white racists.
There are way more things at play than ‘simple’ aggravated battery of a minor. It is sinister because all the white players know their role (and actively and passively collude) in upholding a white supremacist society.
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This is not to rub salt in the deep wounds of Black people, but a pointing out of but a microcosm of the white racial zeitgeist in the USA.
Watch and compare how a white mass-murderer is arrested, to how thousands of unarmed Black people are murdered by the police.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4mAKQNLhHU)
Watch and compare how one of the most infamous female serial killers in history is arrested to how an innocent young Black girl is treated by the police.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRDs7-R_eA)
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The funny thing is that some white folks will be screaming on social media ” she deserved it for being rude” the same thing they said when corporations were destroying black families in the 80s and the CIA was selling drugs in Black Neighborhoods. Now corporations are stealing from everyone irrespective of skin color. If a man beats up a black woman, he can also beat up a white woman. If a thief steals from Black people until they have nothing, he will start stealing from white people too.
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This made me look into what a school resource officer is. I had no idea that such a thing exists. It sounds like an insane idea.
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It is unclear what led up to this. Kenny says that the teacher had asked the girl to leave after not participating in class. When the girl refused, the teacher called an administrator who, in turn, called in Fields.
Details of this case are important to make an unbiased and reasonable assessment.
I saw elsewhere
(http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/27/us/south-carolina-who-is-ben-fields/)
a detail about the meaning of not participating in class. It seems that the use of a cellphone in the classroom triggered the whole episode.
I think, frankly, that the protocol applicable in such cases was followed and the only wrong thing, was the way the officer grabbed and even threw the female student. More specifically:
* the teacher asked the student to left the classroom; she refused (or didn’t comply)
* the teacher took the case to a higher authority in the school who probably tried the same without success;
* the officer was called, at last, to remove the student from the classroom; being him a “(law) enforcement officer” it meant that the removal of the student, at that stage, could be carried out by force if necessary (this is what “enforcement” means)
I agree that force had to be used to remove the student from the classroom.
But I don’t agree with the specific way that force was applied in this case. You, as an adult, can’t put your arm around the neck of a teenager as if you were trying to suffocate him/her; you can’t either grab the person by the leg(s), especially being a female student; and you can’t throw the subject away, like he/she was an inanimate object. All that was definitively a wrong way to apply force.
The officer must be charged with “excess of zeal” in dealing with the case, but I would like to draw a difference between his behavior and the recent cases of murderous police officers who killed civilians (oft unarmed) without an acceptable reason. Those cases are different from this one. Remember that the officer was called to restore order, removing the student from the classroom. If he hadn’t removed the student he could have been criticized for doing nothing to help maintain discipline at that place (his job description, by the way). Allowing that student to remain in the classroom after she failed to follow instructions would be a mistake in the medium and long run. The discipline and respect of students in face of their teachers and superiors could be undermined and eventually later collapse making the whole environment inappropriate for the rest of the class which was there to learn, not to play social games. This is my take on this case. But it reflects certainly where I come from. Having the option to send a son or daughter, at his/her teenage years, to one of two schools “A” and “B” where in the school “A” there is a generalized “democracy”, pupils call teachers by “you” instead of the more respectful “Sir” or “Madam”, send and receive calls with their cellphones at will or anything of the sort during lessons, and in school “B”, where exactly the opposite occurs, even if sometimes it is seen as “somewhat harsh” by its students, I have no doubt that I would have chosen option “B”.
Inculcating discipline is a necessary ingredient of the grow process of young humans. Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t avoid the use of some force to maintain or restore discipline. To be honest, any adult in a position of authority, and educators especially, facing young humans in a daily basis, knows that.
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@ munubantu
The officer could have just pushed her out into the hallway, desk and all. There was no reason to go all Rambo on her like she was some kind of dangerous criminal.
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Sickening. My heart goes out to that girl. From the background reading I’ve done, she is a ward of the state and has an IEP, so she is truly one that has been taken advantage of on so many levels.
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@Abagond
Do most schools over there use police to enforce discipline?
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@ villagewriter
I do not know the numbers. It seems like it is most. It is certainly way more common than when I was in high school.
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@ villagewriter – We had a city police station at my old high school back in So-Cal manned by two officers.
The town in which I currently live (in Texas) has it’s own school district police force (mostly former cops who were kicked off the force or former military guys).
When one lives in a country with a huge military – what else are soldiers to do once they come home?
School security forces are a growing business. I have a friend coming back from Afghanistan who is bidding for the district’s new contract.
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When I was in high school nobody dared disobey a teacher.
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@ villagewriter – Or else what? Were there consequences if you did? What if you were going through a personal crisis or had family problems? Did any of that matter or were children expected to stay in their lane?
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News flash: Ben Fields will be fired.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sheriff-announce-south-carolina-deputy-ben-fields-be-fired-sources-n452881?hootPostID=e42e9c8f1c8322ac6cf2578086969b78
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So much for that missing video of her punching and kicking him.
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Deb
If there was a video of this girl “striking” the officer, it would be all over the place. They have no video, yet people are alive and well claiming she punched him and kicked him and it will be seen once the 3rd video is released. These “if she would have” people need help.
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@sharinalr
“So much for that missing video of her punching and kicking him”
LOL! Exactly.
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@ uglyblackjohn
When one lives in a country with a huge military – what else are soldiers to do once they come home?
School security forces are a growing business. I have a friend coming back from Afghanistan who is bidding for the district’s new contract.
Another, probable reason in my opinion, for contracting that kind of personnel, is the growing number of school mass shootings that have occurred in the recent three or more decades in the USA.
I don’t live in the USA but I can understand that as a reaction to those killings parents and school authorities there, had decided to beef up security, calling for professional help for the job (translation: former military personnel or police officers).
It’s a pity when things go wrong like in some aspects of this case, but I think that most parents feel better at the sight of a police officer (former or active police officer) at the school’s premises of their children than otherwise, because the safety of their children always comes first in their mind. Just in case…Nowadays you witness all kind of unruly behavior at schools. The mass shootings are rare and certainly the extremest case, but there are other situations, serious too and which require proper help:
* bully behavior between students with some physical and/or sexual abuse included, that can go out of control of the school authorities; the physically weaker pupils – sometimes also the better students – fall prey first of that;
* bullying of teachers by some students (sometimes with physical threats); teachers who are felt as “weaklings” by the students can loose their ability to carry out their job properly and whole classes can suffer from that;
* etc.
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We, as a race, have in the past (thanks to integration) and continue to, to this day turn our most precious resources over to a people that has displayed their unbridled rabid hatred for them and then have the nerve to think that these people(?) will teach them in a fair and balanced manner. That’s not logical.
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I read on another site that this brute has a black girlfriend and the idiot racist posters making stupid post that makes the brute not a racist. Slavers brutalized and raped black women on a regular, it makes no difference that he has a black girlfriend. I wonder does he physically abuse her?
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This incident made the headline TV news today in Hong Kong.
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Ben Munday
Exactly!
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So the officer was threatened by a teen-aged unarmed girl – hence the need to assert his authority. I mean c’mon, she could have been a terrorist, hiding her Jihadist AK-47 in her vagina, or perhaps underneath her flip-flops.
It’s callous disregard of the health and safety of a child to drag her around like that. It honestly shouldn’t even take him both hands to restrain someone that size.
He could have broken that girls neck and If she would have fought him, he would have shot her in the classroom. Real talk.
But sorry I forgot. She’s black. She has super human negro strength in the cops mind.
But take a look at this
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/2015/10/27/student-who-videotaped-incident-speaks-out/74664592/
The girl stated to the teacher that she only momentarily took out her phone, and then apologized over and over again. She didn’t get out of her seat, raise her voice, cuss, or threaten or disrespect anyone.
The teacher allowed this event to transpire. He allowed the police to get involved and abuse and fling this girl all around the room.
And I don’t for a second believe he would have acted the same way if she had been white. He belongs in jail, not on the unemployment line.
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@uglyblackjohn
Corporal punishment was the norm; inflicted both by the teachers and parents. Counseling was also available for the kids who needed it. They have banned corporal punishment now though.
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@ Pumpkin
Thanks.
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A Black male teacher who sits back and does nothing and apparently the cop has a Black wife/girlfriend as well?. I swear to God it must be night of the living coon. We don’t even need Whites to dress up in racist Halloween costumes this year because it seems like every other Black person I know is wearing true to life blackface. Between the Don Lemons, Raven Symones, Stephen A Smiths etc it seems as if the media is propping up sell out knee-grows and zip coons as a counter to the increased focus on racial issues and injustices against Blacks. It’s like they’re saying “well if THIS Black person disagrees with Black Lives Matter then it must be a hate group, because this ONE Black person said so.” Makes me sick how so many of us will sign our soul away to Mephistopheles for a few dollars that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
I’m tired of this ****. I’ve read on multiple occasions that Ghana is welcoming American Blacks back to the continent. Its an English speaking country with warm weather year round and considering how many of us descend from there and how many Ghanaian friends I have already I’m sure it wouldn’t take much for me to find my footing. The only thing stopping me is realizing that I couldn’t take the rest of my family with me. But even that could change one day.
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Glad I was homeschooled. I already saw the fools don lemon and raven trying to victim blame and make it seem like no big deal.
If she was not participating why not call her parents or talk to her after class. If she usually participates and on this one day didn’t maybe something was bothering her, and if she hasn’t been participating the whole school year why wait till now to take action. She could have a learning disability or something.
At least he was fired, but I know there are more out there like him or worse. He can flip a girl over a desk and drag her out for refusing to leave but it’s not black girls shooting up schools now is it. This vid reminds me of the one in McKinney texas, manhandling black teen girls when they aren’t putting up a fight.
The school to prison pipeline is an important topic like pumpkin brought up. I see too many pics that ppl have taken of their kids’ textbooks and the way the textbooks minimize slavery and other atrocities they committed. Let’s not forget some of these schools ban certain books so they teach students what they agree with.
Black children had to be escorted to integrate schools now they are being escorted out.
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People can try to explain away and victim blame all they want but he also took Nia Kenny. If u have the person that is “disrupting” class why not just leave. But no he had to flex his power once again and put another girl in her place. She was reacting, people react in stressful situations and he punished her for it. This whole thing was teaching these kids to be quiet or u are next and do not stand up or u will be taken down. It was basically watch abuse and don’t react, now that reminds me of slave narratives of them having to watch other slaves be punished while they had to watch and not react.
This vid sends the same message the McKinney vid did, which is black girls are not to be protected or respected and when they are attacked anybody that tries to help them will face consequences. In the mckinney vid the boys had a gun pulled on them and in this vid Nia was taken too. A white woman is the opposite she is to be protected to the point of paranoia.
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I just read that the poor girl is a recent orphan. Just more traumatic experiences for her heaped on the others. The indignity of being a Black female in this country never ends. We don’t get excuses. But let one of their demon Damien offspring shoot up a school and they’re examining every aspect of their lives trying to come up with excuses and explanations. Excuse me while I vomit.
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@A
“I swear to God it must be night of the living coon.”—LMFAO
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LMFAO!
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@ villagewriter – So should today’s children be treated the same way that you (and I) were? If kids feared those in authority would they be better behaved? Would they learn more?
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LMFAO@ Night of the living coons!
There’s only one thing to do at a time like this….
(https://youtu.be/ddest5BG7nc)
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Not to be “THAT GUY” but it looked like a lot of AA students and an AA teacher were “sitting around” and watching this young girl getting assaulted rather than coming to her aid. While it’s all well and good to take video of this event, what was missing from the video was someone being BRAVE enough to step in and CHAIR that asshole cop and stop his assault.
This cop was only doing to that young girl what he has become accustomed to. In slavery days it was called SEASONING. You make an example out of a belligerent slave in order to make the larger group COWER rather than meet violence with violence. Not ONE person in that classroom tried to come to the aid of that girl. SHAME ON THEM…!!!
I’m reminded of the stories about “500” slaves standing around and watching 2 white guys whip a slave to death. This shit has got to end. Violence against our people can’t be tolerated any longer without an in-kind response. If the “state” thinks they can murder us and our only response is to hope for video evidence, we’re screwed.
The 60’s proved that for every Dr. King you need a Malcolm X AND the Black Panthers so that the choice is freedom vs war.
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I just read on another site she lost her mother and grandmother this poor girl is really going through it and to suffer this abuse. It’s not enough for this beast to be fired he needs to go to prison. That teacher needs to have something done to his trifling behind.
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@darqbeauty
I just read that as well, but what p*ssed me off more than anything was reading black people call this girl a no good hoodrat. Saying how she will be pregnant with 3 kids by 23 etc. None aware of cared to be aware that she had just lost her parents in the past few months.
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@Black Sci Fi: Maybe if some of the kids tried to intervene the beast might have shot them all. That’s my thought about that idea. I thought about that at first but who knows what that color aroused beast would have done? I hope the girl can get some help and healing and nurturing for her wellness and emotional being.
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Blacks are supposed to be so violent and scary but the only person, THE ONLY PERSON, acting violent and scary in the video is White.
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@ Pumpkin
I heard about his Black girlfriend. I wonder if he is violent with her too.
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What Pumpkin says …
Every Black person killed by the police has white America making excuses for their death.
The police had no choice but to follow “procedure” and “guidelines”.
“If they had just tried a little harder to obey they would be alive today”.
It’s complete denial because to accept the fact that the police can kill or abuse without consequences would challange the social construct that whites need to believe in. That would entail questioning their position within society and the reponsiblities that come with a position of power. Image is everything and it is denial that protects their self image.
The police enforce the social order of white supremecy through an Iligitimate use of force.
The constitution was never designed to protect everybody; it only set ground rules for competing whites.
Whatever rights an individual has may be permitted by the State but they originate from within the individuale because rights are inalienable.
The question isn’t whether the girl disobeyed but rather why it is another individuale had a right to agress against someone who posed no threat.
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@ Pumpkin
Go to Settings -> Sharing. That takes you to a page called Sharing Settings. Under the section called Sharing Buttons you can choose which sharing buttons you want to show up.
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Did you hit the Save Changes button at the bottom of that page?
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You know, videos like these annoy me. Because we get so worked up and talk about it for weeks and then POOF new story. Until we prepare to protect our own and punish those who attack our own, the cycle will continue. Home school your children …
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I just spoke to a brotha’ who is trying to get the security contract for my city’s school district. A few judges, council members, and school board members were sitting at my club discussing this incident. He said that once the threat was identified and isolated that the rest of the students should have been removed from the room (eliminating any audience) while the threat was controlled and removed.
He said that this would have de-escalated any attention created from onlookers and allowed those in authority to save face.
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@abagond
There was a major troll here on Abagond who spoke like he knew everything about Black American experience and grievances. He also thought he had all the solutions. I did a little research and discovered he had married a black woman. Please write something about people who marry people from other races so that they can get to own the identity of that race and culture,
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@villagewriter.
I hope you are not referring to me.
I love me wife. It’s not about owning a race or culture but rather defending it. I want justice to protect and represent everyone, not just the ruling tribe.
When I write about white racism it seems I’m writing from a third person. I know that is a form of deflection, a way to make myself not part of it. Thats the contradiction that white people can’t get around.
My wife thinks I worry about social justice too much.
Everything thing I have leaned has largely come from this blog, Abagond and other posters. And their observations reflect what I see happening in the world.
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@Michael Barker
The guy I am talking about had Hugh Laurie on his profile and a blog that specifically focused on Black Brazilians- that’s where I got to know he was married to a black woman. So, its not you and I didn’t even know you were white.
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@Michael Barker
Abagond banned him by the way.
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@Villagewriter: That was Thaddeus Blanchette.
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Thaddeus was gone before I discovered this blog.
I was reading his comments on the Bell Curve thread and his arguments against the Bell Curve seemed solid to me. Maybe I missed something.
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@Pumpkin
I saw his comments a few months ago when I was digging through this blog.
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At some point black people will have to face the reality that integration (subjugate ourselves) with those who despise is a recipe for disaster AND failure.
Not only is it failing they are turning the clock back to more repressive behaviors against us. And we stay in denial even when the evidence — rising unemployment, gentrification (move us out of our neighborhoods), and police/citizen violence especially against our children.
We must take our dollars and create our own black schools. That is the ONLY solution left to us.
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@Pumpkin
It is Thaddeus. I saw his comments when I was reading Abagond’s older posts.
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With Abagond’s permission I’d like to share a link
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ccd-ToS2ic)
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@ Pumpkin
The only thing I can suggest is to shut down your browser and do the whole thing over again from scratch from beginning to end. Your browser might have got into some kind of screwed up state.
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@ Pumpkin
Are you thinking of Zek? Zek, Thad and B.R. were all pretty much like that.
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@ A @ Sharina
A’s “Enter the Dragon” comment was deleted for calling for violence. Sharina’s comment too since it would be confusing without it.
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@ villagewriter
Hmm, interesting suggestion.
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[…] Sourced through Scoop.it from: abagond.wordpress.com […]
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Asplund lied so much you could never tell what is true.
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“Are you thinking of Zek? Zek, Thad and B.R. were all pretty much like that.”
absolutly fuk you…dont fuking mention me in this context on your blog, a hole…you arnt qualified ,or anyone else on here to judge me…i have to holdmy nose from the stench of anti interracial sex attitudes on here..get out of my face with your bs
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I thought Asplund was now Talibmensa, and it’s so nice not to scroll through all the voluminous spam type posts that B.R. wrote, 🙂
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just dont fuking mention my name and i am happy as pure sh1t to not come in here and deal with coward cyber blip personal attacks…and the putrid anti interracail sex cloud that hangs over here..really, get the flying fuk away from me and dont mention my name on this blog anymore..
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really, abagond, and personal attack mother fuckers, just dont mentiosn my name on here and ill never come in again, i mean get the fuck out of my face..you cont have the moral charactor to judge me..and i cant stand the cyber blip cowardly stench on here
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OFF TOPIC: B.R.
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An off topic declaration that I truly applaud. 🙂
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@ Abagond
Can I at least say he deserves to get Bruce Lee’d? Lol
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Read on Clutch magazine website that many students staged a walkout in protest of Ben Fields firing. He was a football coach and has the support of many students there. Saw tee-shirts with #Bring back Fields. Go figure. There needs to be a conversation about the intersectionality of race and gender especially in regards to black women being the most unprotected.
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That’s sad and uncalled for behavior on the part of that evil man. Kimberle Crenshaw and her AAPF are having the National Day of Action regarding the Spring Valley High incident on November 3:
https://www.facebook.com/TheAfricanAmericanPolicyForum/?pnref=story
SB
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@jefe: I concur
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@Mary Burrell
I have no idea why the media is making it out as if there were more kids involved than it actually was. Out of a school of 2000 only 100 were in that protest and I have no doubt a great deal of them were on the football team.
On top of that some students in the protest did speak to say they felt what he did was wrong, but he should keep his job and he is not a racist. I don’t think the kids care whether what he did was right or wrong, but more so whether they have a coach for football.
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@sharinalr: Anytime there is a football team to maintain i have noticed that in many universities where a female student has been a victim in a sexual assault and if the sex offender was a player of that school’s sport team they go out of their way to protect the offender, the point i am attempting to make is school sports teams will always be protected. And you are right about how the media doesn’t tell the whole truth about an incident.
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The most disrespected and unprotected and neglected person in America is the black woman.
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@ Pumpkin
I think genocide against Blacks Americans is certainly possible. It was headed in that direction in the 1960s. Arguably, the riots stopped it.
Before 2100, the genocidal hammer is more likely to fall on Asians: there are fewer if them and they make an easier scapegoat: the perpetual foreigner and model minority stereotypes has already set them up for that. If the US finds itself losing a war to China, it could come to that.
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@ Pumpkin
Thanks for the link.
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Update: The girl’s first name is Shakara. She is 16. Her lawyer says she has carpet burns on her forehead, a hard cast on her right arm and a swollen neck, back and shoulder. She is charged with “disturbing schools”. If found guilty she could face a fine of $1,000 and 90 days in jail. She says she obeyed her teacher in putting away her phone, but not in leaving the classroom (presumably to go to the principal’s office). She thought that was an unfair punishment.
Source:
http://newsone.com/3234997/spring-valley-high-teen-punishment-unfair/
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Dr. Bpyce Watkins take on the sucker a** Black “male” teacher who let this nonsense go on unchecked.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIgWUv89Vfg)
A lot of Black teachers seem to be similar to Black cops in that they’re part of a racist structure and in order to fit in act out more harshly than their White counterparts against us. It’s their way of showing they’re down with the process of terrorizing Black youth and are ultimately desensitized and indifferent to the struggles the children who look like them face.
Much like the cop from Boyz In The Hood or the 2 cops in Washington DC who accosted an elderly (possibly homeless if I recall) Black man who happened to be in a wealthy White neighborhood he worked in. The kicker for anyone who remembers the incident was it took the (pregnant) White women who he worked for to come out onto the street and tell the cops to eff off. It was a real Bizarro world like scene I must say.
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