Students lead walk-out in support of fired South Carolina resource officer

There is a respect for the bully mentality, a rush to protect the abuser, the police officer involved, and to render the Black victim a beast, a miscreant, a criminal who was up to no good and ultimately, deserved to lose his or her life, or suffer from the physical injuries. If she doesn't learn how to respect her teachers and fellow students while dealing with her personal grief, she should be expelled from Spring Valley High School.

"We must not lose sight that this incident started with a disruptive student". Your smartphone is not the problem here.

In fact, one is struck by how well-behaved and compliant everyone is in the presence of what appears to be state-sanctioned violence against a teenager bearing nothing more threatening than a cell phone and a bad attitude. To them, she should have known better, after all, it is still legal in South Carolina where Spring Valley High is located.

But it's the two girls who have had their education disrupted-Niya told The State that she has been suspended-and her record may have an arrest on it. She is due in court in December, though perhaps prosecutors will have seen a few sense by then. No, that child did not have the right to be on the phone unless she was experiencing a medical emergency. "Our expectation is that security officers and SROs are diligent partners in helping to make our schools safe and secure learning environments for our children, in accordance with our strategic plan and the law". The New York Daily News reports the lawsuit went nowhere, though witnesses heard Fields describe the rough arrest as "another notch in my belt". I was reading an article where a Black school administrator said that he doesn't necessarily believe in corporal punishment, but they don't have the money for the alternative, which is hiring counselors. That is the responsibility of everyone: parents, students, teachers, administrators and SROs.

Even before the advent of digital devices, students with short attention spans found creative ways to bypass instructors.

As the sheriff put it, tossing a student across the room "is not a proper technique". Someone needs to tell law enforcement agencies that this is America, not Afghanistan.

Martin said he was approached by Fields about a noise violation and things escalated quickly. Instead of sending kids to the juvenile justice system, schools would have likely handled most of these situations with their own in-school discipline, like detention or suspension.

Many board members echoed the concerns of parents.

"My hope is that we just use common sense in everything that we do at the end of the day".

No one except Mr. Fields knows whether he harbors contempt for black kids, but just because someone is dating or even married to a person of color doesn't grant him a "pass" from having motives questioned.

Mayor de Blasio has a point.