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Topic: School guards break child's wrist and arrest her for dropping cake
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M. Spector
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posted 30 September 2007 06:19 AM
The paranoid, racist security state continues to rage out of control: quote: School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up. The incident occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale and was caught on a cell phone camera by another pupil who was then also assaulted by the security guards.... [T]he security guard in the picture yelled "hold still nappy-head" at her, which at the time she did not know was a racist comment.... [T]he security guards later had the mother of the girl arrested after she sought out an attorney and demanded that the guard be arrested, telling her that if she wanted the guard detained then she herself would also be charged with battery after she allegedly pushed the guard and an assistant principal of the school. She has also been suspended from her job at another school in the county.
The kid's lucky he didn't have his taser with him
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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Tommy_Paine
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posted 30 September 2007 07:13 AM
I can't remember enough specifics to be able to google the exact story, but it reminds me of a case where a guy video taped a father and son having the crap kicked out of them by L.A.'s finest at a gas bar.The guy who video taped the incident and handed it over to the media has a few minor outstanding warrants, and L.A.'s finest used that as a flimsy pretext for arresting him. And of course he "resisted" and ended up resisting so badly, they had to kick the crap out of him. Of course, the police do this stuff because they are 100% confident that prosecutors and judges will always see it their way. We can blame psychotic cops all we want, but it's the prosecutors and judges who make it all possible.
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M. Spector
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posted 30 September 2007 10:08 AM
I don't entirely agree.In many cases the prosecutors and judges don't ever find out about the abusive behaviour of the police because there's no video of it and because the victim is intimidated into silence about it. In addition, there is a lot of passivity among the population about this sort of abuse because they have bought the idea that living in a police state will somehow protect them from something even worse. Just look at the (non)reaction of most of the people present at the John Kerry U. Fla. tasering incident, and the choruses of support in the blogosphere for electrocuting people who dare to ask "rude" questions. Sadistic cops know they have a lot of public support - especially when the victim is black or hispanic.
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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Ken Burch
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posted 30 September 2007 03:23 PM
True. Why would anyone think that the survival of the social order depends on children being beaten by police over a few crumbs? It was CRUMBS, for God's sake! When did the people who ran this school system lose their souls?
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M. Spector
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posted 30 September 2007 03:49 PM
The school was named after William J. "Pete" Knight, who flew 253 combat sorties in an F-100 fighter-bomber in Vietnam.After a distinguished career of strafing and napalming villages Col. Knight retired and ran for public office. During his term in the California State Senate, Knight gained fame as the author of Proposition 22, a.k.a. the "Knight Initiative," whose entire text stated, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Voters adopted the measure on March 7, 2000 with 61.4% of the electorate in favour. Wikipedia adds the following helpful observation: quote: Knight's son, David Knight, who is gay, married his long time partner in San Francisco; the marriage was later nullified by the California Supreme Court in March of 2004.
How'd you like to be a black, gay kid at that school? [ 30 September 2007: Message edited by: M. Spector ]
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jas
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posted 01 October 2007 06:37 AM
quote: Originally posted by Ken Burch:It was CRUMBS, for God's sake!
Actually, it shouldn't have mattered if it was the entire cake and she'd deliberately dropped it, smushing the chocolate into the floor with her foot. You still don't treat people that way, especially kids, who may be more prone to doing stuff like that. If it's a remand centre, and there's a lot of aggression and defiant behaviour going on all the time, then maybe I can understand a cop or toy-cop losing it, and over-reacting; but this was a high school. The guard clearly doesn't understand his role. He should be fired and the school administration should be prosecuted.
From: the world we want | Registered: Jun 2005
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Cueball
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posted 02 October 2007 03:46 AM
Me? I totally disagree. That is my experience.I know what you are saying. Anyone who thinks that Canadian cops are not ever violent or overstep the need for force, are fooling themselves. The cops here are often violent, and police burtality is a serious issue. On the other hand pound for pound the amount of completely gratuitous violence metted out against US citizens by the police there is by far and away greater that what Canadians experience. That is my experienced based on living in major urban centers both here and there. As far as I can tell, they don't even seem to think that their might be something wrong with it, so as to pretend they are not doing it. They actually go out and stir shit up in a way I have never seen cops here do. Does this equate to moral high ground? That depends on how you look at it I guess. [ 02 October 2007: Message edited by: Cueball ]
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