Clinton ‘Very Disturbed’ By Video Of White Cop Thrashing Black High Schooler (AUDIO)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign event at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a host on Sirius XM radio in an interview that aired Monday that she was “very disturbed” by videos that show a white officer thrashing a black student at a South Carolina high school last week.

Videos showed the officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. flipping the female student’s desk over backward while she was sitting in it, then tossing her across the floor. The officer was later fired.

Clinton first reacted to the incident last week and tweeted that there was “no excuse” for violence inside a school. She expanded on those comments in the radio interview.

“Well, I feel very disturbed by what we have all seen,” Clinton said. “And violence of any kind has no place in any school and the adults in a school should be modeling appropriate behavior to deal with any disciplinary issues that might arise and that was clearly not the case in the incident we have seen in the school in South Carolina.”

Clinton said there were “several problems here,” including that there needed to be training for adults in schools to deal with students who might be “difficult.”

The student in the video was reportedly refusing to leave class. Clinton noted that she was unaware of all the facts surrounding the incident, but said, regardless of the specifics, the resource officer’s actions were inappropriate.

“One of big concerns should be that black children are disciplined much more frequently. They’re suspended and expelled from school much more frequently, so clearly there is something that is not working right,” Clinton said.

“There’s a lot of alternatives then to picking them up and throwing them on the ground,” Clinton added.

Listen to Clinton’s comments:

h/t: BuzzFeed News

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