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
COP Should’ve TASEd the Miscreant. LIBtards SOFT on illEGAL CRIMes!!11!!!one!111!!!
I’ve read that this girl was in crisis. Her grandmother had recently passed away and she had been placed in the foster care system. This was also a new school where she didn’t know anyone. I can see why a kid in that situation may have seen her phone as her lifeline, the only way to connect with people she loves and those familiar to her. She needed someone to pick her up and give her a hug, not a slam to the ground.
Yeah, on the other hand every kid knows they’re not supposed to have their phone in class.
When it comes down to it, there has a to be a CORRECT way to handle this. Kid is in class, won’t leave when the teacher says so. Won’t leave when the principal says so.
Seems to me, getting someone in there who actually has some skill in dealing with troubled teenagers. Like someone with training, not some roided up cop, would probably be the best way to handle it.
I’m not totally sure the correct way to handle it, but what we saw on the video damned sure wasn’t it.
I hope this doesn’t turn her life into a partisan battle ground.
Yes, but police have tried everything and people still complain. They’ve tried:
–shooting
–tasing
–beating
–choking
–body slams
–all possible combinations of the above
Nothing satisfies you people!