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Well everyone have a good night. I have to say watching the video, reading the student comments and also reading the situation riled me up more than anything happening this year. With one daughter who can sometimes be just as stubborn as this girl, I would never be ok with something like this happening to her especially if she was non-violent. For my daughter she clams up and shutdown when you yell at her or approach her in a threaten manner. So I could see her acting like this if she was approached this way. It has nothing to do with disrespecting public authority, teachers ect. it could just be the kids personality. As a father I would go ballistic if this was my daughter and especially if the only thing she did was clam up and did not respond to this police officer.

I actually wish this was a white girl because I really would like to see if the reaction in this comment thread would remain the same. I am not saying this was race related but just wondering if people siding with this type of force would see it differently.

Sometimes kids go through stuff where they act out in this way.

Growing up, I had friends who barely ate or was starving at school and were angry, depressed, resentful. I had friends who parents were on drugs, in jail or on the street, raped and assaulted them. Sometimes those situations manifest themselves in situations like this. The people who are sitting on their high horse making statement that this girl learned a lesson has no clue how this demonstration of police force will scar her and her family for life. How the community especially the black community will continue to stay resentful and promote bad blood and mistrust.

Some of you never had to feel like the police did not have your back and looked to punish you for anything. You never had a police officer pull you over for riding your bike in a predominate white area or pulled over while driving. You never had a police officer treat you like crap just because he wore a badge. So if you are wondering if this happen to me then yes.

But with each bad situation I have good as well. I remember a few friends and I when were were 8 to 10 years old trespassing on a golf course shooting at squirrels. Out of no where we see two cop cars baring down on us and we ran away like crazy. The cops caught all of us, handcuff us, put us in the back of their car (all white police) and took us away. They asked us where we lived and told us we were trespassing on private property. Afterwards they took us to get Ice Cream and basically just hung out and talk with us for a little bit before taking us home. The cool thing is that we respected them more for treating us like good but keeping the message stern then taking us to jail and treating us like garbage. Did we go back to the golf course, no. It was not because we couldn't it was because we respected those 2 officers and did not want to disappoint them.

Anyway, I hope the lesson learned here will be that we need to make sure if police will be in our schools they are trained to handle non-violent situations without having to resort to this type of force because it does not earn respect it earns fear which is not what I believe we want in our schools.