Black America Must Get Back To Disciplining Children.…..

The recent events in a South Carolina School in which a cop attacked and abused a black stu­dent once again shocked the world. The vio­lence lev­eled against Americans of all col­ors but more-so African-Americans of all ages and gen­ders seem to be on the rise but hard­ly any­one could believe a police offi­cer would do what we saw hap­pen to a student.
I was com­pelled to speak out against the Officer’s actions as I thought despite my 10 years in law enforce­ment in Jamaica one of the tough­est most vio­lent places to do police work, I nev­er thought that lev­el of vio­lence could be lev­eled at any stu­dent much less a female student.
Since the inci­dent the Sheriff’s office has demon­strat­ed good sense by fir­ing that Deputy.
Unfortunately for the peo­ple of South Carolina or some oth­er state this offi­cer may very well end up hired by anoth­er police depart­ment as a kind of “screw you” to the forces of what’s right.
SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, A MISNOMER..

In com­ment­ing on the inci­dent I argued that what­ev­er the stu­dent did could not be appro­pri­ate­ly dis­cussed in the same con­text of the offi­cer’s response which was expo­nen­tial­ly out of the range of what was appro­pri­ate, as such I did not dis­cuss her actions. I thought then that to dis­cuss both togeth­er dimin­ish­es the enor­mi­ty of the act com­mit­ted against that stu­dent and I still believe so today.
Even as a trained for­mer Police offi­cer I did not think that I need­ed to see any­thing else as CNN’s res­i­dent house police apol­o­gist Don Lemon seemed to believe may have shed more light, which would jus­ti­fy what the offi­cer did.
Interestingly Lemon for­got that the oth­er guest he was foist­ing his illog­i­cal attempt at cop appease­ment to was Sunny Hostin a Lawyer and for­mer Federal pros­e­cu­tor who ought to know when a stan­dard of proof has been met.
As I have said before there is a com­mon mis­con­cep­tion that if some­one slaps a cop that cop has a right to pull out a gun and shoot that person.
Let me be clear as far as the law is con­cerned a police offi­cer may only use force pro­por­tion­ate to the force used against him/​her.

QUESTION: WHEN IS SHOOTING A 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD REASONABLE?
A Police offi­cer does not get to employ bru­tal unhinged vio­lence against a per­son because the per­son is bel­liger­ent or uncooperative.
Yet there are no short­age of experts on the police band­wag­on mak­ing those argu­ments. Of course that’s not the law.
One of the rea­son for the unmit­i­gat­ed assault we are wit­ness­ing is that from County Courts all the way to the Supreme Court , Judges have stretched the mean­ing of the laws to their lim­its to jus­ti­fy police aggres­sion against the public.

THE BEHAVIOR OF PEOPLE MATTER ALSO HOWEVER
It would be disin­gen­u­ous to dis­cuss the offi­cer’s behav­ior with­out tak­ing time to speak to the prob­lem of teenage violence .
And more specif­i­cal­ly the prob­lem of teenage behav­ior in the black community.
As per reports The South Carolina stu­dent flipped and tack­led by sheriff’s deputy Ben Fields is in fos­ter care, her attor­ney told the New York Daily News. it is unclear whether the unnamed teen was in fos­ter care before the inci­dent or was placed there after­wards the report stat­ed that her bio­log­i­cal moth­er and grand­moth­er are how­ev­er alive.
In light of this rev­e­la­tion it makes it dif­fi­cult to speak to her behav­ior or lack there­of with­out under­stand­ing the dynam­ics of what in total­ly may be affect­ing this teen.
Which is all the more rea­son that the school should nev­er have includ­ed the police in a mat­ter of dis­ci­pline where clear­ly no crime was committed.
One of the Arguments we have heard is that it is a mis­de­meanor to dis­rupt school and that is what the young lady was engag­ing in by sit­ting at her desk and refus­ing to leave the classroom.
Those in favor of the Police state argues that it was pre­cise­ly why the Cop was called.
Anyone who feel com­fort­able with cops drag­ging chil­dren from their desks and flip­ping them across the room clear­ly does not deserve to share the same space or breathe the same air as ratio­nal people.
It is a seri­ous indict­ment on the Police state that we would even be argu­ing about crim­i­nal­iz­ing our chil­dren for things many of us did in school which teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors han­dled it quite capably.

REPORT: SOUTH CAROLINA STUDENT FLIPPED BY POLICE OFFICER IS IN FOSTER CARE

I would be remiss how­ev­er if I ignored or seek to ratio­nal­ize teenage tru­an­cy. It is shock­ing and despi­ca­ble the behav­ior we see being dis­played by Black teens across the country.
Of course you are going to have prob­lems with author­i­ty fig­ures if you curse out grownups and threat­en them . Have you ever rid­den the New York City sub­way and seen the behav­ior of Black teenage stu­dents? Have you even rid­den the New York City Buses , have you rid­den the trains or bus­es in any of America’s urban cen­ters and seen the behav­ior of young African-Americans”
This hap­pened recently…

When is ever okay to attack your teacher are you kid­ding me? Many of these stu­dents are not real­ly stu­dents they are preda­tors. They oper­ate in packs, they curse, steal, and they mete out vio­lence to whomev­er they see fit and they do not care.
So some­times when we see them receive cer­tain treat­ment know that many of them are not saints.

Most adults who live or do busi­ness in America’s urban cen­ters have seen them rob­bing stores in packs like wild preda­tors , sim­ply tak­ing what they want under the cov­er of numbers.
As mem­bers of the Black com­mu­ni­ty we are not help­ing them under­stand dis­ci­pline and con­se­quences if we cov­er for them and ratio­nal­ize away the bar­barism of some of these youngsters.

So lets not kid our­selves about these black kids and their behav­ior, every child must be taught respect for author­i­ty be it in church school or wher­ev­er . They sim­ply can­not run roughshod over every­one and every­thing with­out consequence.
And yes with­out point­ing fin­gers when we do not obey the rules the police will come and they are going to take you one way or the other.
Period.….