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Officer Attacking Black Girl in Classroom Was Not About Respect (Update)

Officer Attacking Black Girl in Classroom Was Not About Respect (Update)

Officer Attacking Black Girl in Classroom Was Not About Respect

officerbodyslamThe following statement is actually adapted from a comment I made on a social media thread in which the post implied that people who were present in the classroom when the girl was attacked by the police officer were right not to respond on her behalf. It also addresses the popular idea of blacks that the child should have been taught to respect authority and none of this would have happened.

“I disagree. The teacher was a coward who initiated the entire process.

Allow me to deal with the behavior of the officer first, and discard that madness with the quickness. It is in the DNA of African Americans to mitigate the negative and hostile behavior of whites. It originates from the times when our ancestors were slaves and they were forced to make sure that their masters knew that his hostile actions toward them did not result in them harboring any ill will. See, a slave that held grudges was considered a threat, and they were dealt with severely. So, it became instinctive for slaves to not only ensure their masters that they were not holding a grudge, but offer a reason why they actually deserved what they got.  So, when blacks respond with 50 million reasons why a white person did something to another black that they should not have done, it is actually their way of making themselves comfortable with it, while sending a message to whites that all is well.

Look, when a person does something that they had no right to do, introducing any other elements into the equation is an attempt to mitigate the behavior. If there is nothing this little girl could have done to deserve this type of treatment, then her behavior is not a part of the discussion. I know this is hard for blacks to understand, but the very mention of her behavior is naturally implicit that it is responsible for her treatment. He was the adult, and he was an authority figure, and he overstepped his bounds in drastic fashion — end of discussion.

As far as how white are viewing the incident, I maintain my common position of not wasting my time attempting to convince them of what is already clear. Cognitive dissonance forces whites to adjust their perspective in a manner that offers justification for their hostile and inhumane treatment of blacks — much in the manner in which they dehumanized slaves in order to justify slavery and the treatment of those slaves. What is clear is that this would not even be a discussion if the young girl were white. This has been proven at every level over last year alone.

Now, let’s discuss the teacher and the role he played in the situation.

As I stated earlier, the teacher is a coward, and the initiator of the entire incident. This is my assessment after evaluating all of the facts that have been released to this point. From his perspective, she challenged his authority, and something had to be done about it. Viewing this through a superficial lens may lead you to agree with his actions, but nothing is ever only what can be seen on the surface. We must be able to view the complete picture, and then evaluate the behavior of everyone involved.

1. The little girl lost her mother in January of this year.
2. She then lost her grandmother in June
3. She is now in foster care
4. This is her first year in this school

While this doesn’t excuse her behavior, it definitely explains it. She is a child that is being asked to process more than the average adult could effectively process without negative results. This is a collective mindset that is exclusive to African Americans.

Let’s be clear, when we send our children to school, we entrust them to adults who are supposed to be trained and prepared to respond to certain situations in ways that are in the best interest of the child. Schools are not places for adults to practice power tripping and dominant control. Children often need to be reached not dominated. While they give teaching jobs to those who are academically equipped, few are psychologically prepared for what the job entails, and even fewer are culturally equipped to be effective in their jobs, especially when it comes to properly educating black students. You cannot properly educate a child that you cannot relate to, because education is far more than the attainment of academic skills.

The teacher, as an adult, authority figure, and most of all, a black man, failed her. He was more into his power trip and focused on getting her to acquiesce to his demands than he was about helping her confront her issues and all that she was dealing with at the time.

We tend to only see things on the surface, and blacks have been conditioned to expect and demand absolute obedience from our progeny, which is actually not socially nor psychologically normal. I deal with troubled kids on a regular basis, and they can be a hand full. They don’t always act the way I would like for them to, but I have not put my hands on one of them. I have not even threatened one with violence. I focus on discovering where their anger and hostility is coming from, and then I address it through genuine concern. And at the end of the day, I don’t have one that I have not been able to reach. However, if I allow my ego to get in the way, and it becomes about me demanding respect, instead of earning it, I will look to break them in order to force their compliance, instead of focusing on building them up and teaching them about true respect. The truth is that children want structure, and they want to be led, but they want to be able to trust the person that is leading them. And, we have the audacity to ask them to trust a system that we know does not mean them any good.

This is so much bigger than the vast majority of you understand. A wise man once said that “White Supremacy Racism is absolutely nothing without black compliance.” Willful and unquestionable compliance does not free us from oppression, it makes us easier targets.

True respect for authority is like any other type of respect, it has to be earned, and when a kid senses that the authority figure does not have their best interest at hand, they will likely buck them. No, we don’t need to teach our kids blind obedience to authority, that is how we got here in the first place. Respect is earned, and you can’t expect black kids to have a respect for a system that is designed to bring about their demise. Yes, they are acting out! I don’t have to wonder why, but you should!

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Dr. Rick Wallace, Ph.D.

I can only imagine what that young lady is going through at this point, but what I refuse to do is make this about her blatant disrespect for authority, especially when authority figures in this particular system have proven that they do not care about students of color.

As far as the kids in the room, it was not their responsibility to protect her. They were victims as well. They were sent a very stern message that they have no voice, nor do they have a protector.

What blacks should be doing is focusing on building something of our own that will be designed to empower our children to excel and compete in this world, instead of being perpetual victims who are constantly forced to find ways to explain away the hostile actions towards our children.

The truth is that this little girl may have shown more courage in her willful defiance than the vast majority of those who are intent on making this incident about her. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace, Ph.D.

Updated Commentary: October 31, 2015 | by Dave Champion | Courtesy of Dave Champion’s Liberty

NEW INFO on South Carolina Beatdown!

On Oct 28th, 2015 I posted one of my famous – or is it ‘infamous’ – “trunk rants”; this one dealing with South Carolina deputy Ben Fields’ violent criminal attack on a 16 year old high school girl who was being uncooperative in response to instructions from the school staff.

Well I’m going to give you some facts the mainstream media isn’t telling you, as well as correcting some information they’ve gotten completely wrong.

The victim’s family reached out to me after seeing my video, and we spoke on the phone last night.

It turns out that the victim has some mental health issues. She’s schizophrenic and bi-polar. When a person is diagnosed with both, it’s called schizoaffective disorder. The victim had been in treatment and was determined to have reached a point where she could attend public school. As you can imagine, a person with schizoaffective disorder isn’t going to act like everyone else at all times. But more importantly, the school was well aware of her medical issues. If there is one guy you don’t want to send to deal with a teenage girl with mental issues, it would be an aggressive angry cop on steroids.

Lest people imagine her condition makes her violent or disruptive, in fact it’s just the opposite. The family tells me that by natural temperament she is a very quiet girl and her meds make her even more so. In fact, they tell me that even around family it takes effort to get her to engage in even a small bit of conversation.

This dovetails with the factual account of what happened in the classroom. While defenders of her being violently attacked claim she was “disruptive” in the classroom, that’s not accurate. The teacher’s initial issue was that the girl was not participating in the class. That description appears to be based on the girl looking at her phone, which is against school policy. That makes perfect sense for a quiet introspective teenage girl with mental health issues and who is taking meds that, according to her family, make her even more quiet.

Despite the school knowing about her condition, she was told to leave the class and go to a “discipline room”. That’s the equivalent of what was known as “detention” in my day. The girl declined to follow those instructions, saying she’d only glanced at her phone for a second. The teacher then summoned an administrator who repeated the instructions. Again the girl declined. So far there is no error by the school. They were simply giving the student an instruction. But what happened next is a MONUMENTAL error. Knowing her mental health issues they then called in a thug in uniform – known to the students as “Officer Slam” or “The Slammer”. And how do you think he got that nickname? The answer is pretty obvious; slamming people to the ground is his trademark. It’s what he does when a student is uncooperative. Talk about a man who should not be working around teens. Talk about sending the worst message possible to young people! And of course the rest you’ve seen in the videos of the deputy’s violent attack on the girl.

I wonder about the people who defend the deputy. Their lies and gross distortion are many and disgusting, but due to time constraints I’ll only address a few.

One claim is that 1 of the 3 videos shows the girl striking the deputy in the face. Not even remotely true. What the video QUITE CLEARLY shows is the girl swinging her arm upward AFTER the deputy initiated his violent attack, as her chair is being tipped backward. There are two possible interpretations of her actions, and neither condemns her. First, is that as she realizes she is being attacked she was attempting to defend herself. If that was the case, I don’t blame her a bit for defending herself against an illegal violent attacker. But, I don’t believe that’s what happened.

What happens when you’re sitting calmly in a chair and joker suddenly rocks it backward hard without warning. Right, your hands immediately fly up and forward in an autonomic response; it’s your body attempting to shift weight and momentum to counteract the backward tipping motion. We see the same thing in bull riding. The rider’s free arm is elevated and flails back and forth to counteract the affects of the tipping action created by the movement of the animal beneath him. It seems readily apparent to me that is what is seen in the one video that the deputy’s defenders misuse to try to justify Fields’ actions.

Another is that the school had ordered the teen off campus and the deputy was there to arrest her for trespass. As previously discussed, the sole request of the school was to move to the “discipline room”, so there was no trespassing involved.

Another general claim, based on nothing but a desire to justify Fields’ actions, is that he was arresting her for some charge of which the video viewers are unaware. Nope. The teen committed no criminal act, which means there was no basis for an arrest, nor did Fields at any time tell his superiors during the internal affairs investigation that he was affecting an arrest. It’s just lies from those who support any and all violence by cops.

One version of their lies is that the teen had violated section 420 of Chapter 17 of the South Carolina criminal code. In this instance I don’t know whether to attribute the false characterization to lies or just ignorance.

The opening sentence of section 420 is, “It shall be unlawful for any person willfully or unnecessarily to interfere with or to disturb in any way or in any place the students or teachers of any school or college in this State, or to loiter about such school or college premises, or to act in an obnoxious manner thereon…

Statutes are interpreted by what are called in law, “the rules of statutory construction.” One of the rules of statutory construction is that the phrase “any person” when used in a statute that specifically names other classes of person as the persons upon whom the prohibited action is conducted, excludes the named classes from the meaning of “any person”.

So, since section 420 reads, “It shall be illegal to…interfere with or disturb…students or teachers”, the law presumes that students and teachers are not within the meaning of “any person”. Accordingly, deputy Fields was not arresting the teen for a nonexistent violation of section 420 – nor did he claim to internal affairs investigators that he was affecting an arrest for section 420. It’s just made up lies by cop worshippers.

And of course all of what I just explained is validated by the fact that Sheriff Lott fired Fields. If Fields had been affecting an arrest when he became violent with the teen, he might have arguably received a suspension for unnecessary use of force, but he would not have been fired. He was fired because he was a peace officer who can only use violence to affect a detainment, which requires reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct, or an arrest, which requires probable cause of criminal conduct. Neither of which existed in this matter.

In closing, I have to wonder how much of the defense of Fields is race-based. I wonder how many people, whether consciously or subconsciously, consider a big, clean-cut, squared-away looking, white deputy being violent to a teenage black girl they consider “disrespectful”, to be what America is all about. Because…well…you know…”Them uppity niggers gotta be shown who’s boss.” I’m pretty confident that had it been a 300 pound black deputy smashing a little white girl on the concrete, 90% of those who are so disgustingly supportive of Fields would be screaming for that black deputy’s badge. It’s a shame than all too many Americans still think that way.

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