Reply #169: Maybe you'll understand what NCEvilDUer said: [View All]

"If you really expect a rational reaction from a pissed off 14 year old

you don't know kids."

"The cop, as a professional, should have known better, and known how to deal with it."

"A kid that is swearing as she walks away

IS A KID THAT IS WALKING AWAY."


My take is that the cop wanted to prove his manhood because it pissed him off that the girl was swearing as she walked away.

She walked away just as he told her to and then he grabbed her and escalated the situation.

You should really go do volunteer work with kids in foster homes, who have often been abused, abandoned, and generally given the shit end of the stick, let them tell you about their lives.

I don't doubt she was out of control, I have seen plenty of fights between teenaged girls and they are worse than fights between boys. But she was walking away until he grabbed her and he is supposed to be an adult and a professional law enforcement officer trained to deal with unruly people without harming them.

As a teacher, I couldn't have laid a hand on her without possible disciplinary repercussions and when kids pitched fits in class or in the hall, I didn't have hand cuffs or a taser so I had to talk to them. Talking to kids often works well. In GA, by the way, it is against the law to paddle students, which is non-lethal, but cops can taser kids. It's not logical.