No Child Left Behind

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Unless, of course, they're expelled for having their wrists broken by school security guards.
A young black woman was attacked by a Knight High School security guard in Palmdale, CA, for not sufficiently cleaning up the floor after dropping a piece of birthday cake on it. He subsequently broke her arm, then he and his buddy attacked the folks who were using their cell phones to videotape and take pictures of their attack.
The mother who complained was herself arrested and is now suspended without pay from her job WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT!
The young woman and the two who bore witness to the attack by taking photo and video evidence WERE ALSO ARRESTED for assaulting the officer of the high school security. [In addition to assault charges] The young woman was also arrested for littering as well.

Watch this video: the girl went back to clean up the dropped cake three times and finally left for class when the security guard decided to get all George Wallace on her.



As Brownfemipower points out, shit like this does not exactly help black (or brown, or poor) kids with that whole "stay in school and succeed" party line. And no, this isn't an isolated incident: in March, Florida police arrested and cuffed a kindergarten girl for having a tantrum, a few years ago there was a lawsuit filed over frequent arrests of Indian children at school in South Dakota, the drug raid at Stratford High School, where--though the student body is 80% white--90 of the 107 students arrested were black. And of course you've heard--I hope!--of the Jena 6. I'm willing to bet you all can come up with other stories like this, too.

Then of course there are the high-profile cases of police violence/harassment of black adults: Amadou Diallo and Rodney King are the famous cases, but here are a few more recent ones: Kathryn Johnson, Jessie Lee Williams, Jr., Timothy Stansbury, Robert Davis, Frank Jude, Jr., Timothy Stansbury, Jr., Juan Herrera, Donovan Jackson,

Whether you want to admit that this kind of racist authoritarian bullshit is endemic or not, you have to acknowledge that there's good reason for young black people to distrust authority figures. Especially when the kid videotaping the assault on the cake-dropping girl also gets roughed up and arrested, and the girl's mother gets arrested--and suspended from her job--for marching into the school--as any parent would after a security guard broke her daughter's wrist and demanding the guard's arrest.

Below is footage from a protest at the school last Friday.


Another news story here. The moms of the students arrested are demanding that the guard be fired and their children's expulsions reversed.

Bitch_PhD is amazed by the women's restraint; she'd be suing the pants off the guard, the principal, and the district, if it were her kid.

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