Justice Department to Investigate Officer’s Flipping of High School Student

Outside the school on Tuesday morning, some were shocked by what they had seen in the video, which had set off a new round of angry and anguished debate over how police officers treat African-Americans. Others said they were not shocked at all...

Reader comments are interesting.  One reader of this article wrote:

For anyone who is seeking to JUSTIFY this treatment of this child by a man three times her size--stop. Just stop. There is no justification. Can't deal with stubborn teenagers intelligently? Don't work in a school. I am a petite female and I have broken up actual fights between high school students with only my voice and demeanor, so I am pretty sure this officer did not need to use that kind of heedless force. He could have seriously injured her. It's clear that his anger took over. What a lousy example for the kids. If you look at the video you can tell that they are scared and stunned. I had some troublesome kids in my classes--sure--but I never would have wanted to see any of them treated this way. I can't believe the teacher didn't say anything. Appalling. And how is that kid going to go back into that classroom with that teacher whom she can clearly not trust?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/us/spring-valley-high-school-sc-officer-arrest.html

An earlier version of the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/us/officers-classroom-fight-with-student-is-caught-on-video.html
and another, with another version of the video is here:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/watch-sc-cop-assault-student-sitting-her