My current event article this week is called, “Rough Student Arrest Puts Spotlight on School Police”
I found my article on nytimes.com. My article talks about how a police officer, did his job and tried to control a girl in class. On Wednesday, Sheriff Leon Lott of Richland County fired the deputy, Ben Fields. saying that his actions violated department policy. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the F.B.I. are investigating. On the videos that make it look much worse, Mr. Fields, who is white, grabbed the girl, who is black, lifting her from her seat. She resists so he moves her chair backward until her desk and chair fall over, slamming her to the floor. All in a few seconds. In Texas, police usually give tickets for misbehavior that is not criminal to offenders as young as 4, and students who fail to appear in juvenile court or pay fines later find that there are warrants for their arrest. I think this should be used and taken seriously everywhere. I think social media and everybody posting this video and adding bad media onto it made the situation worse. The police officer would not just throw her to the ground if she wasnt doing anything. This event effects me and the world very greatly. If everybody starts making big deals and firing and suing police officers, than they’ll be too scared to do their job and they will stop trying to fight crime, because everything they do will cause problems.