Broletariat
6th January 2011, 14:50
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/alab-j06.shtml
fucking pigs, absolutely disgusting.
The text of the lawsuit includes some truly chilling examples. B.J., a teen, was accused of mumbling a profanity to a substitute. B.J. maintains his innocence and says another student spoke the profanity. B.J. was asked to leave the classroom to tuck his shirt into his pants. When he returned, B.J. maintains that another student muttered a curse at the teacher; the teacher sent him back outside the room.
Outside, an assistant principal began patting him down and going through his pockets. A second assistant principal came up and the two held B.J. to a set of lockers as a police officer blasted pepper spray directly into B.J.’s face and eyes. B.J. fell to the ground, blind and choking. The officer shoved him fully onto the ground with her knee and handcuffed him.
One of the assistant principals is accused of saying, “Woo! That’s the first macing of the year!” B.J. was kept in an office for over 20 minutes before being taken to a hospital where he was not treated, but was asked to sign a medical release waiver, even though he could not see.
In another case two sisters were pepper sprayed. The older sister, G.S. “was jogging across the lawn outside Huffman High School when Defendant Clark grabbed her from behind by the waist. He did not identify himself as a law enforcement officer or say anything before grabbing her,” the suit says. When she struggled and freed herself from the attacker, the officer responded by drawing his pepper spray and spraying her directly in the face.
Another officer grabbed G.S.’s sister who was approaching G.S. at the time, also from behind, while officer Clark sprayed G.S. a second time, causing her to collapse on the ground while macing her sister indirectly at the same time. The officers left the girls where they were. G.S. went into the school office requesting that they call for medical treatment. Emergency Medical Service arrived at the school, but did not provide any medical treatment.
G.S.’s mother arrived at the school shortly after the incident. At first she was blocked from entering the school and officer Clark threatened to arrest her if she continued to ask about her daughter. Later she was allowed in, but forced to sit in an adjoining room for 45 minutes while she heard her daughter screaming, “I can’t breathe!” from the next room.
Another student, T.A.P., was accused of smoking cigarettes. T.A.P. explained that she smoked before school started, off school grounds. After being told to go home, the student was tripped as she exited the building and held on the ground by the vice principal’s foot. The student was allowed up and she saw another officer reaching for his belt. Fearing what would happen, she began to run.
She was grabbed by officers and eventually pinned by five grown men holding her arms and legs, one of whom sprayed her in the face with pepper spray. She felt like choking and the skin around her eyes was damaged and peeling for a week after she was sprayed. She was taken to the hospital but not treated and asked to sign a medical release waiver. She was then taken to a detention center until her mother picked her up at 5 p.m. Student T.A.P. described this as the second attack on her with pepper spray.
It should be noted that, with the exception of the two sisters referenced above, all of the other students, rather than being given immediate medical treatment, were taken to a juvenile detention facility where they were held until as late as 7 p.m. when family members discovered their whereabouts and came for them.
fucking pigs, absolutely disgusting.
The text of the lawsuit includes some truly chilling examples. B.J., a teen, was accused of mumbling a profanity to a substitute. B.J. maintains his innocence and says another student spoke the profanity. B.J. was asked to leave the classroom to tuck his shirt into his pants. When he returned, B.J. maintains that another student muttered a curse at the teacher; the teacher sent him back outside the room.
Outside, an assistant principal began patting him down and going through his pockets. A second assistant principal came up and the two held B.J. to a set of lockers as a police officer blasted pepper spray directly into B.J.’s face and eyes. B.J. fell to the ground, blind and choking. The officer shoved him fully onto the ground with her knee and handcuffed him.
One of the assistant principals is accused of saying, “Woo! That’s the first macing of the year!” B.J. was kept in an office for over 20 minutes before being taken to a hospital where he was not treated, but was asked to sign a medical release waiver, even though he could not see.
In another case two sisters were pepper sprayed. The older sister, G.S. “was jogging across the lawn outside Huffman High School when Defendant Clark grabbed her from behind by the waist. He did not identify himself as a law enforcement officer or say anything before grabbing her,” the suit says. When she struggled and freed herself from the attacker, the officer responded by drawing his pepper spray and spraying her directly in the face.
Another officer grabbed G.S.’s sister who was approaching G.S. at the time, also from behind, while officer Clark sprayed G.S. a second time, causing her to collapse on the ground while macing her sister indirectly at the same time. The officers left the girls where they were. G.S. went into the school office requesting that they call for medical treatment. Emergency Medical Service arrived at the school, but did not provide any medical treatment.
G.S.’s mother arrived at the school shortly after the incident. At first she was blocked from entering the school and officer Clark threatened to arrest her if she continued to ask about her daughter. Later she was allowed in, but forced to sit in an adjoining room for 45 minutes while she heard her daughter screaming, “I can’t breathe!” from the next room.
Another student, T.A.P., was accused of smoking cigarettes. T.A.P. explained that she smoked before school started, off school grounds. After being told to go home, the student was tripped as she exited the building and held on the ground by the vice principal’s foot. The student was allowed up and she saw another officer reaching for his belt. Fearing what would happen, she began to run.
She was grabbed by officers and eventually pinned by five grown men holding her arms and legs, one of whom sprayed her in the face with pepper spray. She felt like choking and the skin around her eyes was damaged and peeling for a week after she was sprayed. She was taken to the hospital but not treated and asked to sign a medical release waiver. She was then taken to a detention center until her mother picked her up at 5 p.m. Student T.A.P. described this as the second attack on her with pepper spray.
It should be noted that, with the exception of the two sisters referenced above, all of the other students, rather than being given immediate medical treatment, were taken to a juvenile detention facility where they were held until as late as 7 p.m. when family members discovered their whereabouts and came for them.