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[pecunium]

School Guards Break Child's Arm And Arrest Her For Dropping Cake

The girl, Pleajhai Mervin, told Fox News LA that she was bumped while queuing for lunch and dropped the cake. After being ordered to clean it up and then re-clean the spot three times, she attempted to leave the area out of embarrassment but was jumped on by security who forced her onto a table, breaking her wrist in the process....

The school expelled Pleajhai for five days before then having her arrested for battery and for littering (the dropping of the cake). Then they had the pupil who captured the video arrested along with his sister who was merely present at the scene.

Comments

[waterlilly.livejournal.com]

Everyone does have an agenda. The school's appears to be covering their ass at all costs. And, as pecunium points out in a later comment, the "food fight" story seems to contradict the footage. Why isn't everyone covered with food, if that's the case?

I think the original story, that she dropped some cake and gave the security goon an attitude about cleaning it up, which apparently prompted him to break her wrist while using excessive force to arrest her, is probably closer to the truth. I think the food fight thing is the school trying to make it sound like this was justifiable.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be surprising if the school was doing that. The force was not justifiable. Rarely is, with children. But they never want to put money into them until it is too late -- a security guard that works with teens would need EXTRA training I would think, because you would expect more sticky situations.

Hell, even 20 years ago, as I was crying out in pain from cramps in my Brooklyn school, in the hall, the security guard was yelling to PRAY THE PAIN AWAY! And if I wasn't fornicating, God wouldn't have been punishing me like that.

[waterlilly.livejournal.com]

Working with teens is a lot like working with cats. No one ever got any lasting good result from smacking a cat, even if it appeared that the cat richly deserved it. And they will insist on testing the patience of authority figures.

I went to Catholic school. I suspect the nuns would have suggested offering up your suffering to Jesus, which is just about as useless as praying it away. At least it's possible a nun might have had cramps at some point, unlike a male security guard.