Police Brutality or Classroom Management?
When I heard the story of a white South Carolina police officer “brutalizing,” “man handling” and “flipping” a black teenage girl and “throwing her across the room,” I thought, “here we go again.” The list of similar white police or vigilante abuses of African-Americans has gotten so long it is tedious to enumerate. From Rodney King beaten in LA to Michael Brown shot in Ferguson, Missouri to Eric Garner choked to death in New York and, in my mind the most egregious case of all which has gotten the least attention, Sandra Bland arrested in Texas and thrown into a jail cell (where she eventually committed suicide) for “failing to signal a lane change.” (Have you driven in the USA recently? Does anyone there signal a lane change?) http://abc7chicago.com/853139/#videoplayer These and a dozen more episodes in the unfortunate history of law enforcement in the USA share the pattern of white authorities and black victims, but each one is different in its own way. We are and shoul