Friday, October 30, 2015

Spring Valley and Big Brother

I assume you all have heard about the recent thing that happened at Spring Valley high school in NC the other day, but for a brief recap: Girl was acting up in class, no details on what exactly she was doing, I have hear anything from "not participating" to "being disruptive and aggressive." It doesn't really matter, on of the safety officers, a cop named Fields, was called in to do... something about it, this resulted in the officer physically assaulting the girl, who ended up with a concussion.
Unusually in cases of police being douchebags, the Fields was fired fairly swiftly and may be charged with assorted crimes at some point.

Honestly I wasn't gonna right about this at first, it is a pretty much run of the mill example of white cop on black youth violence that happens daily here in the states, but it keeps getting linked on my FB page and there is always some toolbox who crawls out of the woodwork to say the girl deserved it they are wrong, and either racist, fascist, or both.

A short primer on when it is acceptable for an authority figure to inflict violence on those they are there to ensure the safety of:
  1. Never are you fucking out of your mind?
  2. ... okay I guess if they start trying to murder someone then fine
 Option 2 was clearly not happening, so we fall back on option 1, apparently he was out of his fucking mind, and everyone who supports him is too, I mentioned race a paragraph or two ago, though no official source has claimed this was racially motivated, I suspect that maybe, just maybe, if she was a white girl, this guy wouldn't have gone off on her like that, I also accept I could be wrong, however there are still racists in this equation! Those apologists who say she should have listened to him, she should have not been disruptive, he was probably having a bad day, don't start none, won't be none, and so on.

Fuck you all who say this, it doesn't fucking matter what she did, she could have been insulting his mother and threatening to murder him in his sleep for all I care, virtually nothing a teenage girl, or boy for that matter, can do while sitting at a desk is a threat to a fully grown police officer who is presumably trained to take care of himself in life or death situations every day. Fuck me, I've had bad days too, been stressed at work, I've never decided to beat the shit out a customer because they gave me lip!
I know I am not a cop, I don't give a damn, he knew the job was hard when he took it, did he expect being an authority figure in a building full of teenagers would mean they look at him with love and compassion? Has he ever met a teenager? He deserves to lose his job and possibly more, and you all defending him deserve huge pustules on your genitalia.

Let's move on, why the hell do we live in a world where cops patrol our schools now? Have you seen these people? They literally shoot unarmed kids every week, we are lucky that one of them hasn't decided to shoot up a classroom and claim self defense because someone threw a paper airplane, or whatever the hell kids throw in classrooms these days. We have a school shooting of some sort virtually every week as well, these cops are clearly not stopping it.

I've said before on different topics, that if you treat someone like a criminal for their whole life, they are likely to start believing it. Putting cops in schools, especially white cops in minority schools, is a good way to get kids used to how they will be treated for the rest of their lives I guess, better start them early before they develop ambition or ideals. Can't have them getting all uppity and thinking they are people who deserve rights.

But hey, the innocent have nothing to fear right? Big Brother is your friend after all. The illusion of safety and the realities of power must come before anything else.
It's slimy, it's creepy, it's another baby step on the road to the police state that we've been going down for about two decades now. Our rights and ideals are worth more than this.

1 comment:

remigious said...

I've been kind of shocked and disheartened at the number of people defending the cop.