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  • 6 months ago
ESSENCE Live hits the streets of NYC to see how we are coping with the assault on the South Carolina student.
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00:00My initial reaction was shock.
00:10I just felt like it was very outrageous, like blatantly, how aggressive the police officer was.
00:16It really broke my heart. I have family in South Carolina. It just excited me.
00:20I'm accustomed to students misbehaving in class, but when I saw that, I thought that the adult in charge really did not take charge of that situation.
00:27School is supposed to be somewhere where you feel safe. You're not supposed to be attacked so viciously.
00:33Well, what was she doing to deserve that, and what were they doing? And sometimes there's really nothing you can do to avoid those types of situations.
00:40No matter what this child was doing, it should have not gotten to the extent of the violence that I saw in the video.
00:45He literally threw her across the room.
00:48I don't feel like you should have put your hands on a female like that, especially a young female.
00:52She's not even an adult, and you're a grown man.
00:55I mean, as black people, we're constantly going to be hassled by the police, but I've never, to be honest, seen something like that in person in my life, and I wouldn't even know how to react.
01:03Nowadays, considering the whole police brutality issues, I feel like, you know, just do what you have to do, but I also know your rights.
01:11In order to deal with children, African-American children, you have to use violence. No, this message just continues over and over again. This has to stop.
01:18More than his job should have been taken, I feel like he should have been in jail.
01:22It's disgusting, it's appalling, and I'm disappointed in the police officer that took that action.
01:26People have very little respect for black women, and so I felt like that kind of reiterated that feeling and that point, you know.
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