When school guards attack: news at 10

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shamelessly ripped from digg

In an even more shocking development the security guards later had the mother of the girl arrested after she sought out an attorney and demanded that the guard be arrested, telling her that if she wanted the guard detained then she herself would also be charged with battery after she allegedly pushed the guard and an assistant principal of the school. She has also been suspended from her job at another school in the county.

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.

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[ViviTheMage]

they always say 'in an even more shocking development' .........

 

[BrokenVisage]

Hard to believe.. but this is the world we live in now.

 

[dainthomas]

"hold still nappy-head"

Oops.

This will not end well for the district or the cookie cops.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

"hold still nappy-head"

Oops.

This will not end well for the district or the cookie cops.

serious. the security guards at my HS were cool as shit

 

[vhx]

Lol that security guard is going to get owned by any decent lawyer, as well as the school. Definite use of excessive force.

 

[MrDudeMan]

That article leaves a lot to be desired. I find it hard to believe it was as straight forward as they are making it out to be. Reporters suck, hard.

I'm not saying the guy didn't go way overboard, because he did, but still, that report sucks.

 

[child of wonder]

That mother and daughter will soon be very rich.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
That article leaves a lot to be desired. I find it hard to believe it was as straight forward as they are making it out to be. Reporters suck, hard.

I'm not saying the guy didn't go way overboard, because he did, but still, that report sucks.

I was thinking the same thing. Both mother and daughter are acting as if they're completely innocent - but I'm sure there's a reason the mother was arrested.

Not enough details - and that tiny clip of video didn't really show anything but a (possibly way overboard) guard holding a student - nothing of what led up to it.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: child of wonder
That mother and daughter will soon be very rich.

Probably, and that sucks. Not because they weren't (possibly) wronged, but justice coming from the pockets of the taxpayers isn't really justice.

 

[MrWizzard]

Sue happy people, let say they win and get a $1000000 settlement because they are greedy and what not. I can see medical bills being paid, if any, I see she got an arm sling on, probably the lawyer did that to ham it up as much as possible. Maybe a few 100 in pain and suffering. But no, it?s something that will affect the rest of her life, she was going to become a great artist and now the trauma will affect her carrier and future earnings.



Public school system will pay, and guess who pays for public schools. YAY

 

[The Boston Dangler]

wtf? that looked a lot more like a prison than a school. several arrests, including the student taping? the officials have no comment?

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Sue happy people, let say they win and get a $1000000 settlement because they are greedy and what not. I can see medical bills being paid, if any, I see she got an arm sling on, probably the lawyer did that to ham it up as much as possible. Maybe a few 100 in pain and suffering. But no, it?s something that will affect the rest of her life, she was going to become a great artist and now the trauma will affect her carrier and future earnings.



Public school system will pay, and guess who pays for public schools. YAY

So if someone broke your wrist for no reason you'd settle for a few hundred? Wouldn't want to be "sue-happy" I suppose.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Sue happy people, let say they win and get a $1000000 settlement because they are greedy and what not. I can see medical bills being paid, if any, I see she got an arm sling on, probably the lawyer did that to ham it up as much as possible. Maybe a few 100 in pain and suffering. But no, it?s something that will affect the rest of her life, she was going to become a great artist and now the trauma will affect her carrier and future earnings.



Public school system will pay, and guess who pays for public schools. YAY

So if someone broke your wrist for no reason you'd settle for a few hundred? Wouldn't want to be "sue-happy" I suppose.

Actually, no, I wouldn't be. I would certainly make sure they paid all of my medical expenses and compensate me for any missed work, but I wouldn't impose the pussy tax and say the ruined my life and the only way to make me feel better is to inflate my bank account. Only dumbasses do that.

 

[MrWizzard]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Sue happy people, let say they win and get a $1000000 settlement because they are greedy and what not. I can see medical bills being paid, if any, I see she got an arm sling on, probably the lawyer did that to ham it up as much as possible. Maybe a few 100 in pain and suffering. But no, it?s something that will affect the rest of her life, she was going to become a great artist and now the trauma will affect her carrier and future earnings.



Public school system will pay, and guess who pays for public schools. YAY

So if someone broke your wrist for no reason you'd settle for a few hundred? Wouldn't want to be "sue-happy" I suppose.

Medical expenses lost wages during healing, maybe 1k for pain and suffering (going to the doctors getting perscriptions). That?s about all I would expect. Oh and a reprimand/apology for the person who did it, if I truly was doing nothing wrong.

What is wrong with people these days they actually think they are entitled to it.

 

[child of wonder]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Actually, no, I wouldn't be. I would certainly make sure they paid all of my medical expenses and compensate me for any missed work, but I wouldn't impose the pussy tax and say the ruined my life and the only way to make me feel better is to inflate my bank account. Only dumbasses do that.

Yeah.... rich dumbasses. lol

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Sue happy people, let say they win and get a $1000000 settlement because they are greedy and what not. I can see medical bills being paid, if any, I see she got an arm sling on, probably the lawyer did that to ham it up as much as possible. Maybe a few 100 in pain and suffering. But no, it?s something that will affect the rest of her life, she was going to become a great artist and now the trauma will affect her carrier and future earnings.



Public school system will pay, and guess who pays for public schools. YAY

So if someone broke your wrist for no reason you'd settle for a few hundred? Wouldn't want to be "sue-happy" I suppose.

Actually, no, I wouldn't be. I would certainly make sure they paid all of my medical expenses and compensate me for any missed work...

So if the security guard offered you a 50k settlement (without suing), you'd turn it down? Sure.

There's a difference between frivolous lawsuits (like suing for ten million because you tripped on a curb or something) and valid lawsuits for someone intentionally assaulting you. Rational people can be against the former while still supporting the latter.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

"hold still nappy-head"

Oops.

This will not end well for the district or the cookie cops.

I'd be more concerned about the fact that they broke a girl's arm because she dropped cake.

 

[MrWizzard]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Sue happy people, let say they win and get a $1000000 settlement because they are greedy and what not. I can see medical bills being paid, if any, I see she got an arm sling on, probably the lawyer did that to ham it up as much as possible. Maybe a few 100 in pain and suffering. But no, it?s something that will affect the rest of her life, she was going to become a great artist and now the trauma will affect her carrier and future earnings.



Public school system will pay, and guess who pays for public schools. YAY

So if someone broke your wrist for no reason you'd settle for a few hundred? Wouldn't want to be "sue-happy" I suppose.

Actually, no, I wouldn't be. I would certainly make sure they paid all of my medical expenses and compensate me for any missed work...

So if the security guard offered you a 50k settlement (without suing), you'd turn it down? Sure.

There's a difference between frivolous lawsuits (like suing for ten million because you tripped on a curb or something) and valid lawsuits for someone intentionally assaulting you. Rational people can be against the former while still supporting the latter.

Uh, I have never heard of someone just being offered a settlement amount unless they pursue some action. When insurance policies get involved, and it this case they will be. A SETTLEMENT is what 2 parties agree upon. Mom and daughter want 500K but insurance company keeps saying no and a lower amount until they accept.

EDIT: you did say without suing though, so it could possibly happen, but what is a guy that has 50K to offer just like that being a security guard for?

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: dainthomas

"hold still nappy-head"

Oops.

This will not end well for the district or the cookie cops.

I'd be more concerned about the fact that they broke a girl's arm because she dropped cake.

You'd think. However we all know what happened to the last guy who called someone a "nappy-head".

Sharpton is probably en route as we speak.

 

[Squisher]

In an even more shocking development the security guards later had the mother of the girl arrested after she sought out an attorney and demanded that the guard be arrested, telling her that if she wanted the guard detained then she herself would also be charged with battery after she allegedly pushed the guard and an assistant principal of the school. She has also been suspended from her job at another school in the county.

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.

OK, so the mother confronts the principle and guard loses her cool when she gets nowhere and pushes them. Then when she starts the suit they use the court system enact revenge against the mother, the kid, the video taping, and the videotaper's sibling?

How did the cake dropper assault the security guard? Because her wrist didn't break fast enough?

Man, I see so many suits coming from so many directions in this.

And the reason we sue is to remove from the system any systemic abuse by authority figures. Let's say the Principle and guard are fired, how can we assure that this won't happen again? By making those that answer to the taxpayers feel the monetary loss because they didn't put into place a workforce that was painfully aware that they would answer for their actions.

 

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PALMDALE, Sept. 26, 2007 (KABC-TV) - Three teens and a mother are arrested after a scuffle with security guards at Knight High School in Palmdale. An investigation is underway as to whether excessive force was used by the guards.

One of the students arrested caught the whole thing on video. The incident was instigated over cake.

It was a birthday party at Knight High School in Palmdale. Early last week, during lunch hour, students say the cake dropped, and then everything else dropped. There was mayhem and chaos. On the heels of this incident, a group of parents and students plan to hold a protest on Friday.

This is exclusive video that a student at William P. Knight High School in East Palmdale used his cell phone to capture video of 16-year-old Pleajhia Mervin being arrested by campus police early last week.

Mervin says a security guard slammed her against a table at a lunchroom at the high school and twisted her arms behind her back so violently, he broke her wrist. Her wrist is in a cast.

"He put my arm behind my back and he started raising it until it hurt, so I told him, 'Stop, it hurts.' He had slammed me on the table and told me to hold still. He called me a 'nappy-head,' and that's when I just started crying," said Mervin.

Mervin claims she was roughed up simply because she failed to pick up every crumb of a birthday cake she accidentally dropped on the floor of the lunchroom during a lunch-hour birthday celebration for a friend. She says she thought she cleaned up the mess, but the security guard thought otherwise.

"He said, 'You have to come pick the rest of this cake up.' So I said, 'I picked it up.' He gets on his walkie-talkie, he got a call, so I just started walking to class, and that's when he grabbed me," said Mervin.

Mervin says when the security guard realized he was being videotaped, he tackled the student shooting the video. She says another student captured photographs of that incident. She says the whole incident was unnecessary.

"I think that he could have had a better way of cuffing me and throwing me on the table," said Mervin.

Mervin's mother, Latrisha Majors, said when she rushed to the school demanding to see her daughter, she was accused of battering the principal. She says she was then arrested and forced to spend the night in jail.

"This has caused such a disruption in my life," said Majors. "I try to explain this, but I can't. The 'nappy-head' thing, she doesn't understand that there is prejudice going on every day, all day long. It's not right.

School officials had this to say:

"Good afternoon. I can just comment we did have an incident at our school last week. However, I would like to emphasize that we do have a safe campus. I've been working with our staff, with my district office staff, community leaders, and parents, to ensure that we continue to keep our campus safe for all students, but I want people to know that our focus here is academic excellence for all students," said Dr. Susan McDonald, principal of Knight High School.

Pleajhia Mervin has been expelled from school. She will have to go to an expulsion hearing. She says she's even been accused of battering the security guard, and was ticketed for littering. Her mother says she has retained a lawyer from the Cochran firm and plans to sue the school district. A group of parents, students and community activists plan to protest outside the school on Friday morning.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/st...ction=local&id=5677461

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: dainthomas

"hold still nappy-head"

Oops.

This will not end well for the district or the cookie cops.

I'd be more concerned about the fact that they broke a girl's arm because she dropped cake.

You'd think. However we all know what happened to the last guy who called someone a "nappy-head".

Sharpton is probably en route as we speak.

actually things worked out pretty well for that guy

 

[Number1]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
That article leaves a lot to be desired. I find it hard to believe it was as straight forward as they are making it out to be. Reporters suck, hard.

I'm not saying the guy didn't go way overboard, because he did, but still, that report sucks.

How reliable is that website anyway. They have a link to a 911 conspiracy story on their main page.

infowar main page

Shocking New Revelations On 9/11 Ground Zero Cover-Up

 

[waggy]

maybe the security guard is trying out for the chicago pd?