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Eh, I went to a rough school that utilized them properly. This officer wasn’t fit for patrol, so got stuck in a school and further revealed themselves as ill fitted for the position.
Because he thought a 12 year old child might have hit him? 12?!?  Wtf?

Before his employment with the city of Kenosha and the school district, he was employed by the Lake Geneva Police Department. In his final year of employment there, his field performance was marked as “unacceptable,” and he was described as “emotional, panicked, or loses their temper,” the suit said. NBC News has reached out to Lake Geneva police to confirm this account. 

Who the fuck thinks that’s the right person to police middle schoolers? >


the right person to police middle schoolers

The fact that we are using police on middle schoolers at all is already a failure. >

My middle school had an officer on campus at all times. I don't recall them ever taking any action while I was there, but it was definitely a tool for copaganda. The admin often celebrated him in various ways, he'd get high-fives in the halls. 
Remember, kids, the cops are totally your friends! :) >


I don't recall them ever taking any action while I was there

Right!  And this is the best thing an SRO can do.  Nothing.    
Also, they have not really stopped any school shootings so far (maybe once, kind of).  School counselors have done a much better job.     
The best you can hope for is someone who doesn't unnecessarily arrest anyone and spreads their copaganda in peace. >

We had an officer at my high school, I had an ex-friend go nasty and threaten to bring a gun to school. so i did once get to report someone for that! 
but yeah the officer did nothing to stop the bomb in my school earlier lol >


“As Officer Guetschow was attempting to break up the fight, he was 
pushed to the ground, his head violently striking a table as he fell to 
the floor. Officer Guetschow suffered a concussion, significant swelling
 and a contusion of the head during this incident. Despite his injuries,
 and through the use of a trained law enforcement technique, he was 
ultimately able to gain control over the student and escorted the 
student to school administrators and on-duty law enforcement officers,” 
Hall said. 

Hooboy, what a hero, bravely fighting through the pain to subdue a 12-year-old girl. >

Man, you can really tell nobody has actually experienced what public school education is like, and how dangerous "kids" can be. Just replied to another comment with this but:

Several years ago when I taught 7th grade, our SRO had to separate two girls fighting. One backed off but the other one did enough damage to require several intense surgeries and years of recovery. He was 6-foot, 250 pounds and wearing a kevlar vest when this happened. Afterward the P.D. gave him a desk job and the position was really hard to fill.
That being said, I know 0 details about this case. All I'm saying is, don't underestimate how much damage a "kid" can do.

So many armchair experts out there that apparently know the right things to do in these situations,
 would fall apart within the first month of a job like this. >

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill lol these cops should be ashamed. One 12-year-old girl is not going to hurt a trained cop. >

I'm telling you that exact thing happened. One 12-year-old girl really, really wounded a trained cop. I don't remember how many years our SRO had been an officer with the local P.D. before he took that position, but he wasn't new. He had great rapport with the kids too. >

Some people just are not psychologically capable of being a good police officer. Given a bit of power and authority they change into monsters and it gets worse when they are in small groups of other cops it seems. >

If only we had some sort of way of preventing people like that from being cops >

“Guetschow’s use of the chokehold against Jane Doe was motivated by malice and anger at his belief that he was punched.” What a sniveling coward of a Cop... Any police officer who can't manage their, "malice and anger" in an interaction with a 12 year old child, does not deserve the badge. Fuck right off >


anger at his belief that he was punched

Imagine being too dumb to know if you're even being punched or not. If it's down to a question like that, maybe it doesn't warrant that much force, or much attention at all. >

Had it been a teacher who had reacted this way there would have been no question, they would have been fired immediately. It seems utterly insane we can't hold law enforcement to those same standards. >

So two adults who thought the girls were about to fight stood there kibitzing about it until one attacked. JFC. >

When the man in the back said everyone attack it turned into a ball room blitz. >

We can discuss the fact that the victim was a 12-year-old and a girl and what level of force was necessary to subdue her, but you know what universal component of neck-kneeling makes absolutely no goddamn sense to me? The space between the shoulder blades is only 6 inches away. If these dumbass cops would just put their knee there, they would have a completely noncontroversial way of controlling their suspect and avoid the scandal entirely. >

Right like, what we can't even get the easy ask of "stop using the most infamous police move in recent memory to kill people who can't fight back anyways"? I'm starting to think these folks who want us to dismantle the police might be onto something here, these guys are really just not even trying to not kill people >

What a loser. It's a little girl, you can't take her out as is??
No wonder people are dying, if you have to act that way with a little girl then a grown man must make you shit your pants and reach for the gun. >

I think the NWA had it figured out. We should've listened >

Ice Cube’s words of wisdom >

Once an entitled, power tripping POS... always an entitled, power tripping POS. >

Get Cops out of schools.  They have no business there whatsoever.