Rolesville High School Body slam incident

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Originally Posted by Emitchell

That being said, an LEO response should be scaled to the the circumstance/threat. Slamming a kid onto a concrete floor (with the risk of life threatening injury) is not an appropriate reaction to ignoring a request.

If the kid was waving a gun or knife, yes, that is an immediate deadly threat to surrounding people and the officer that has to be neutralized. That student was not an immediate, deadly threat. Removing her from the situation did not require slamming her on the floor.

The student wasn't slammed onto a concrete floor, she was thrown to the floor; it's material composition is irrelevant. Also, unless you have been trained as a police officer there's no way to know what's appropriate. I am not trained in that line of work and don't know what reaction was required.

And the force he applied, while we all in the peanut gallery can debate its potency or appropriateness, was fundamentally equal to the threat. Are you actually suggesting that throwing her to the ground was an appropriate reaction is she possessed a deadly weapon?

Originally Posted by mas23

Very unnecessary.

The girl looked like she barely weighed 100 lbs

Her weight is irrelevant. He elected to use a maneuver and while her weight likely contributed to ifs efficacy, not being an android with a computer-like ability to adjust for weight, height and wind shear, it may very well have still been the exact right thing to have done. But once again, I don't know because I haven't been trained in that trade and I have yet to see any additional credible information to determine if it was right/wrong.

And for the record, when I think of excessive force this is what comes to mind: EXCLUSIVE: Ex-tennis star James Blake tackled by white cops - NY Daily News