I, just like the vast majority of you out there, immediately became well acquainted with the incident that occurred at Spring Valley High School involving a 16-year old black girl getting violently thrown out of her chair and being dragged on the ground by her hair by a police officer, after allegedly refusing to remove herself from her desk. The video of the girl's arrest sparked widespread outrage and questions about what role police should play in schools and how biased this sort of violent behavior may be against minority communities.

I do not claim to have complete understanding of the entire situation, but I think very few things the student could have done would have justified the cop's reaction. It would alarm me if it was one of the school's first thoughts to call the police because of a teen's refusal to leave her desk as compared to them attempting to have an actual discussion with her, even if a school counselor would have been necessary.

Would this have happened if the student were white? I don't think so. It's not a mystery that police, just like all of us, have certain biases against other people. Some of these are probably justified, but most are not. In the particular case of the classroom, I don't think there is much logical justification. The issue regarding their prejudices is that they are able to have this be reflected in the nature of their work and thus they put many innocent lives in danger because of their weak judgment.

It is particularly amusing to me how easily many people are perfectly OK with such violence just because they think it is a job requirement of the officer. It is truly pathetic that many people, particularly black people, have been seriously injured due to ridiculous and overblown judgment of the officers carrying the guns and throwing such nasty punches.

I do not believe in Hell. If I did, I would say that there is a special place there for people like many of these police officers. It must take a special kind of incompetence and hunger for control through violence in order to beat and kill these young people. It's truly pathetic that they feel justified exerting force of that magnitude on kids who are clearly not posing a threat to you.

Sadly, these kinds of things happen all the time. People try to defend it by saying, “The officer was in danger." Most videos have shown, including this one, that the suspect posed no immediate threat to the officer or anyone else.

Following the above-mentioned statement, typically, is an offered solution as to how the victim could have avoided being pummeled, shot, or even killed — “Well, if you just wouldn’t break the rules...” This is as if the automatic consequence of disobeying authority is serious physical injury.

It’s as if certain pockets of society have become so comfortable with state-sanctioned violence that they’ve come to engage in what can best be described as “police worship,” that is, the belief that individuals in their capacity as officers can do no wrong.

The officer who did this to the girl was fired. Strangely enough, he ended up getting a lot of support from members of the school. It's always amusing how those on the more conservative side respond to things like this. They are typically on the side of "law and justice," and place way too much confidence in the officers' judgments. Of course, they probably assume a sort of "immoral" nature to the girl's actions that they wouldn't be inclined to assume for a white girl doing the exact same thing.