Police Response to School Water Balloon Fight: Violence and Arrests

Count the overwrought responses to this incident. Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C., called police out due to what appears to be a water balloon fight (overwrought response number one). Police arrested seven of the students (overwrought response number two) and threw a teen apparently not involved at all to the ground, necessitating medical treatment (overwrought response number three).

WRAL television reports:

The mother of an Enloe High School student has filed a complaint with the Raleigh Police Department after an officer threw her son to the ground Thursday as police responded to a water balloon battle at the school.

Seven students and a parent were arrested.

Sophomore Jahbriel Morris wasn't among those charged, but he had to be treated at WakeMed for a cut above his eyebrow, a bruised shoulder, a scraped knee and a sore neck and back.

Morris, 15, said he was injured when a police officer grabbed him outside the school, knocked him down and drove his head into the ground at least twice.

"How he was taken down was the most disturbing because they took him down by his neck and slammed him," Kevin Hines, a parent who witnessed the incident as he was picking up his children after school, said Friday.

Hines went to complain to the principal about the excessive force he witnessed. He was arrested for trespassing (overwrought response number four).

(Hat tip to Swarley for the lead)

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Comments

[Live Free or Diet]

Good thing no one was shooting spitballs!

[JW]

Ah, officious thugs, both law and academic, exercising their prerogatives.

This is why we'll never reach Peak Retard.

[Fist of Etiquette]

We just can't let anyone have any fun anymore. I mean, Jesus Fucking Christ, reason. Do you have any idea how much fun it is to throw teenagers around?

[Sevo]

If they'd have had some dogs around, no people would have gotten injured.

[fish_remote]

I don't know Sevo if that incident in New York and L'Affaire Dorner were any indication the presence of a dog would have been all the pretext needed to start winging bullets in any random direction.

[Suthenboy]

Judges are elected. DAs are elected. School Board members are elected.

[Libertarian]

You're exactly right. But you know what? I bet they're all reelected, just like 95% of Congress. (caveat: I realize no one you mentioned was directly involved with this particular incident -- but hey, NOT getting reelected would be a good signal to send).

[Swarley]

Woohoo first hat tip

[Fist of Etiquette]

Show some decorum. Please.

[Sevo]

At H&R?!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Swarley could be a trendsetter!

[Scarecrow Repair]

Swerley's probably the gut who tipped the cops off too.

[Penis Carrot]

+1

[PS]

HE TUK UR JOBZ HAT TIPZZ!!!

[Free Society]

one day, I want to be just like you.

[C. S. P. Schofield]

The School officials need to be fired. Tarred and feathered would be good too. The cops need to be fired, and then placed under psychiatric observation. Possibly permanently locked up permanently as dangerous to society.

[Libertarian]

Uh oh. Don't be surprised when the SWAT team "knocks" on your door at 3 a.m. tomorrow.

[Alan]

Why be so gentle to them?

[califernian]

The School officials needs to be eliminated fired.

FTFY

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's possible one of those water balloons could have hit an off-duty detective's luxury Hummer, and then where would we be? This was a good beatdown.

[?J?? de ?guila]

Break out the riot gear and assault vehicles. Fuck, call out the National Guard. Load up with live ammo, mother-fuckers. Heeeeya! Pant Pant Pant!

FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAW and ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Acosmist]

If anything screams "this is not the full story," it's this. Reserving judgment.

[RBS]

Actually this pretty much does sound like the full story.

[cavalier973]

You think it possible that someone actually died due to the police brutality?

[Dweebston]

You're probably right; doubtlessly, one of the teens involved mouthed off to the brave officers disbanding this mob, necessitating a violent response and arrests.

Actually, the full story sounds no better.

[Acosmist]

Good to know you're omniscient. Can you tell me whether the Riemann Hypothesis is true?

[Erik Jay]

I can tell you think too highly of yourself, how's that?

[Dweebston]

You could say I'm cynical. I could say your naive. Why don't we disagree to agree.

[Dweebston]

Oh four chrissake, ^you're. Happy? I'M NOT.

[dinkster]

Detecting math-fag. Clearly we have an intellectual heavy weight on our hands.

[Heroic Mulatto]

One of those balloons might have been an assault balloon.

OFFICER SAFETY!

[World's Oldest Fraggle]

Sure we now know those balloons contained water, but the responding officers had no way of knowing that. The balloons could have contained a powerful acid or gasoline. The police would have been perfectly justified opening fire.

[Art Stone]

Perhaps all balloons that can hold more than 3 ounces of liquid should be called what they are - potential weapons of mass destruction

[buybuydandavis]

Overwrought response? No such thing.

Overwhelming and irresistible force is always the answer! Shock and Awe, baby!

If it was good enough for Saddam Hussein, it's good enough for American school children!

[WomSom]

Sometimes man you just have to roll with the punches.

http://www.Proxys4u.tk

[Otis B. Driftwood]

The five things I teach my little girls after they've spent a day being indoctrinated by educrats:
1. Mathematics
2. Physics
3. The Classics
4. Rifle marksmanship
5. A burning hatred of all LEO's

[sarcasmic]

aye

[Dweebston]

Hatred coupled with discretion, I should hope. Better part of valor and all that.

[AlgerHiss]

US civilian peace keeping (I refuse to call them LEO: Enforce this, you little jackwad.) has become completely out of control.

A firm boot needs placed on the neck of every cop out there. I've grown to despise the sight of them, and I assure you, I am not, nor ever have been a criminal of any kind. When they lose people like me, they have a serious problem.

[Libertarian]

Ya know, when you've lost Alger Hiss............

[Dweebston]

You say you're not a criminal, but you've perhaps not heard of thought crime.

And no, ignorance of thought crime law is no excuse.

[Gamblorr]

Ignorance of thought crime is, in itself, thought crime.

[Dweebston]

+1 ouroboros

[DenverJay]

How is this not making national news? Along with all their other faults, is the media so enamored with the cops that they don't think things like this are ok?
And I just looked up the school on the Google, and it's not like this some dangerous, gang infested, urban school. (You know, with mostly BLACK students, which would, of course, excuse this kind of tyranny).
Its a nice, well regarded school with high test scores.

[Mensan]

I don't know if anyone else has posted this yet: Hero cop, who sat next to the first lady, charged with rape

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[Art Stone]

That will teatch the students not to be bullies!