Brickbat: Hair Today

Orange County, Fla., Sheriff John Mina has fired deputy Harry Reid after video showed Reid grabbing a Westbridge Middle School student by her hair. Deputies had been called to an apartment complex regarding a group of students fighting outside. Bodycam footage shows the first deputy arriving to find the girl being restrained by a group of other girls and shouting at someone else. He attempted to calm her down. Then Reid, a school resource officer, arrived. "You're the one that started the [expletive] in school," he said. He pushed the girl against a car, pulled her hands behind her back and grabbed her hair and pulled her head back, causing her to scream.

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[BigT]

Gone tomorrow.

[Fist of Etiquette]

This is the worst thing he's done since passing Obamacare.

[Conchfritters]

Did his brother beat the shit out of him later?

[MoreFreedom]

Consider, this is a government school with a "resource officer" who initiates and uses force against students, that the county sheriff hires and fires. It's hard to imagine this happening in a private school - this isn't how businesses treat their customers, it's how government treats criminals. In a private school, they'll be deciding whether it's better for the school and its students, to expel the disruptive student and let the parents deal with it. If the student harmed another, that's when to potentially bring in the police.

[Brandybuck]

From the story, this didn't happen at school, it happened at an apartment complex. The "resource officer" showed up at someone's home.

[loki]

Typical. Cop gets fired for behavior that would land the rest of us in jail. Surprised he didn't get suspended with pay.

[MatthewSlyfield]

Wait until the union files a grievance and forces the sheriff to re-hire this idiot.

[DatCrazyMongoose]

With back pay for the time he missed. Oh, and then he will immediately retire with full disability due to the PTSD that this event caused him.

[Brandybuck]

School resource officers now invading apartment complexes. When will enough be enough and we say stop? What's next, school resource officers now conducting no knock raids on private homes so they can beat our kids?

[Vernon Depner]

I'd be surprised if that's never happened.