It's hard to tell what's going on here, but I'm leaning on the side of the cop on this one. It looked like the girl was aggressively going towards the cop. Maybe a little restraint by pushing back instead of going for the big punch.

Showed restraint imo. Being surrounded by a mob like that, multiple assailants coming at you. I don't care if they're high school girls or not. Looks like 3 of them made contact (assault). It's easy to say he should have used less force, but this all happened within 2 seconds and you can't expect people to not have basic survival instincts.

Id be interested to know the backstory.

You leave someone with no choice... then they have no choice.

As it feels a bit strange siding with the cop on this one, lemme stretch.

The dozens/hundreds of other cops who use unnecessary force will only contribute to situations where citizens have apparently little to no respect for the police in general - as appears to be the case here.

why is nobody asking the obvious question?
it never seems to even come up...
why the fuck is it necessary to have police officers at school?

Supposedly, "it makes the fear hurt less".

My wife was a teacher at a middle school where several teachers were assaulted (pushed, punched, etc.) yearly and there were almost daily fights between students--no exaggeration. School policy is that teachers can't touch the kids for any reason, even to break up fights where one student is kicking another on the ground, due to threats of lawsuits in such cases. The police officer is there mostly to diffuse/stop such instances because they are allowed to get physically involved. They are also on hand to file charges against threats of assault, rape, or when drugs are found.

And this is all at a middle school where the kids range in size from pre-pubescent four footers to early-bloomer six foot plus and much larger than some of their female teachers.

The efficacy of this is obviously influenced by the individual cop, the school administration and how the students and their parents view police in general.

Because many parents can't seem to properly raise their children these days.

And because, as @Herostratus said, teachers can't touch students without fear they'll be sued AND fired.

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