A school resource officer in North Carolina has been placed on leave after a brief video posted online shows him picking up and slamming a female high school student to the ground. (Photo credit: Twitter, @ahunnaaa_) 
 
 A school resource officer in North Carolina has been placed on leave after a brief video posted online shows him picking up and slamming a female high school student to the ground. The mother of the student, 15-year-old Jasmine Darwin, now says her daughter will not be returning to Rolesville High School. 
 
 Desiree Harrison said she doesn't feel her daughter is safe at Rolesville High School. She said her daughter now has a concussion and she plans to take her out of the school. Harrison said one of daughters was involved in that fight and her other daughter, Jasmine was trying to defend her sister and break it up when administrators can be seen intervening. Harrison said the school called her this morning to notify her about her daughter being involved in the fight, but not about her other daughter and what happened with the officer. She said she didn't know about it until after school. 
 
 
 
 Harrison says she plans to go to the school first thing Wednesday morning to get her daughter's transcripts. She said her daughter is an honor roll student, is a good kid and didn't deserve to be treated like that. 
 
 Authorities are investigating the eight-second video posted Tuesday on Twitter. 
 
 Lisa Luten, a spokesperson for Wake County Public Schools, said they are aware of the incident that happened Tuesday morning. 
 
 "We are in the process of working with Rolesville Police Department to gather all of the details around this incident," Luten said. 
 
 A statement from the town said School Resource Officer Ruben De Los Santos was placed on paid administrative leave. The officer has been assigned to the school since it opened in 2013, he said. About 2,200 students in the ninth through 12th grades attend the school. 
 
 Darwin said, "I was just sitting down on the other side of the cafeteria and I see a big altercation and I run so fast. And then, I see my sister fighting and then I see them both on the ground and I'm trying to get my sister and then people are like pulling me off. And, I'm like 'you guys need to get off of me because I'm trying to help my sister'. And then, that's when Officer Santos came and he picked me up and then slammed me, slammed me on the ground. And I was out for a bit. And then, that's when I got up, he got up and then we went to his office." 
 
 
 
 WRAL-TV in Raleigh reports that the girl's mother, Desiree Harrison, said she was called to the high school about her other daughter and had no idea what had happened to the other girl. 
 
 "When I'm looking at this video, I'm like 'Oh, my god, this cannot be happening to my child' because I was just up at the school and they didn't even tell me what happened to her," Harrison said. "They were so busy trying to get rid of the one who was in a fight but didn't even say something about the one that was not involved in anything." 
 
 There is also a second video, sent in by another eyewitness, showing two girls fighting each other, eventually ending up on the floor. The girls were throwing punches, kicking, and clawing at each other. The second eyewitness who sent the longer video of the fight, Aisha Nasser, said she didn't think De Los Santos meant any harm. 
 
 
 
 "He's one of the kindest officers I've ever come across," said Nasser. "Seeing the whole situation first hand it was out of control and he was just trying to gain control of the situation and I know it wasn't his intention to hurt that girl." 
 
 There may be even more video as well. Mayor Frank Eagles said all Rolesville police officers received body cameras in August, and officials will review any video from the school's security cameras. 
 
 Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union appealed through Twitter for information from witnesses, describing the video as an example of "disturbing use of force ... that should never be used against kids in schools." 
 
 The ACLU has defended students in other confrontations with police officers installed inside their schools, such as the case of a girl who refused to surrender her cellphone at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina in October 2015. School officials called in a sheriff's deputy who flipped her backward in her desk-chair, then tossed her across a classroom. 
 
 Another girl who recorded and protested the treatment was arrested along with the girl for "disturbing schools," but the video sparked national outrage and reviews of whether officers should be involved in school discipline that doesn't involve criminal behavior. The deputy was fired, and in November 2016, the U.S. Justice Department filed what's called a statement of interest in the ACLU's challenge of the "disturbing schools" law. 
 
 In a statement announcing the filing, Civil Rights Division chief Vanita Gupta wrote that the arbitrary enforcement of vague statutes such as South Carolina's contributes to the "school-to-prison pipeline," which unfairly affects minorities and students with disabilities. ||||| A video captured the moment a high school resource officer in Rolesville, N.C., threw a student to the ground on Jan. 3. Police say the officer was responding to a fight, and has been placed on paid administrative leave while the incident is investigated. (Twitter/ahunnaaa_ via Storyful) 
 
 A North Carolina police officer was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday after videos surfaced showing him picking up a high school student and slamming her to the ground. 
 
 The footage, which was shared widely on social media, shows a resource officer at Rolesville High School lifting a student by the torso and throwing her onto the floor as a crowd of other students and school employees watch. The police department in Rolesville, which is about 15 miles northeast of Raleigh, identified the officer as Ruben De Los Santos and said he was responding to a fight that broke out between two female students in the cafeteria shortly after 7 a.m. 
 
 The officer will remain on paid leave while the department investigates the incident. Police said they asked the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to conduct a third-party review, but they did not provide any further details. 
 
 “We will work diligently to review any and all pertinent information so that we provide an accurate account of the events,” Rolesville Police Chief Bobby Langston said in a statement. “We ask the community and all members involved to be patient while we investigate this matter.” 
 
 School officials also said they were looking into the incident. The school’s principal, Dhedra Lassiter, said she was “deeply concerned” by what she saw in the video, saying it raised questions about “the manner in which we keep students and staff safe in our schools.” 
 
 “The safety of our students is always our first priority. Our school district works with many dedicated officers who protect our students,” Lassiter said in a statement. “It is vital that our children have a positive relationship with these law enforcement officials.” 
 
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 The footage stirred outrage on social media and drew comparisons to video that went viral in late 2015 of a South Carolina police officer yanking a high school student out of her chair and throwing her across a classroom. In that incident, federal authorities opened a civil rights investigation and the officer was fired from the department for using excessive force. 
 
 As a nationwide debate has raged over police accountability, the Obama administration has sought to clarify the role officers play in schools and colleges. In September, the administration sent letters to schools across the country urging education officials to make clear what they expect of the police who work on their campuses. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said at the time that the incident in South Carolina and other violent episodes raised concerns about “unnecessary school discipline practices.” 
 
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 A nine-second video of the incident in Rolesville was posted by a student and retweeted more than 3,400 times as of Tuesday night. The video pans across a crowd of students wearing backpacks and jackets standing in the school’s cafeteria. 
 
 Moments later, the video shows De Los Santos wrapping his arms around a young woman in a pink shirt and blue jeans, lifting her and throwing her onto the concrete floor. She lands on her side with a thud and lies motionless for a few seconds before the officer hoists her up and leads her away, holding her hands behind her back. 
 
 #BreakingNews – UPDATE – Rolesville High student shares video of fight that led to another student getting slammed to the ground by officer pic.twitter.com/qiL0na7IVc — ABC11 EyewitnessNews (@ABC11_WTVD) January 3, 2017 
 
 A second video shows the chaotic scene beforehand. In the blurry, minute-long video, a fight breaks out between two young women, who can be seen throwing punches at each other and wrestling on the ground. Some students and school employees appear to try to pull them apart. As the camera moves through the crowd, De Los Santos can be seen from behind throwing the student down. 
 
 The student who posted the first video tweeted that the young woman was trying to protect her sister, who was one of the two who were fighting. “Then the cop came outta nowhere,” she wrote. 
 
 @ArmaniCarmellee the girl in the pink was trying to defend her sister who was fighting another girl. Then the cop came outta nowhere — Ahunna (@ahunnaaa_) January 3, 2017 
 
 The Wake County Public School System thanked her for sharing the video, saying it was working with the police department on the investigation. 
 
 @ahunnaaa_ Thank you for sharing this with us. We are working with Rolesville Police Department to investigate. — Wake County Schools (@WCPSS) January 3, 2017 
 
 Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles said body-camera footage of the incident may exist, according to the Raleigh News and Observer. The Rolesville Police Department announced in August that all officers would be equipped with body cameras, the paper reported. The mayor told ABC11 that De Los Santos had been assigned to the school since it opened in 2013. 
 
 The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said it was investigating the incident and called on anyone with information to contact the group. 
 
 “We’re very disturbed by what we saw in the video,” ACLU staff lawyer Irena Como told the News and Observer. “This kind of force, especially with kids in schools, is never justified.” 
 
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 — In video on Twitter posted Tuesday by a student at Rolesville High School, a Rolesville police officer is visible picking up a female student and slamming her to the floor. 
 
 The girl in the video is Jasmine Darwin, who said she was trying to break up a fight between her sister and another student when the officer came from behind and slammed her to the ground. 
 
 Darwin said, in the moment, she hadn't fully grasped what had happened. 
 
 "Every time I look at it, its embarrassing," Darwin said of the video. "I didn't even realize it happened. Like, I was in shock." 
 
 Rolesville police chief Bobby Langston said the fight occurred in the school cafeteria at about 7:10 a.m. 
 
 Darwin's mother, Desiree Harrison, said she was called to the school about her other daughter, but had no clue what had happened to Darwin until after she got home. Harrison said she feels the officer's actions were excessive. 
 
 "When I'm looking at this video, I'm like 'oh my god, this cannot be happening to my child' because I was just up at the school and they didn't even tell me what happened to her," Harrison said. "They were so busy trying to get rid of the one who was in a fight but didn't even say something about the one that was not involved in anything." 
 
 According to Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles, the officer seen on the video is Rolesville High School resource officer Ruben De Los Santos. De Los Santos, who is a member of the Rolesville Police Department and has been a resource officer at the school for four years, has been placed on paid administrative leave. 
 
 Langston said the State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to review the incident and asked for public patience while the incident is investigated. 
 
 Harrison said she took her daughter to the hospital, where she was told she has a concussion. Harrison said she will keep her daughter home from school Wednesday. 
 
 "That's not how you handle a child. She's only 100 pounds. He could've killed her," Harrison said. 
 
 After the video was posted to Twitter, students were quick to tag the Wake County Public School System and ask for a response. 
 
 Lisa Luten, a spokeswoman for the school system, said, "We are aware of the video. We are working with the Rolesville Police Department to gather all of the details around this incident to ensure that we take the appropriate action." 
 
 @ahunnaaa_ Thank you for sharing this with us. We are working with Rolesville Police Department to investigate. — Wake County Schools (@WCPSS) January 3, 2017 
 
 Rolesville High School principal Dhedra Lassiter released a statement on the school's website saying "I, like many of you, am deeply concerned about what I saw in the video." 
 
 "The safety of our students is always our first priority. Our school district works with many dedicated officers who protect out students," Lassiter said. "It is vital that our children have a positive relationship with these law enforcement officials. Those relationships are built on mutual respect." 
 
 Lassiter said that a unified agreement with local law enforcement agencies that provide training for school resource officers will be reviewed by the district and law enforcement agencies as part of the investigation. 
 
 Eagles said body camera footage of the incident exists. Langston would not go into detail about possible video that shows what happened before Darwin was thrown to the ground. ||||| A Rolesville police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a video showing him slamming a female student to the floor gained national attention Tuesday. 
 
 The nine-second video posted on Twitter on Tuesday shows Officer Ruben De Los Santos lifting the student into the air and dropping her to the floor before leading her away from a crowd of students at Rolesville High School. 
 
 De Los Santos, the school resource officer assigned to the high school, is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, Rolesville Police Chief Bobby Langston said Tuesday evening. 
 
 Langston also said that he has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into the incident. 
 
 A second video that was circulated Tuesday on social media shows a fight involving two other girls at the school shortly before the officer slammed the student to the ground. Langston said De Los Santos had responded to a fight around 7:10 a.m. Tuesday in the school’s cafeteria area. 
 
 “We will work diligently to review any and all pertinent information so that we provide an accurate account of the events,” Langston said in a prepared statement. “We ask the community and all members involved to be patient while we investigate this matter.” 
 
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 Some Rolesville High School students and others in the community posted on Twitter demanding to know what happened. 
 
 @WCPSS im waiting for you to respond to this matter. Why is a grown adult body slamming a 5'2 girl that weights no more than 130lbs? https://t.co/q7iqCQnOil — ♡Melanie♡ (@arthoemel) January 3, 2017 
 
 Funny how @WCPSS will literally reply to every tweet EXCEPT when it has to do with police brutality in their own schools smh — Nianza Nsiambote (@nianza19) January 3, 2017 
 
 Disturbing use of force at #rolesvillehigh that should never be used against kids in schools. Contact us if you have info about incident. — ACLU-North Carolina (@ACLU_NC) January 3, 2017 
 
 Wake County school officials said they’re investigating and will keep families at the school informed about what they learn. 
 
 “This morning, school staff addressed an altercation in the hallway of our school,” Rolesville High Principal Dhedra Lassiter said in a phone message to the school’s families Tuesday evening. “An SRO assigned to our school responded to the fight. A video of the incident, widely shared on social media, has prompted questions about the response. 
 
 “WCPSS security is currently in the process of working with the Rolesville Police Department to gather all of the details about the incident to ensure that appropriate action is taken.” 
 
 In a second message to parents Tuesday, Lassiter said the incident is leading to the district and law enforcement reviewing an agreement approved two years ago that governs how school resource officers operate in Wake schools. 
 
 “I understand this incident brings up questions and conversations about the manner in which we keep students and staff safe in our schools,” Lassiter said in the message. “We will continue to be in conversation as we learn additional information.” 
 
 The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina said Tuesday it is also investigating. 
 
 “We’re very disturbed by what we saw in the video,” said Irena Como, staff attorney for the group. “This kind of force, especially with kids in schools, is never justified.” 
 
 Ahunna Akpuda, a Rolesville High student whose tweet about the video has gone viral, wrote online that the student was trying to defend her sister who was fighting with another girl. 
 
 “Then the cop came outta nowhere,” Akpuda tweeted. 
 
 @ArmaniCarmellee the girl in the pink was trying to defend her sister who was fighting another girl. Then the cop came outta nowhere — Ahunna (@ahunnaaa_) January 3, 2017 
 
 Akpuda tweeted that the student has a few minor injuries “but nothing extremely serious.” 
 
 Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles said there is body-camera footage because the Rolesville Police Department announced in August that all officers would be issued a body camera. 
 
 Tanya Pearson, the parent of a sophomore at Rolesville High, said she was “shocked and disgusted” by the incident. Pearson said she first learned about the situation when her daughter texted her about it. 
 
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 The school system contracts with law enforcement agencies to provide an armed officer at every high school and most middle schools. The officers provide security, speak in classes and mentor students. 
 
 Officers are supposed to receive training in areas such as working with students with disabilities and special needs, cultural competency and nondiscriminatory administration of school discipline. 
 
 De Los Santos has served as a school resource officer with the Rolesville Police Department since February 2012, according to his LinkedIn page. 
 
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 One of the videos taken as a school resource officer slammed a student sitting at her desk at a South Carolina high school also shows her punching the deputy during the confrontation, authorities said Tuesday. 
 
 That video, described by Sheriff Leon Lott as the "third video," will play a part in the internal affairs investigation into whether Senior Deputy Ben Fields violated policy in Monday's incident at Spring Valley High School in Columbia. 
 
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 There are at least three videos that have surfaced of the incident — which shows the girl flailing at the officer as he is already in the middle of flipping her chair over — and their distribution online has caused an uproar on social media. 
 
 It’s not clear whether the sheriff was referring to those videos, or if there’s still another angle on the incident. 
 
 By Monday night, Fields was suspended without pay and was asked not to return to any of the school campuses within the Richland School District Two. 
 
 The Justice Department and the FBI announced Tuesday they would open their own investigations into whether the girl's civil rights were violated. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is also conducting a separate probe. 
 
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 Lott told reporters Tuesday that his department's internal investigation should be completed within the next 24 hours, when he will announce Fields' fate with the agency. 
 
 "I wanted to throw up," Lott said after first viewing footage of the incident. "This makes you sick to your stomach when you see that initial video. But that's just a snapshot." 
 
 Lott also said he doesn't believe race was a factor in what happened — and noted that Fields has been dating an African-American woman for "quite some time." 
 
 Yet Fields — whom students allegedly referred to as "Officer Slam" — has also been the subject of previous excessive force and racial bias allegations. 
 
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 Lott said they're looking at the videos taken by students inside the class and conducting interviews with the witnesses to determine whether the officer should have escalated the situation with physical force. 
 
 A teacher had complained that the student, who has not been identified, was being unruly during class and refused to leave even after an administrator was called in. 
 
 "The student was wrong in what she did — she disrupted class, she was disturbing the others students from getting an education. But does her actions meet the level of what this officer did?" Lott asked. "That’s what we’re going to decide." 
 
 Lott added that she had been texting and using her phone instead of doing her school work on a Chromebook during the algebra class. 
 
 Fields in the videos shared on social media stands in front of the student, and orders her to stand up or be forcibly removed. She refuses to leave. Fields is then seen body-slamming the student to the ground while she's still in her seat, and then dragging her and her desk across the floor. 
 
 Related: South Carolina School Officer's Actions 'Over The Line,' Experts Say 
 
 In the third video viewed by police, Lott said, it shows the girl hitting the officer in the head once he puts his hands on her: "There's no question about that." 
 
 The female student in the video as well as a second student — identified as Niya Kenny — was arrested for "contributing to the chaos," Lott added. 
 
 Kenny told NBC News on Tuesday that she saw the officer put his arm around her classmate's neck, which is when she tried to hit him. 
 
 "I don’t even think her fist made contact with him — she tried to," Kenny said. 
 
 Kenny, who admits that she was "using a few F-bombs" during the confrontation, said Fields is known in the school for being physical. 
 
 "We already know his reputation, and I felt something bad was going to go down," Kenny said when the deputy walked into the classroom, adding, "He’s known as Officer Slam." 
 
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 Sheriff Lott declined to comment about what actions Fields should have taken in the heat of the moment because the investigation is ongoing. Fields is also the defensive line and strength coach for Spring Valley's football team. 
 
 At an earlier news conference, school district officials Tuesday blasted Fields' actions, calling them "outrageous" and "reprehensible," and the video itself "shamefully shocking." 
 
 Schools Superintendent Debbie Hamm said the district is strengthening its training efforts with school resource officers to ensure such an incident doesn't happen again. 
 
 "As we have stated previously, the safety and dignity of our students is our highest priority," added School District Board Chairman James Manning. 
 
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 Reaction over the video has been swift, and members of the group the Richland Two Black Parents Association called the officers' actions "unacceptable," reported NBC affiliate WIS. The student in the video is a black female, while the officer is white. 
 
 "Parents are heartbroken as this is just another example of the intolerance that continues to be of issue in Richland School District Two particularly with families and children of color," the parents association said in a statement. "As we have stated in the past, we stand ready to work in collaboration to address these horrible acts of violence and inequities among our children." 
 
 Meanwhile, Fields is facing another allegation of bias. 
 
 Trial is set for January in the case of an expelled student who claims Fields targeted blacks and falsely accused him of being a gang member in 2013. 
 
 In another case, a federal jury sided with Fields after a black couple accused him of excessive force and battery during a noise complaint arrest in 2005. A third lawsuit, dismissed in 2009, involved a woman who accused him of battery and violating her rights during a 2006 arrest. ||||| COLUMBIA, S.C. Federal authorities launched a civil rights investigation on Tuesday into a white deputy's arrest of a black high school student in South Carolina, after video showed him slamming the teenager to the ground and dragging her across a classroom. 
 
 The actions by officer Ben Fields at Spring Valley High School in Columbia on Monday drew swift condemnation after video recordings of the incident went viral and raised fresh concerns over whether the use of police in schools can criminalize behavior once handled by educators. 
 
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 At a time of heightened scrutiny of use of force by police, particularly against minorities, the president of the South Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said he felt race was a factor in the arrest and called for Fields to be charged with assault. 
 
 Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he would entrust the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department with leading the criminal probe, with the state law enforcement division assisting. 
 
 "We do not want any issues with the community or those involved having questions concerning conflicts of interest in this investigation," Lott said in a statement. 
 
 A hashtag #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh trended nationwide within hours of the 18-year-old student's arrest, which also garnered attention on Tuesday from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 
 
 "There is no excuse for violence inside a school," Clinton tweeted. "The #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh is unacceptable —schools should be safe places." 
 
 Fields, who did not reply to an email request for comment, has been placed on administrative duties and barred by Richland School District Two from working in any of its 40 schools during the investigation. 
 
 The deputy joined the sheriff's office in 2004 and its school resource officer program in 2008, according to an agency newsletter. Last November, an elementary school where he also is assigned presented him with a "Culture of Excellence Award." 
 
 Fields "has proven to be an exceptional role model to the students he serves and protects," the newsletter said. 
 
 He also works as the strength and conditioning coach and defensive line coach for Spring Valley High's football team, according to its website. 
 
 One of the pupils who videotaped the arrest told local news station WLTX that Fields was called to the classroom after a student had her cell phone out and refused to hand it over to the teacher. 
 
 When the teen refused Fields' request to move from her seat, things quickly turned physical, said the student witness, Tony Robinson Jr. 
 
 A video shows Fields approaching the sitting girl, wrapping his arm under her chin and flipping her desk with her in it. 
 
 Fields then drags her from the chair and tosses her on the floor, as students look on, before handcuffing her. 
 
 "It was definitely a scary experience," Robinson told WLTX. 
 
 The girl, who did not appear to resist or argue, was arrested for "disturbing school" and released to her family, sheriff's Lieutenant Curtis Wilson said. 
 
 A founding member of the Richland Two Black Parents Association said the group was saddened but not surprised by the encounter in a school district that in the past two decades has transformed from being predominantly white to majority black. 
 
 The parents association, which has 5,700 members after being formed a year ago, has called for a Justice Department probe into what it says are long-standing discriminatory practices by the school district, said Stephen Gilchrist, who has one son who graduated from Spring Valley High and another attending now. 
 
 Gilchrist said the district has a legacy of expelling and suspending large numbers of African-American students, who make up nearly 59 percent of the district's 27,500 pupils. 
 
 A school spokeswoman did not respond to Gilchrist's claim. 
 
 "We don't want this to be about just this officer," Gilchrist said. "There is much more going on that has helped create a culture of discrimination within this district." 
 
 Court records show Fields has been named as a defendant in two federal lawsuits, most recently in 2013 in a case that claims he "unfairly and recklessly targets African-American students with allegations of gang membership and criminal gang activity." A jury trial is set for Jan. 27 in Columbia. 
 
 In a 2007 case, a jury decided in favor of Fields and another deputy accused by a Columbia couple of unreasonable and excessive force during an investigation of a noise complaint. 
 
 Lawsuit documents said Fields' "unprovoked anger escalated to the point that he grabbed plaintiff Carlos Martin, slammed him to the ground, cuffed him, began kicking him and chemically maced him until his clothing was drenched and the contents of the can of mace was depleted." 
 
 (Additional reporting by Harriet McLeod in Charleston, South Carolina and Suzannah Gonzales in New York; Writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by James Dalgleish) ||||| [This post has been updated.] 
 
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 McKINNEY — A police call about unwelcome teenagers at a community pool thrust this affluent suburb into the national spotlight on race and police relations Sunday. 
 
 Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt was placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing him pulling a 15-year-old girl to the ground and pinning her down outside a pool party Friday night in the expansive Craig Ranch subdivision. Seconds later, he pulled his gun and pointed it at two teens who appear to try to come to her aid. 
 
 The profanity-laced seven-minute video, posted to YouTube on Saturday, had been viewed more than 1 million times Sunday. It shows white police officers trying to control black teens who had scattered as officers arrived at the pool. 
 
 McKinney Mayor Brian Loughmiller said that he expects city staff and police officials to quickly conduct an investigation into the officer’s actions. 
 
 “I am disturbed and concerned by the incident and actions depicted in the video,” Loughmiller said in a written statement. “Our expectation as a City Council is that our police department and other departments will act professionally and with appropriate restraint relative to the situation they are faced with.” 
 
 McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley, who declined to say what specific behavior in the video led to the investigation, said Sunday that the officer was immediately placed on leave. 
 
 “Any time you confront a large group of people, it’s a very dynamic situation and tensions can rise very quickly,” he said. 
 
 He said three officers responded after residents and a private security officer called police to complain that several teenagers did not have permission to use the pool and had refused to leave. The homeowners association limits pool use to Craig Ranch residents and two guests per household. Several people complained that the teenagers had started fighting. 
 
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 The department dispatched an additional nine officers because of the size of the crowd, he said. 
 
 The girl who was restrained in the video, Dajerria Becton, told KDFW-TV (Channel 4) that she followed police orders. “He told me to walk away and I did. Next thing I know I’m on the ground,” she said. 
 
 “Him getting fired isn’t enough.” 
 
 Toward the beginning of the video, one officer can be heard calmly speaking to several teenagers. He says, “Don’t take off running as soon as cops get here.” 
 
 Seconds later, Casebolt can be seen grabbing one teenager’s arm and pulling him to the ground. He then points to other teenagers, all black, and says, “Get your asses on the ground.” 
 
 Someone in the background can be heard saying, “Sir, sir. We just came here for a birthday party.” 
 
 “Don’t make me [expletive] run around here with 30 [expletive] pounds of gear on in the sun ’cause you want to screw around out here,” Casebolt says to two teenagers he orders to sit on the grass. 
 
 Moments later he grabs Dajerria after she starts to walk away from the scene. Two black teens run up toward Casebolt and the girl. The officer turns and pulls out his gun, pointing it at them. Two other officers intervene before the officer turns back to the teenage girl. 
 
 In the video, Casebolt can be heard yelling, “On your face,” as he pushes the girl to the ground. As he leans on the girl, he points to others standing nearby and yells, “Get out of here or you’re going, too.” 
 
 The video also shows several teenagers sitting on the grass with their hands cuffed behind their backs. Conley said Dajerria was released to her parents. No teenagers were arrested. One adult, who was not identified, was arrested for interfering in the police investigation, Conley said. No injuries were reported. 
 
 ‘Fairly and equally’ 
 
 At a news conference Sunday at the McKinney Police Department, about a dozen people expressed frustration that the officers in the video seemed to target only the black youths at the pool party. Many said that it’s another example of racism in the suburb. 
 
 “We’re not here to cause a riot or be Baltimore all over again,” McKinney resident La’Shadion Anthony said. “We’re just here to be treated fairly and equally.” 
 
 McKinney found itself in the national spotlight in 2004 after the Police Department’s tactics were called into question by the U.S. Department of Justice. Racial tensions between police and residents in an east-side neighborhood escalated following four execution-style slayings earlier in the year. 
 
 About 75 percent of McKinney residents are white, and about 10 percent are black, according to 2010 census data. 
 
 But some say the incident Sunday wasn’t racially motivated. 
 
 “This is not a racist neighborhood,” said Benét Embry, a local radio personality who witnessed the incident. “There are a lot of good people in this community. It’s unfortunate that an event like this brings the spotlight.” 
 
 Embry, who is black, said he appreciated the police officers’ speedy response in calming a rowdy situation. 
 
 “That’s what they are supposed to do, protect us. I don’t know any other way he could have taken her down or established order,” he said. 
 
 Embry said that the teenagers started jumping over the fence into the party and causing a disturbance. He said the teenage girl seen in the video was talking back to Casebolt. 
 
 “She’s bringing more stress into an already volatile situation,” Embry said. “Out of a hundred kids, you probably had seven who are acting the fool. They totally spoiled it for everybody else.” 
 
 But others, in McKinney and online, said the officers appeared to unfairly target black teens. 
 
 Lincoln Turner, who is white, attended Sunday’s news conference at the police station to show support for the teenagers at the pool party. He and his children frequently use the pools at Craig Ranch, though they don’t live in the subdivision. He said he doesn’t want this incident to be what people remember about McKinney. 
 
 “Everyone should come to McKinney and have fun in our pools. That’s the message that we want to send to the world,” Turner said. “Not that they’re going to get harassed and patrolled and beaten down. Not get a gun drawn on them. That’s ridiculous.” 
 
 Pastor’s appeal 
 
 Derrick Golden, pastor at The New Covenant Fellowship Church, urged people to not jump to conclusions until the incident has been fully investigated. Golden, who is black, said that though it seems like the police were targeting black youths, people shouldn’t rush to call it racially motivated. 
 
 “I know that he responded too strongly, but I don’t know the whole story,” Golden said. 
 
 Dallas criminal defense lawyer Peter Schulte, who was not involved in the incident, said that after viewing the video he was most bothered by the actions Casebolt took in his role as a supervisor. 
 
 “This is a classic example of how something can escalate out of control very quickly by the actions of the officers, not by what was going on,” said Schulte, a former McKinney officer. 
 
 Schulte said that almost every time he pulled up to a party as an officer, people scattered. He said it is difficult to control a situation by making everybody get on the ground instead of calmly asking people to stand still. 
 
 Casebolt has been with the department since August 2005, according to his LinkedIn account, which had been deleted Sunday afternoon. 
 
 Prior to that, he was listed as a highway patrol trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety from March 2003 to August 2005. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a member of the military police from 2000 to 2003 and an operations specialist from 1993 until 2000. 
 
 He also is an instructor trainee at Executive Self-defense and Fitness in McKinney, where his online biography that had also been removed listed him as having received in-depth training on handcuffing, pressure point compliance and armed and unarmed self-defense. 
 
 The biography also stated that Casebolt has “a strong working knowledge of human behavior, indicators of deception, criminal behavior, the development of situational awareness and experience in the use of all levels of force.” 
 
 Calls for firing 
 
 Local activist Dominique Alexander, said the incident was “definitely a racially motivated thing” and said Casebolt “acted like he was a wild animal, just running around.” 
 
 His group, Next Generation Action Network, plans to hold a march at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Comstock Elementary in McKinney. 
 
 No male officer “should ever touch a young girl, half naked, 95 pounds and slam her,” Alexander said. “That was out of line. He should be fired.” 
 
 Mothers Against Police Brutality, a local group, called for Casebolt to be permanently removed from his position. 
 
 The ACLU of Texas said in a statement Sunday that the incident “appears to be a textbook case of overuse of force.” 
 
 “A well-trained police department would have responded more cautiously, with less hostility, and using sophisticated crowd control methods that favor de-escalation not escalation,” the statement says. “Without question, guns were not needed and in fact risked turning a group of partying teenagers into a violent encounter that could have turned deadly.” 
 
 The group called on McKinney police to release the incident report and 911 call recording, along with the disciplinary history of the officer. 
 
 “Police departments are intended to be organizations that protect and serve their constituents,” the statement says. “But increasingly in this country we have two kinds of policing and we saw both in this incident: protecting and serving white communities and criminalizing and controlling black communities.” 
 
 Staff writer Joe Simnacher contributed to this report. ||||| McKINNEY — A call to police about unwelcome teenagers at a community pool thrust this affluent suburb into the national spotlight on race and police relations Sunday. 
 
 Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt was placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing him pulling a 15-year-old girl to the ground and pinning her down outside a pool party Friday night in the expansive Craig Ranch subdivision. Seconds later, he pulled his gun and pointed it at two teens who appear to try to come to her aid. 
 
 The profanity-laced seven-minute video, posted to YouTube on Saturday, had been viewed more than 4 million times by Monday. It shows white police officers trying to control black teens who had scattered as officers arrived in the neighborhood. 
 
 McKinney Mayor Brian Loughmiller said that he expects city staff and police officials to quickly conduct an investigation into the officer’s actions. 
 
 “I am disturbed and concerned by the incident and actions depicted in the video,” Loughmiller said in a written statement. “Our expectation as a City Council is that our police department and other departments will act professionally and with appropriate restraint relative to the situation they are faced with.” 
 
 McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley, who declined to say what specific behavior in the video led to the investigation, said Sunday that the officer was immediately placed on leave. 
 
 “Any time you confront a large group of people, it’s a very dynamic situation and tensions can rise very quickly,” he said. 
 
 He said three officers responded after residents and a private security officer called police to complain that several teenagers did not have permission to use the pool and had refused to leave. Several people complained that the teenagers had started fighting. 
 
 The homeowners association limits pool use to Craig Ranch residents and two guests per household. 
 
 Pointing, yelling 
 
 The department dispatched nine more officers because of the size of the crowd, Conley said. 
 
 The girl who was restrained in the video, Dajerria Becton, told KDFW-TV (Channel 4) that she followed police orders. “He told me to walk away and I did. Next thing I know I’m on the ground,” she said. 
 
 “Him getting fired isn’t enough.” 
 
 Near the beginning of the video, one officer can be heard calmly speaking to several teenagers. He says, “Don’t take off running as soon as cops get here.” 
 
 Seconds later, Casebolt can be seen grabbing one teenager’s arm and pulling him to the ground. He then points to other teenagers, all black, and says, “Get your asses on the ground.” 
 
 Someone in the background can be heard saying, “Sir, sir. We just came here for a birthday party.” 
 
 “Don’t make me [expletive] run around here with 30 [expletive] pounds of gear on in the sun ’cause you want to screw around out here,” Casebolt tells two teenagers he orders to sit on the grass. 
 
 Moments later he grabs Dajerria after she starts to walk away from the scene. Two black teens run toward Casebolt and the girl. The officer turns and pulls out his gun, pointing it at them. Two other officers intervene before the officer turns back to the teenage girl. 
 
 In the video, Casebolt can be heard yelling, “On your face,” as he pushes the girl to the ground. As he leans on the girl, he points to others standing nearby and yells, “Get out of here or you’re going, too.” 
 
 The video also shows several teenagers sitting on the grass with their hands cuffed behind their backs. Conley said Dajerria was released to her parents. No teenagers were arrested. One adult, who was not identified, was arrested on a charge of interfering in the police investigation, Conley said. No injuries were reported. 
 
 ‘Fairly and equally’ 
 
 At a news conference Sunday at the McKinney Police Department, about a dozen people expressed frustration that the officers in the video seemed to target only the black youths at the pool party. Many said that it’s another example of racism in the suburb. 
 
 “We’re not here to cause a riot or be Baltimore all over again,” McKinney resident La’Shadion Anthony said. “We’re just here to be treated fairly and equally.” 
 
 McKinney attracted national attention in 2004 after the Police Department’s tactics were called into question by the U.S. Department of Justice. Racial tensions between police and residents in an east-side neighborhood escalated following four execution-style slayings earlier in the year. 
 
 About 75 percent of McKinney residents are white, and about 10 percent are black, according to 2010 census data. 
 
 But some say the incident Sunday wasn’t racially motivated. 
 
 “This is not a racist neighborhood,” said Benét Embry, a local radio personality who lives in the area and witnessed the incident. “There are a lot of good people in this community. It’s unfortunate that an event like this brings the spotlight.” 
 
 Embry, who is black, said he appreciated the police officers’ speedy response in calming a rowdy situation. 
 
 “That’s what they are supposed to do: protect us. I don’t know any other way he could have taken her down or established order,” he said. 
 
 Embry said that teenagers who do not live in the neighborhood started jumping over the fence to get to the party and were causing a disturbance. He said Dajerria was talking back to Casebolt. 
 
 “She’s bringing more stress into an already volatile situation,” Embry said. “Out of a hundred kids, you probably had seven who are acting the fool. They totally spoiled it for everybody else.” 
 
 But others, in McKinney and online, said the officers appeared to unfairly target black teens. 
 
 Lincoln Turner, who is white, attended Sunday’s news conference at the police station to show support for the teenagers at the pool party. He and his children frequently use the pools at Craig Ranch, though they don’t live in the subdivision. He said he doesn’t want this incident to be what people remember about McKinney. 
 
 “Everyone should come to McKinney and have fun in our pools. That’s the message that we want to send to the world,” Turner said. “Not that they’re going to get harassed and patrolled and beaten down. Not get a gun drawn on them. That’s ridiculous.” 
 
 Derrick Golden, pastor at The New Covenant Fellowship Church, urged people to not jump to conclusions until the incident has been fully investigated. Golden, who is black, said that though it seems like the police were targeting black youths, people shouldn’t rush to call it racially motivated. 
 
 “I know that he responded too strongly, but I don’t know the whole story,” Golden said. 
 
 Dallas criminal defense lawyer Peter Schulte, who was not involved in the incident, said that after viewing the video he was most bothered by the actions Casebolt took in his role as a supervisor. 
 
 “This is a classic example of how something can escalate out of control very quickly by the actions of the officers, not by what was going on,” said Schulte, a former McKinney officer. 
 
 Casebolt has been with the department since August 2005, according to his LinkedIn account, which had been deleted Sunday afternoon. 
 
 Prior to that, he was listed as a highway patrol trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety from March 2003 to August 2005. It said he served in the U.S. Navy as a member of the military police from 2000 to 2003 and an operations specialist from 1993 until 2000. 
 
 He is an instructor trainee at Executive Self-defense and Fitness in McKinney, where his online biography that had been removed listed him as having received in-depth training on impact weapon deployment, handcuffing, pressure point compliance and armed and unarmed self-defense. 
 
 The biography stated that Casebolt has “a strong working knowledge of human behavior, indicators of deception, criminal behavior, the development of situational awareness and experience in the use of all levels of force.” 
 
 Calls for firing 
 
 Local activist Dominique Alexander said the incident was “definitely a racially motivated thing” and said Casebolt “acted like he was a wild animal, just running around.” 
 
 His group, Next Generation Action Network, plans to hold a march at 6:30 p.m. Monday at nearby Comstock Elementary in McKinney. 
 
 No male officer “should ever touch a young girl, half naked, 95 pounds and slam her,” Alexander said. “That was out of line. He should be fired.” 
 
 Mothers Against Police Brutality, a local group, called for Casebolt to be permanently removed from his position. 
 
 The ACLU of Texas said in a statement Sunday that the incident “appears to be a textbook case of overuse of force.” 
 
 “A well-trained police department would have responded more cautiously, with less hostility, and using sophisticated crowd control methods that favor de-escalation not escalation,” the statement says. “Without question, guns were not needed and in fact risked turning a group of partying teenagers into a violent encounter that could have turned deadly.” 
 
 The group called on McKinney police to release the incident report and 911 call recording, along with the officer’s disciplinary history. 
 
 Arthur Fleming, the president of the Dallas branch of the NAACP, said Casebolt should have investigated the situation before reacting. 
 
 “These situations have always happened, but now we have cameras to document so the larger community can see what we’ve been seeing forever,” he said. “This is one of those times where we need to come together and have a bigger conversation about race in America.” 
 
 Staff writer Joe Simnacher contributed to this report. 
 
 ttsiaperas@dallasnews.com 
 
 ccardona@dallasnews.com
– A North Carolina cop is on paid leave after video surfaced on social media showing him roughly throwing a female student to the floor, reports the News & Observer. Officer Ruben De Los Santos, a school resource officer for Rolesville High School, was responding to an early morning fight between two female students in the cafeteria Tuesday. The nine-second clip shows De Los Santos (identified by the police department, per the Washington Post) lifting up a girl in a pink shirt to about shoulder's height as a crowd of students watches, then slamming her to the ground, where she remains unmoving for a second or two until he drags her up by the arm and makes her walk away with him. The Rolesville PD says it's asked the state Bureau of Investigation to investigate and pledges to "work diligently to review any and all pertinent information so that we provide an accurate account of the events." The school's principal said in a statement that she was "deeply concerned" about what she witnessed. The student who filmed the video posted it on Twitter and said, "THIS. IS. NOT OKAY.," including a hashtag with the school's name. The ACLU of North Carolina also weighed in, tweeting, "Disturbing use of force at #rolesvillehigh that should never be used against kids in schools." The mother of the student, identified by WLOS as 15-year-old Jasmine Darwin, says Jasmine, an honors student, has a concussion and won't be returning to the school. Jasmine, who says she was trying to defend her sister in the original fight, tells WRAL, "I was in shock." Meanwhile, Dajerria Becton, the teen taken to the ground by a Texas cop in 2015 during a pool party, has filed a $5 million suit against now ex-cop Eric Casebolt, the city of McKinney, and the police department, per the Dallas Morning News.