School guards attack a girl over cake

[Steve the Pocket]

article link (couldn't track it down to a national news source)

School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up.

The incident occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale and was caught on a cell phone camera by another pupil who was then also assaulted by the security guards.

The girl, Pleajhai Mervin, told Fox News LA that she was bumped while queuing for lunch and dropped the cake. After being ordered to clean it up and then re-clean the spot three times, she attempted to leave the area out of embarrassment but was jumped on by security who forced her onto a table, breaking her wrist in the process.

Pleajhai also says that the security guard in the picture yelled "hold still nappy-head" at her, which at the time she did not know was a racist comment.

In an even more shocking development the security guards later had the mother of the girl arrested after she sought out an attorney and demanded that the guard be arrested, telling her that if she wanted the guard detained then she herself would also be charged with battery after she allegedly pushed the guard and an assistant principal of the school. She has also been suspended from her job at another school in the county.

The school expelled Pleajhai for five days before then having her arrested for battery and for littering (the dropping of the cake). Then they had the pupil who captured the video arrested along with his sister who was merely present at the scene.

A walkout is planned for this morning by some students, after which the protesters will call for the firing of the main security guard involved.

The incident serves as another unbelievable case in the wave of police brutality sweeping the country. In recent days we have covered multiple incidents of this nature and have compiled them into a page which will no doubt be added to in the months to come.

Commentators have linked the increased cases of brutality with a post 9/11 mentality in America where civil liberties have been totally diminished and the anointed "authorities" simply consider themselves above the law.

Former Reagan government official Paul Craig Roberts, for instance, has succinctly described the mentality as having turned "an epidemic of US police brutality into a pandemic".

The media reports linked above clearly sympathize with the girl and her mother but only because the girl "fully complied with the guards' orders".

I just added a couple more people to my hit list.

[Tom Flapwell]

And I've added Palmdale to my list of places not to visit.

[Sage]

.......

Stupidity is becoming the pandemic here...

[Tom Flapwell]

If you thought that was stupid: Million-Dollar Bill-y?

[Bocaj Claw]

I try not to get too cynical and depressing but expletive. This just sinks people in general a few points lower on my scale of things.

[gforce422]

*gets depressed about how unbelievable and stupid this is*

[datherman]

I'm sure there's another side to the story we're not being told, but even still, that is fairly screwed up.

[Muninn]

She has a foreign sounding name and was called "nappy-head". No surprises on what the main motivation on this was.

[superFRO!]

I thought it was about the cake, maybe the guard REALLY wanted that cake!

OMG I revived a week old topic! For bopkiss!

[Doc Sigma]

THE CAKE IS A LIE

[likeafox]

Man this is disgusting (though I'm thinking an extreme and rare case). After reading the first few lines I thought for a minute the story was twisted to sound worse than it was or maybe made up completely. It doesn't seem all that exaggerated though. Eh... sometimes I just forget about certain aspects about the world I live in.

[Comrade K]

Man this is disgusting (though I'm thinking an extreme and rare case). After reading the first few lines I thought for a minute the story was twisted to sound worse than it was or maybe made up completely. It doesn't seem all that exaggerated though. Eh... sometimes I just forget about certain aspects about the world I live in.

It happens when you live on the good half of the continent.

[Tum0spoo]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/se ... ecuity.htm

More on that.

[Bocaj Claw]

Clearly this is what happens when people are allowed to make cake that isn't either chocolate or carrot cake. Anarchy. And madness.

[Hanging Tree]

I had heard that that the gaurds claimed there had been a food fight and the girl had not attempted to clean the cake at all.

I'd also like to point out that it can be kind of easy to accidently break somebody's bone if they are struggling against you. My dad and another guy broke a boy's arm by accident when he worked at a youth home. They were just trying to restrain him and it broke. Nothing malicious or racist about it.