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A minute or will it back so oh yeah, youre still interested in middle school and get arrested and stop saying, hey, i go to adult, present in the process we do all the round work time. It has a light like that. It would be 2 weeks to South Carolina and go back to new york to handle some of those the 3 weeks. The South Carolina go back to new york habits and business, including but not limited to policy, so immensely. I just relocated because there was a bigger conversation and i just kind of walk away from it. So may of 2016. We started before organization, every black girl. Every black girl started off as a campaign to get the charges dropped. To start looking at how to shift School Culture when it comes to push out and this mental disturbance go along. The once the investigation was on, they took everything and i presented it to dan johnson, who was the solicitor who was the chief prosecutor originally in car, south county. And he looked at the case to decide if in fact there was enough to charge probable cause to charge me with a crime. In this particular situation. All parties cleared may of any wrong doing. Mm. The. Okay. For my masters degree, i was at university of South Carolina. I was looking at how the land holds trauma. Theres trauma across this land nature as taking it over the issues to remain because history doesnt work the same way that nature the past lives in the present. Wow. You can see hundreds of acres of rice field here built on the backs of the slave labor force. These african engineers, right, that had been brought from the rise coast of africa, 3000 miles across the membrane. People here and i brought you here cuz you asked me to bring why here for you, why do you want to get here . As an African American . You know, your yeah, history stop is at a point, you know, so much is not documented. Any absence of records and names and in the absence of other ways to connect to your history, the land. You know, this is how you connect to that history. You can see the where its not just black people where they can see like the neglect and how it manifests and people in groups and communities and cultures and how you go into some communities, black and brown communities, you see is dilapidated, like the right or you can see the, the, the lack of care that this investment in aware that accumulates from that. Yeah. Murphy island is a big place, and it holds a very ugly history. But its being conveniently washed away. Its a will for neglect. I think it allows these ugly histories to be ignored, and to be sweat under the rock. We have to recognize that slavery is white peoples history to the Spring Valley scratched away. Its scam memories from 50 years ago, the somehow people assume that were turn the corner and at least weve gone to a place where people young people will be taught and will be safe and secure as it is, it somehow got tired of the video on facebook so i started reading the comments place up some price on the, on the back, some of this, some of the shipping, i just got a bill and rep, norman and we have stopped us now. Lovington look up to me. Make sure im no longer place. Not going through a lot, but im have to pull through a lot of times i dont want to do all, but i will talk to him and im on an issue with some issues like like you need to keep moving the situation who is talking from door to right, how you doing what you desire to be afraid of just by everyone else. I cant seem to let everybody else tell me like all of never saw. I want to know a little and thats another reason why ive started school, you know, and our cna program is strong. I feel, i mean has next because she enters some of the same thing. They were not sure how i lived that moment. And this moment as time had i been born in this moment in time. The moment that she met, i live, i remember being so tired at school that day. I this, mr. Smith said a math problem and i dont like math. I didnt understand what he says are reached over to my friend. What are you seeing now understand what he told us to do . He said, vivian, there you go again. And im like, no, i just dont understand what youre saying. You always get smart. You always talk is something you always doing is. I grew up in time, a call from furnished me. Right. And i was like, no, you just dont make sense to me. I dont understand that actually, no, i got a smart mouth, but i wasnt trying to be smart. I just did not understand. And then night on that day i was really tired. And he was like, i got something for you and he pulled off the title because we used to be able to get a paddle. And i was like, not today. Yeah, i dont know what i went through last night. I ran from a brother all night. Im not. Nobodys touching me. Nobody hit me. Not this. I mean i had to raise me around the whole classroom. And so he got hired and he said, im tired. You me, theres definitely a social worker caught me and so hurt should change for relationship for school forever. What if Somebody Just asked the girl what dev. Cuz i remember like no, i just got beat last night. I got to talk to some place assignment for what besides, what is somebodys just this little girl . What was going on . Like i dont remember its come up to the 3rd age of 13. I want to find somebody off my black body, my black female body, and then i was punished because i wanted to dress pants because im like, like i dont pass, you cant get up there, easy enough. So when i bought a video, a lot of stuff came up for me and i was like, oh they dont get to watch because the law, i know what it means to margaret alone. They dont have that. No. And then you said no, you dont treat her like this and then you get arrested. Oh, come on, not, not, not, not like heres good to be beautiful in love. Then they get to fill their full expression of themselves and not feel like to oh if im not this, im not ok. They were board whole perfect, complete. Its up to us to keep it like not the its our refund. The ok if the elephant in a row be very clear. When this went down was i like, oh theres a grown man who just assaulted a child . Yes, i did for a girl who wouldnt get out of her chair. Right. Right. Thats a child my god, this little girl. Is there any other way that this could have gone down . This is like just insane. And i still cant understand how it hasnt been like chicago or i apologize. It shouldnt look different. There hasnt been apology. I think she is old one of the, the, youre critical of, of the situation in critical with me. I think thats fine. I was acting as a uniform police officer. Obviously, i was terminated for the, for the institute for the use of force because the share felt like it was improper. Okay. But certainly it wasnt, you know, it wasnt no salt in any way, shape or form. You know, i was a political victim in this situation. Mean i was cut loose pics politically. It made sense. If i follow policy and procedure and i filed the law, theres nothing more i can do because thats my responsibility. Thats the earliest that i took. I just, i, i continue to my Law Enforcement level. I stand by what i did that so you say you came in from the eyes of a police officer. It didnt have to go that far. But if im looking at a criminal and not a child. Yeah, can go that far because i read the report, the class wasnt really interrupted until the teacher got upset, but she wouldnt leave. Why not remove the other kids and handle her because you said youve known her before, so it was some deeper stuff. So there could have been a light, what is it thats making you not want to be . Well, the certainly understand, but close to me that feel the same way you knew about that situation when youre talking about classroom management, things like that. So its not the 1st time ive heard that, and thats fair. If i went to follow the patrol, when i called to a Movie Theater to room, somebody from Movie Theater, i would ask the Movie Theater before i went to a restaurant and need to remove somebody from a restaurant, witness the restaurant of right. And so i viewed it from a police standpoint and thats, thats where we keep going back to the system that created this to happen. You havent been my focus for the system has been my focus. I dont believe police in be in schools. Theres no reason that you should have been called in period. All right, i got you. Yeah. So let me, let me say a couple things. One is i would say obviously, you know, we, we know that, and thats our honest school doesnt mean safety. I dont disagree with that. One of the biggest issues for me right now is the stickiness arose and schools wont even try in properly. But the guy who does it goes back a little bit. Its okay to disappointed is okay, the whole kids accountable. Im not saying kids dont get to be held accountable. Always tend is like what does that accountability look like . We should not have a law where kids are being arrested for things that they cant get arrested outside industry for the the analysis. What theyve done to supply the tv, is it the thing you can put them in . So facade and the, and therefore the window at assuming that the to, for them to look into intermedia. Nikoto is the dimensions of the photo im seeing send the most of the to the the most in the the, to look at the system. What system are you referring to . You say the system we need to change the system. I hope you understand. So when i say systems, im talking about governmental education, institutionalized, racism, all the policies, they recreate, all the laws that we create, thats what i mean about the system. Okay . So, you know, you know, the systematic race isnt always kind of stuff. I think its talking points, i think it sounds really good on its face, but its one of those things were, were taking the honest, again off the kids and saying, hey, youre not responsible for your bad behavior. What were going to do is were going to blame it on the system. And one of the things that, you know, we, we looked at with the service law was brought up a lot. Was additional force on that of black is were rest of the white is right. And it just for, for somebody black is or suspended to white kids. I mean, as you look as a whole, i mean you, you or any School District thats going to be the case. Okay. Why is that happening . In your opinion . There is a tendency to think that like kids or automatically at bought, those one was run in the hallways. And this little friend in the hallway. Yes. This one got the discipline referral and thats what i was like. Well, you know, you cant do that is something going on. Theres a way that where with young people, depending on if theyre white versus children of color, and thats the best its a sickly prove in, in the schools where the, where it was disproportional. They also have black deputies. How do you explain that . Are these bodies, black deputies and these black teachers . Are they part of the system thats hurting last name . Then we talk about internalized oppression. So if i see that ive been trained all my life, that this is better than this, i push the same narrative and i act in accordance to so yeah, we can go all day on the problems. I dont, i cant talk about problems too much because we already know their, their focus is how do the trace solutions. How do we create solutions . And we keep talking about holding kids accountable, but we get to hold adults accountable too because were responsible for the next generation we really got are right. I think thats good. And i think that going back, somebody can make a point of the class. The a child is barrier and i literally only came here to stay for 2 days. So to look out right now and to know what weve been doing and how many girls i got. So huh. Im having a moment, the say no matter what this world tells us you are, you are a, you are the crowd because the more so we are the 1st by noon and there were some challenges ahead. She didnt want to sit in the classroom with her back towards the door. So i had to rearrange my classroom to make sure that she was comfortable for her. Not the fear of someone coming up behind her. She expressed that, hey, im not getting bad. That i told them either by a reading teacher, but i told her i said if you put your mind to is something that you can do. It was almost 2 years is that she had a word to accomplish this goal should have just so many challenges before. She just wants someone to care the once she figured out the hey, a care what i do and it matters what i do that made all the different, the long road. If you use this is evidence that no matter what life throw into a mouse and that you cant get past nothing that you can create. Yeah. And havent you to, thanks for a lot youve been like there is times where i can get to the doctor use like the 2nd mom to make sure i got there. You will not be away. No matter what time of day was to be there. You know, i can come you and tell you everything and know a lot of our thoughts made me keep on. Thank you. What happens to you should not happen to anybody . But like i told you from the beginning and youve got me for life, my life shifted totally change on a 1000. So congress that we wouldnt have known and been able to reach, weve been able to reach rate. And so, and i, oh thats the, thats last this. So you got me for life. My word is my boss. So the, there are many people in this country, especially in South Carolina who say, yeah, slaverys done. Whats the big deal . Right, why do black people act like as theyre still in slain use array of slavery . The 1st lady was yesterday, so i can just ended, nobodys owning people anymore. But we have inherited that mentality of racial oppression. This idea that within our society, certain people belonging to certain places, black people belong in a subjugated space like they, they belong in there and under class of people. And if youre in the under class, then you do what youre told you dont challenge the system. And your face is to make white people comfortable by not talking about race by not acting out by not by changing the way we talk and changing the way we act. So the white people so comfortable windows and rooms of who belongs, where is challenged. Thats when the rad, this felt the america, the recent debt, sup, george boyd, brianna taylor, barbary or off fueling massive demonstrations. Nationwide. Testers are demanding justice americans have been facing systemic racism for the are now the dont get to leave what happened to Spring Valley . What brought us here around there was a 17 Year Old Girl watching 3 figures a black body and they know you can do yours. 17 year old blank girl being, you know, you can do this. The nation just had the i keep spanish not about be and once again this is bigger than him. Hes a representation of what we see on a larger scale with white america. He still doesnt understand the difference between accountability and blame. So as long as he thinks hes going to be blind, hes never going to say, oh, i see my role in the face a been which is one bad apple . Well no, this whole barrow is contaminated as long as this garden at the top. And thats a place where its being granite. Permission is going to be another band on another day, the way the man from the lease. And i still need to contact your school board, your major and your governor and tell them Police Officers to be removed as social services education, our teachers, because our lives depend on it. But also im very clear and im gonna get emotional. I know i am showing up in a fight for a long time. The think weve actually shipped over. We dont change it now or will never change it again. This is the moment the test today and downtown away this time by students, theyre pushing to eliminate the School Police to for the on the protesters. Little march through oakland, california on tuesday to demand police free one, pennsylvania and the Education Rights that work on on the district to remove police from campuses, Minneapolis School boards that it would no longer use city police as School Resource officer. The so im headed to michigan in the middle of a pandemic because the girl who we are referring to is grace was arrested for failing to complete her Online School work. Ringback i prefer not to have to travel again in the hope is that wont even be an opportunity for me to go because there will be no more. She, cars and graces the the, [000 00 00;00] the bus can do i, but just keep them in the system with key at the washington state. The pals the computer system, the phone, i assume that there are 2 of us to professionally prep the list of all. But each what they use for level the, what is part of is it that the employee would post good. Isnt the deepest you of us and that in the word part, is it something deeper, more complex might be present . Good. Lets stop without cases. Lets go out of the, in the headlights here. Were talking to National Moscow says ukraine is being used by the west to wage an open war against russia. 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