You know that super upsetting viral video of a school’s resource officer violently slamming down and dragging away a teenage girl from her desk? Well, Raven-Symone saw it, too, and had some absolute nonsense to say about it in an after-segment of “The View.”
“The girl was told multiple times to get off the phone. There’s no right or reason for him to be doing this type of harm; that’s ridiculous. But at the same time, you gotta follow the rules in school. First of all, why are there cellphones in school? This shouldn’t even be a problem to begin with, and he shouldn’t have been acting like that on top of it.”
No. Full-stop, what the student was doing at her desk is irrelevant. You absolutely do not treat a child like this. If you do, you are a monster. I don’t care who you are or what job you have. And while, incidentally, there’s no video of this girl actually being on her phone, and most students have their phones at school — that wasn’t uncommon even when Raven-Symone was a teenager — that’s completely inconsequential.
And while Paula Faris had her own creepy “children today don’t respect authority” stuff to add (which, incidentally, basically every generation to ever live has had people say of younger people), Raven’s statements really struck a nerve with anyone who cares about child welfare and child safety. It doesn’t matter what this girl said or what she did, because the officer is the adult and should act like one.
That resource officer, whose name is Ben Fields, did the exact opposite of his job. Jumping to defend him or to attack the victim — a child — is so, super gross. Shame on you, Raven-Symone. And shame on anyone who agrees with her.