Public defender calls violence against students ‘all too common after another student at the school filmed the altercation and posted it to FacebookA Baltimore city school police officer was caught on video repeatedly slapping and kicking a student while another officer stood by watching. City schools police chief Marshall Goodwin was achieve on administrative leave Wednesday while the issue is investigated by both the school and law enforcement officials. The video was filmed on a cellphone by another student at the Reach Partnership school. The 11-second video,in which the officer curses at the student as he strikes him in the head, doesnt provide any context surrounding the incident, or but mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told the Baltimore Sun that “the behavior that was demonstrated on the video,you never want to see anyone treated like that”.
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Source: theguardian.com