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Posted on 11/05/2019 8:06:00 PM PST by heartwood
A Florida sheriff's deputy is facing a felony charge after he was caught on camera violently slamming a 15-year-old female student to the ground. The deputy worked at a school for children with emotional and behavioral problems.
The silent two-and-a-half-minute video shows Willard Miller talking to the girl before suddenly rushing her. He's then seen grabbing her by the throat and slamming her onto the ground. Miller then flips the teen onto her stomach, before forcibly lifting her up and throwing her out of the room.
"His actions were deplorable. They were uncalled for and they violated multiple policies just on the optics," said Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony.
It's unclear what prompted the response at Cross Creek School in Pompano Beach. School security cameras show the girl walking up behind Miller and tapping the back of his knees with her foot, causing his legs to buckle, before walking away. The sheriff would not say what Miller and the girl said to each other after the knee tap, but he said nothing the girl said or did justifies the 38-year-old deputy's actions.
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Deputy lets a student with serious behavior problems come behind him, and push him in the knee. Finishes his texting and does a major take down on undersized, annoying, but harmless student.
Student does not look as old as 15, a small 11 or 12 by size.
Maybe deputy dealing with personal bad news on phone, took it out on student.
Wrong buttons pushed. Bush’s fault.
While what he did was wrong, she really shouldn’t have done the buckle thing.
Too much media showing little skinny girls taking down adult men is likely a factor in this type of activity.
She learned a couple of lessons here I think:
First, men don’t always just roll over and submit, allowing the female aggressor impunity when struck, and second:
Men are far more capable of calculated, intense, yet still measured violence at the drop of a hat than she could imagine. He could have easily done a crapload more damage, but still restrained himself.
He should be fired at the very least, but I am pretty sure she won’t pull that little trick again.
“Student does not look as old as 15, a small 11 or 12 by size. “
Well it did say this was a school for special needs kids so that may be why she was small. Still they should homeschool her.
(Start at 1:18:31)
Dr. Cole: He had an epiphany; he was going to become a cop!
Eric Olsen: Ha ha ha what??? Uh, so, wait a minute, he was told by a former employer, if you ever, you better never get a job where you have influence over others, an authority position, or I’ll do whatever it takes to stop you. So wouldn’t becoming a cop kinda give him the ultimate authority over people?
Dr. Cole: Well, you know, lucky for all these other people, he kept moving from county to county so they weren’t really, uh, yeah, it is the ultimate authority he was just moving around so people wouldn’t know what he was doing, and I think getting out of the teaching profession they didn’t know what he was going to do.
He eventually applied to the Broward County Police Unit; he was rejected, though, because he failed the psychological test.
Eric Olsen: Oh that’s it he’s out of the career. No career for him He’s obviously unstable…
Dr. Cole: One, you know what? One would think so, and I actually used to perform these psych tests, and oh, do I have stories! You would think that it would even, it’s supposed to, let me tell you how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to prevent you from getting a job as a police officer or a prison guard.
Eric Olsen: Sure.
Dr. Cole: Does that always occur?
Eric Olsen: I would hope that it does.
Dr. Cole: No, no, no, I would say 50% of the time.
Eric Olsen: What?
Dr. Cole: It’s supposed to be a be a requirement, a REQUIREMENT, if you don’t pass, if you are not psychologically fit, you are not supposed to become a police officer or a prison guard. Does that actually preclude you from becoming a police officer even as long ago as what, 2005? No, I was doing them in 2005. Half of the people I rejected still became a cop.
Eric Olsen: How does that happen? How do they get around this?
Dr. Cole: Oh God there so many ways
Eric Olsen: Is it a buddy, a dad?
Dr. Cole: My son, he’s the son of my buddy, his dad is a cop, he has to be a cop, he’s going to work in this county and we’re really understaffed, we need people, we know he failed, but it’s OK. The amount of excuses I heard to employ people.
And that’s the thing, just so the general public is aware, it’s difficult to fail, it’s difficult to fail one of these psychological…
Eric Olsen: What would cause one…
Dr. Cole: It’s not like the bar is so darned high that no one could pass, it’s nothing LIKE that, this test is just to find out is this person basically psychologically stable, are they non-sadistic, do they not have criminal or punishing tendencies or narcissistic tendencies themselves. Basically you’re trying to weed out anybody that has a like God complex; I’m judge, jury, and executioner. You want to get those people out of there. You’re trying to get people out of there that are just psychiatrically so unstable that they can’t control their emotions so, maybe some sort of bipolar thing going on or somebody that absolutely clearly has a personality disorder, like narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder. They are not
Eric Olsen: Checks and balances. Checks and balances to protect the general public from somebody that would not do well in that position.
Dr. Cole: And I was very, yeah, I was extremely, forgiving on these psychological tests even when somebody would sort of hit sort of some of those marks on the tests we would give, I would ask in interviews I would ask a ton of questions just to be very, very sure that this person was indeed failing the psychological exam, and I did not fail that many people, but the people I failed, please believe me that it was for extremely good reasons, extremely good reasons, and half of them became cops anyway.
Eric Olsen: So when they‘d leave would they go to a different state and do it?
Dr. Cole: Hah no, they would get hired by different a county, like a couple minutes over usually. Somebody knew them and “Now let’s pick them up.” “No, no, no, he has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder, you really shouldn’t hire him” and they would. And that’s exactly, I hope it’s different that was like I said, this was in 2005, it scared the heck out of me and I said I would never have a career doing that I don’t want to know that those people are becoming officers.
Eric Olsen: Tell me it’s in the minority, though, that this happens.
Dr. Cole: It’s in the minority that people fail, the majority of people passed. But those that do fail, like I said it’s for very good reason, but half of them. Half of them got picked up. So no, it’s not a minority a full 50% got hired.
Eric Olsen: That is truly a scary number out there that 50% of...
Dr. Cole: It’s a small sample, a small sample that was in a place that was economically depressed and needed officers…
(End at 1:23:29)
Those who have trouble controlling their anger are not ideal candidates for law enforcement.
Broward County never disappoints. Dem controlled cornhole.
“School security cameras show the girl walking up behind Miller and tapping the back of his knees with her foot, causing his legs to buckle, before walking away.”
That part of the footage isn’t being shown.
Who knows what’s going on here, but the “knee buckle” thing didn’t cause him any harm and didn’t seem to be the instigating incident. He ignored her after that and it must have been what she was saying that set him off.
See post 9.
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Body language: kid is not playing Black Widow/Captain Marvel. She’s bored, attention-seeking, and poking the bear, which is dangerous in its own right. She hasn’t even hit puberty, and she moves like a boy.
I don’t disagree with what you say but I don’t think it applies here.
I was wondering when someone was going to snark on the victim. It never fails.
I didn’t snark on the victim, I merely noted that she made a VERY poor choice and tried to relate a possible contributing factor.
She has an excuse for bad judgement, she’s young and inexperienced. As another poster said, she “poked the bear”. Trying to understand/interpret her mindset from a short silent video clip is NOT victim blaming. Nice try though.
The cop is an idiot and deserves serious disciplinary actions against him.
The cop is a child abuser. He may well spend some hard prison time.
Thanks
He isn’t policing the mean streets, and he isn’t making an arrest.
He’s got a job where he gets to text a lot. He’s supposed to be a friendly face of the law, and take physical action when safety and good order are at risk.
But, hey, Respect Mah Authoritah, two minutes delayed.
She was old enough to land in the pokey.
She was old enough to know that kicking a cop is wrong AND stupid.
SURELY she knew better but just HAD to put her little foot behind the cop's knee. Knees are PARTICULARLY vulnerable.
I spend many years teaching that grade level. THIS is where she learns...or doesn't learn. This is where she learns what's "cute" and what's happens to "cute" tricks like this.
Betcha there's no permanent daddy at home. Just a guess.
I do know that if she played footsie with the back of MY knee she'd be in deep doo-doo.
He doesn't have to nor SHOULD he take that crap from anyone.
But we really know VERY LITTLE from this one photo.
What did she EXPECT? A wink of the eye? A "haha"? from him?
I wouldn't do that STUPID cutesie little trick to an ARMED officer of the law.
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