Middle-school girl is body-slammed by a Texas officer

Alyssa Rangel published a post on April 7, 2016 titled, "Texas officer appears to body-slam middle-school girl in shocking viral video." In this post, Alyssa explains the story of a Texas officer, Joshua Khem, who was trying to restrain a middle school student in San Antonio who was apparently being verbally aggressive with another student. Alyssa explains that during this process the officer was video taped, which showed him slamming the student onto a brick walkway, then proceeding to handcuff her, and then taking her away. This student was 12 year old, Janissa Valdez.

I agree with Alyssa that Police Officers are being targeted a lot more in todays' society than ever before. Officers are being watched more closely than ever before, and being scrutinized by citizens about every detail, no matter what it may be. I also agree with Alyssa and what she says about the videos that are recorded during these particular situations. In most of these situations when there is a video recorded, and with officers being attacked more by the public, it seems that the whole story isn't shown directly. Instead, it seems that in the showing of these videos, it only captures the confrontation and the outcome, which usually ends up being bad for one of the parties involved. In this case, it would be officer Joshua Khem.

With that being said, I DO NOT agree with how the officer handled this situation. This was a 12 year old girl for goodness sake! There was no reason for the officer to body slam this girl. Joshua Khem, being an officer, should know the rules about the appropriate use of force, which I don't believe that he used. I do not need the full video clip to know that this officer handled this situation poorly, and I am glad that he was put on leave by the head administrators, although in my opinion I think he deserves much more.