Texas, where the hats are wide-brimmed and the cops body slam 12-year-old girls to the ground.

This video comes out of San Antonio, where the police officer is now under investigation for the incident. Joshua Kehm may be in seriously hot water, the girl in the video suffering a swollen bruise near her right eye.

NYDaily to dish the dirt:

“You could actually hear her head hit the concrete. That’s what hurt me the most,” Gloria Valdez, Janissa’s mother, [said]. “And he didn’t even seem like it bothered him. And he still handcuffed her after she was unconscious.”

The officer told the concerned mother he “did what he had to do at the moment,” Valdez said…

Officer Kehm has been placed on paid administrative leave while the school administration and the district police investigate the video.

Kehm claims he was called to the scene to break up a fight, although Janissa claims she was in the process of talking it out.

Whatever the situation you can’t help but feel Kehm needs to be disciplined. No one is saying keeping kids in order is an easy job, but unnecessarily violent incidents such as these serve only to inflame an already tense situation between the public and the police.

[source:nydailynews]

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