Post by pavel on Apr 11, 2016 19:24:29 GMT -6
District Fires Cop Who Threw Girl to Ground in Viral Video
San Antonio ISD officer Joshua Kehm had completed trainings on active shooters and gangs but hadn’t yet finished school policing instruction.
Officer Joshua Kehm, who was shown in a widely circulated video throwing a 12-year-old Central Texas student to the ground, was fired Monday by the San Antonio Independent School District Police Department. He’d worked for the district for more than a year, but had not yet completed a new course in school policing, which the state began offering in early 2016.
In a video that broke on the San Antonio blog Ghost-0 on April 5, Kehm is shown walking behind a girl at Rhodes Middle School in late March, holding her arms behind her back before throwing her down. The girl’s head slams against the brick walkway, stunning a group of surrounding students.
In 2015, the Texas Legislature passed a requirement that officers working in districts with 30,000 or more students complete a course in school policing, including instruction in “de-escalation techniques and techniques for limiting the use of force.” The deadline for completing that course is June 1. San Antonio ISD spokeswoman Leslie Price told the Observer that Kehm was halfway through the course when he was fired.
Read more: www.texasobserver.org/saisd-joshua-kehm-fired/