Child advocacy groups demanded reform of Baltimore public school police policies as city police conducted a criminal investigation Thursday into a cellphone video showing an officer slapping and kicking a young man inside a school.
The male officer, identified by his lawyer as 44-year-old Anthony C. Spence, as well as a female officer shown standing by in the eight-second clip and Baltimore School Police Chief Marshall Goodwin have all been placed on paid administrative leave pending internal and external investigations into the Tuesday incident at REACH Partnership School.
Baltimore is the only Maryland city whose school district has its own police force, separate from municipal police. The school system asked city police to conduct a criminal investigation, which city police Lt. Jarron Jackson said was in the early stages Thursday.
Attorney Mike Davey told The Baltimore Sun that client Spence thought the boy was trespassing on school grounds and questioned him. Davey said he could not go into specifics because of the ongoing investigation.
According to the Sun, Spence was fired by the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office in 2003 after he and another deputy Tasered a man they mistook for a bank robber. Maryland court records also show that a protective order was filed against Spence in a 2011 domestic violence case.
The video illustrates deep-seated problems requiring systemic reform, said the Maryland Coalition to Reform School Discipline, a group that includes the American Civil Liberties Union, the Maryland NAACP and the state public defender’s office. There have been several incidents of school police using unwarranted force against students, spokesman Evan Serpick said in a statement.
There was no threat there.that punkass cop is a coward and should be fired.
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The parents need to file charges against the policeman. If parents did something like that to their child, they would be charged with child abuse. If someone was beating my child about the head like that, I would take them to the ER to have them checked out. The boy could have a concussion.
what was necessary about it !
Drj if that question was for me, my comment wasn’t in response to this article but in response to Nancy’s below, police officer’s presence in our schools. Actually your comments mirrored my comments from yesterday we are on the same page as far as the officer’s conduct and his punishment.
they should not just be on leave , they should be fired !! there was no reason for him to do him like that at all , I shudder to think what would have happened if is had been on the street or in a dark place where it was just them !! he was out of line for what he did and he ass should be fired , and charges of child abuse and what ever else they can come up with need to be filed , I got chills just watching that . if it was the parent , they would be in jail. so what makes them different , the badge .
Yes it is a shame. Unfortunately necessary.
Cop has some serious issues, that was horrible.
It is a shame that we need so many cops in schools now. Walk into a school now and it is not unusual to have 2-4 patrolling around at all times