Three Chicago police officers caught on video tasing a 16-year-old female student and punching her at a school in the city’s West Side will not be returning to campus until an investigation is completed, a Chicago Public Schools spokesperson announced.
The disturbing video, taken at Marshall High School, shows three officers taking down Dnigma Howard, a black student, by repeatedly using a stun gun on her and striking her with a closed fist. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Cook County prosecutors say police had been called to the school last Tuesday to remove Dnigma from the campus after she’d been involved in an earlier altercation.
But the intensity of the officers’ reaction to the young girl drew widespread condemnation online from educators, parents, and social justice advocates alike, raising old questions about what—if any—role police should play on K-12 campuses.
Dnigma’s father, Laurentio Howard, who was at the school and witnessed his daughter being tased, said the incident shows why Chicago police shouldn’t be in schools.
“My first instinct was to protect her,” Howard told the Sun-Times. “But they told me to step back, so I could only watch. I told them they didn’t need to do that.”
Howard also pointed out that his daughter is on an Individualized Education Program, a specialized education plan for eligible students.
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Like everyone else, we need answers and we want some type of justice to be done. The way those police officers acted in the video released was uncalled for and it was definitely excessive force involved. While I won't include the video in this article, you can view it just about anywhere, but be warned it is disturbing.
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