An SAISD Police Officer, Joshua Kehm, is seen in this video body slamming a 12-year-old middle school girl, which appears to have knocked her out unconscious for a brief moment.
Struggling to restrain 6th grader Janissa Valdez, who was reportedly involved in an argument with a peer, Kehm can be seen to slam her to the ground with force.
As the district police officer cuffs the dazed girl, shocked students can be heard asking if she is okay after apparently landing on her face.
“This video is very concerning, and we are working to get all of the details,” Leslie Price, San Antonio Independent School District spokesperson, told local media.
“We certainly want to understand what all occurred, and we are not going to tolerate excessive force in our district.”
The police smackdown happened on March 29. The girl’s mother has said her daughter doesn’t remember the arrest as she was knocked out by the alarming incident.
The incident took place on March 29, 2016, at around 4 PM at Rhodes Middle school in San Antonio, Texas.
The school should suspend that police guy. No classes (or soup) for you.
The rest of the class should have piled on top of the officer and restrained him with his cuffs instead!
The fact that schools even need full time cops tells you everything you need to know. Shit on a shingle, the worst that would happen when I was in school would be a fist fight over a girl; there’d be a bloody nose or lip and within 10 minutes everyone would be back to learning and the janitor would be cleaning the last of the evidence off the floor. If you wanted a more serious fight, you’d meet in the woods behind the school after the school day ended. In just about every case, the dispute was settled, and that was the end of it.
Yojimbk, you are correct about today’s tires and their lack of restraint or self control. But if you can’t restrain a 12 year old GIRL without resorting to bouncing her head off The pavement you have no business being a cop.
Wow autocorrect fucked me up there. Sorry guys
The video doesn’t show what happened that made Officer Joshua Kehm restrain Janissa Valdez. I have read that she was the victim of bullying; if so, unfortunate. But, in this incident, did she do anything dangerous that forced Kehm to stop her physically?
Furthermore, many of today’s youths are shockingly spoiled and entitled – with poor parenting comes rotten children. I hope Valdez isn’t like this, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
I don’t think she was unconscious, or even hit her head–6 seconds later she was standing and walked ahead of the cop out of the room…you’d think that the officer could have subdued a child of 12 a little easier than that though.
Who is the girl doing the voice-over while taping the incident?–sounds like the daughter of the “frito bandito” with the inflection on the words.
The more I see of the youth of today on campuses, rioting and civil unrest at political events to shout/shut down opposing political events–and even the fighting against teachers and authority at grammar school levels–makes me wonder if we’re not being set up for a Khmer Rouge type event in our future.
That copfuk is lucky I am not her father. He would be in a scooter chair steering with a joystick via his mouth for the rest of his life.
I cannot argue with parents who express outrage at the mere thought of their children being in Janissa Valdez’s place. However, Javelin made a good point: today’s youths are very unruly in public at brazen in their disrespect towards authority. And sadly, sometimes, it takes a blunt encounter with the real world to snap sense into them.
Greg in NC is evidently a protective father, as all fathers should be. But I would venture to say that he probably has taught his kids to respect authority. I wonder if Janissa’s parents did as well.
Hey Modern,
Regardless, there is absolutely on justification to body slam a child in such a manner. Is it OK for the copfuk to do that to his own child for acting up? Would I have gone to jail had I disciplined my daughter that way for noncompliance with my directives? We all know the answer. That badged piece of trash needs to face child abuse charges along with a string of other assault charges.
This reminds me that there are two sets of laws (google Larkin Rose. He’s an author and Libertarian). The government reserves the right to harm your kids as well as arrest you if you do the same or even less than that which they do. Didn’t a mother get arrested recently for letting her kids WALK to McDonald’s?
Sometimes, the real world hurts.
The kid was obviously just standing around minding her own business when this big brutal and violent cop decided to violently attack her for no reason.
He should be given the death sentence.
Cops should never be allowed to use force on little children, no matter the reason, and certainly when there is obviously no reason at all.
When I was in high school (1975 -79)there were a few fights . No police ,no guns , no knives just normal fighting. I don’t remember any teachers being attacked or even threatened .Drove by my old high school last year . There was two police cars out front. I later found out these cops are always there now mostly to protect teachers. Damn shame.
If you are stupid and fight the cops, guess what? They kick your ass, It happens almost every time.
I hear ‘ya bb at 3:55 pm. You are just a few years older than me, but, using a film analogy, my school at the time was more akin it “Napoleon Dynamite” as opposed to “Boys in the Hood”. Even in smaller towns in the Midwest, it is not the same anymore. The times, they are a changin’…
My wife and I couldn’t have kids for seven years, because…. we had white furniture. But seriously, in my second daughter’s third grade class, there were three black kids whom, I swear, went home every day, watched HBO and drink malt liquor. These kids were nasty. We had to deal with everything from profanity to sexual stuff. And, the school was too afraid to discipline because of political correctness. Ugggh…
A lot of people saying in the good old days they had fights with other students at school. The story says thats what this 12 yr old girl was doing too, so all the youth of today excuses dont apply. And lets get rid of the count in boxing because yoy were never out if you get on your feet again. Its not about needing to use force, its using a move that could kill the kid.
“That badged piece of trash needs to face child abuse charges along with a string of other assault charges.”
Just a second, Greg:
That badged piece of trash needs to face the child’s Father, her Uncles, and all the rest of her adult male relatives, unarmed and all by himself.
There. I like that one better.
HSF would say the kid is lucky to have to endure it as it builds character. Heh, Heh. Shit stirred. Sorry, HSF, I had to.
Greg in NC says: That copfuk is lucky I am not her father. He would be in a scooter chair steering with a joystick via his mouth for the rest of his life.
Greg, you sound like your packing balls, unlike the rest of the pussies here, tsk tsking about kids today…
I tell you, the public has been desensitized, he could have shot and killed her and these mofos here would say, well, maybe she deserved it, we don’t have all the details. What part of potentially breaking her neck do you not understand?
whatever the “context” it doesn’t look good
Regardless of the reasons or context it is very telling that this is likely acceptable behavior for the cop but over on another post a mom is arrested for child abuse for letting her 9yo cousin and 3yo son walk 1/4 mile and cross a street by themselves.
I’m not going to argue. Some of you are fathers, and your righteous rage at any cop who did this to your children would be incontestably justified.
I will however say this.
Given the horrifying levels of moral decay seen among so many of America’s youth – with kids as young as Janissa Valdez guilty of assault, battery, robbery, illegal ownership of weapons, and in some cases, rape and murder, I would venture to say that a mere “bodyslam” by a parent or guardian would’ve done a lot of good to keep them out of trouble.
Many years ago, I was walking after work. I live and work in a major (one of America’s largest) US cities. A police officer was bearhugging a drunk Asian female in her 20s. She was screaming and cursing, and he could have arrested her for disorderly conduct.
Mind you, many Asian females are physically smaller and more petite than many if not most white and black women. This police officer wasn’t even that tall, but he was, after all, a man.
He let her go. The young woman then lunged at him, trying to attack him; she was obviously angry and humiliated. It was to her fortune that a friend of hers – another young Asian woman – successfully restrained her from tackling the police officer.
You guys don’t think that if it had been a white man or a black man, that the police officer would’ve simply walked away, do you?
At times, a bit of harsh discipline is needed. I am all for opposing police brutality, but I’m also fully in support of traditional family discipline; many “youths” who ended up in prison could have used some.
Traditional family discipline can get you arrested nowadays.
“At times, a bit of harsh discipline is needed. ”
Since when is it a cop’s job to discipline other people’s children? How does assaulting a 12 year old girl equal ‘discipline’? You can answer without arguing, Just post a clarification.
“If you are stupid and fight the cops, guess what? They kick your ass, It happens almost every time.”
Well,where I come from, if you’re stupid and assault a child, some adults are going to fuck you up. It happens often enough to make assholes like this buzzcut “hero” restrain themselves.
How about a little of that?
“Since when is it a cop’s job to discipline other people’s children? How does assaulting a 12 year old girl equal ‘discipline’? You can answer without arguing, Just post a clarification.”
Although Janissa’s parents may not necessarily believe the following, many people from “marginalized” communities want police to be more than just “enforcers.” They want community involvement, relationship building, and other “extras” for the building of trust – all for the ultimate goal of better policing.
These are great ideas and even greater realities if and only if they happen.
But if they want LEOs to have “relationships” with their communities, they’re saying that they want LEOs help to mentor, teach, lead, educate kids. This is a common belief/claim by the left.
And if this is what they want, they’re then essentially saying they want LEOs to at times perform parent-like duties – and that includes discipline. That so many of these families lack good role models and/or lack a live-in parent only makes the problem worse.
Janissa is better off getting thrown by a cop like this if this helps her get her stuff aligned; it’d be a far better fate than for her to be hosting, along with other “roommates,” teenage troublemakers in prison cells. Watch “Beyond Scared Straight” if you haven’t yet – it’s a great example of communities interacting with state mechanisms to “parent” and to “discipline” children – children whose parents are so problematic the parents have no choice but to allow their kids to get screamed at by hardened, dangerous inmates.
Correction: “children whose parents are so problematic” is what I meant.
ARGH!
“children who are so problematic” is what I meant.
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Janissa is better off getting thrown by a cop like this if this helps her get her stuff aligned; it’d be a far better fate than for her to be hosting, along with other “roommates,” teenage troublemakers in prison cells. ”
I don’t agree. The child could have been killed or crippled. Being assaulted that way might be a better fate than being raped by the cop. Does that also make his actions OK?
Set aside any speculation on what benefit this girl may get from being assaulted. The central point here is that a fully grown man very nearly killed a child. I say that he would meet me very soon after committing this atrocity on a child or grandchild of mine. One of us would probably die as a result.
Let’s stick to the actual issue here. Some things a man has to address on his own or stop being the head of his family. Bowing down to an attacker of my kids and rationalizing his behavior just ain’t one of my choices, no matter what gang he belongs to.
Maybe you feel differently about it I don’t know because you haven’t said, one way or another.
With all due respect, Ed, the officer did not “nearly kill a child.” I would agree with a lawsuit if she did indeed sustain injuries, but it was far from a potentially life-ending “blow.”
I would not ever challenge either your (or Greg in NC’s) outrage if this happened to your children. Or any parents’. But I remain by my earlier point. If some communities want cops to be more than just enforcers and yet complain when cops attempt to discipline, they may need to re-examine what they want from cops and just how well they’re disciplining their kids.
“With all due respect, Ed, the officer did not “nearly kill a child.””
Yes, he did. It was only by blind luck the he didn’t break her neck or fracture her skull.. I’ve been in enough fights to know how easy it is to hurt somebody much worse than you mean to.
” but it was far from a potentially life-ending “blow.””
OK, so you’ve never really been in a real fight, and maybe you haven’t seen anyone permanently crippled or killed in a fight. I have, and that’s why I would be looking this guy up if it were my child or grandchild.
I’m not just idly pissed for no real reason that he did this to a child.
I doubt that San Antonio, “as a community” were sold this ridiculous “resource officer” program as a disciplinary measure. This shit is presented to parents as a safety measure for the kids against mass shootings or things of that nature.
I missed the paragraph in the article that stated:
“The people of this school district wanted cops in the school to discipline their kids and now they’re whining about it.”
The point you’re repeating is your own speculation, and isn’t presented as fact anywhere except in your post.
Ed, we agree to disagree. I have said before I commend your zeal for your children. Other than that, I’m done with this discussion.