Where's her father, who should be around to comfort and support her after her mom passed?  If he's not dead, then he's probably nowhere to be found or in the hoosegow.   

Both the officer and the student were in the wrong.  The student was being non-compliant and perhaps disruptive.  She clearly did not want to leave her desk, so they should have moved her AND the desk - all at once - out to the hall, to the back corner of the classroom with her nose facing the corner, or down to the principal's office.

Also, I see the officer's actions as an act of frustration, not racism.  His thankless job is to put up with all sorts of teenage bullshit, day after day, and he may have reached his tipping point with that student (WHICH IS NO EXCUSE).  My point is, it wasn't racism.  Not everything that involves a black and a white is racism.

I spent one school year as a substitute teacher and there were a few times when I would've LOVED to get a kid in a headlock before tossing them through a window. 

I +1 the graveyard spiral logo! Fuck yea!!!

"Fuck" can be said here?  I can't think of any forum in which I could say fuck without the Ban Hammer.