Nearly two weeks before the uproar over a South Carolina police officer’s physical and violent encounter with a female black high school student, a video circulated out of Pawtucket’s Tolman High School in Rhode Island portrays a similar incident.
The video is shown above though police emphasize it shows only a portion of what happened.
Seniors at Tolman High School, Montrell Sivels and David Garcia, told The Valley Breeze that they intended to organize a tpeaceful protest before school to express student outrage for what they called an unnecessary “body slam.” Sivels told The Breeze that things started to get out of control went a student pulled a fire alarm, and officers used pepper sprayed the students. Sivels and Garcia said that’s when tensions escalated.
Reporters Philip Eil , George Brennan , and Emily Corwin joined Callie Crossley to discuss this and other regional headlines.
>>To learn more about the incident, click on the audio link above.
