Black boy, 12, with Down Syndrome Abused by White Guard. As a "Joke."

[Statistikhengst]

White Syracuse school guard s joke gets black student to assume the position mom says syracuse.com

Brandon was accompanied on his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Eastwood by his mother, Brandiss Pearson, her husband and her father.

When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.

"Wait, wait, wait, hold on,'' Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon's hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.

"And he starts laughing and says, 'Now take the picture, he's in the right position,' '' Pearson recalled.

The insinuation went over Brandon's head. He kept smiling. But his family members were stunned, Pearson said. They hurried Brandon off to his classroom to meet his teacher and say their goodbyes. Only after she got home did Pearson stop to process what had happened.

"I was shaking, just like fire-breathing mad,'' she said. ''All he saw was a little black boy who needed to assume the position.''

Pearson is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital Heath Center. She is studying for a master's degree at Upstate University. She's on the board of directors for Home HeadQuarters...

...
Pearson reported the incident to Huntington's principal Tuesday afternoon. She tearfully confronted the security guard, or school sentry, Wednesday when she saw him in the hallway. He responded that he thought it was "a funny joke,'' she said.

School administrators put the sentry on leave Wednesday while they look into the incident, said Michael Henesey, coordinator of communications for the school district. Henesey declined to identify the sentry. Pearson said she did not know the sentry's full name.

Update:

Syracuse district fires white school guard for joke having black child assume the position syracuse.com

After reviewing video footage and taking statements, the Syracuse school district fired a white school sentry who was accused of having a 12-year-old black child "assume the position'' while his family took pictures of him on the first day of school.

District officials today said their investigation confirmed that the unnamed employee acted inappropriately.

"The poor judgment and thoughtless actions of one employee should not reflect upon the overwhelming majority of the Syracuse City School District's educators and support staff who give selflessly to our 21,000 students each and every day," the district said in a press release today...

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Looks like the school system reacted very quickly to this vicious form of racism.

I just wonder how people can be so stupid as to think they can do this shit and still hold on to a job.

And you know, there is just no accounting for taste, but a number of nutbags, it would appear, need to reassess what "funny" is.

Just amazing.

Wonder how long it will take before the KKK starts collecting $$$ for the dude who was fired...

...

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Fire the guard, sue the security company that provided him, civil sue the guard personally as a warning to other stupid people.

 

[Jroc]

White Syracuse school guard s joke gets black student to assume the position mom says syracuse.com

Brandon was accompanied on his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Eastwood by his mother, Brandiss Pearson, her husband and her father.

When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.

"Wait, wait, wait, hold on,'' Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon's hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.

"And he starts laughing and says, 'Now take the picture, he's in the right position,' '' Pearson recalled.

The insinuation went over Brandon's head. He kept smiling. But his family members were stunned, Pearson said. They hurried Brandon off to his classroom to meet his teacher and say their goodbyes. Only after she got home did Pearson stop to process what had happened.

"I was shaking, just like fire-breathing mad,'' she said. ''All he saw was a little black boy who needed to assume the position.''

White people have D

Pearson is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital Heath Center. She is studying for a master's degree at Upstate University. She's on the board of directors for Home HeadQuarters...

...
Pearson reported the incident to Huntington's principal Tuesday afternoon. She tearfully confronted the security guard, or school sentry, Wednesday when she saw him in the hallway. He responded that he thought it was "a funny joke,'' she said.

School administrators put the sentry on leave Wednesday while they look into the incident, said Michael Henesey, coordinator of communications for the school district. Henesey declined to identify the sentry. Pearson said she did not know the sentry's full name.

Update:

Syracuse district fires white school guard for joke having black child assume the position syracuse.com

After reviewing video footage and taking statements, the Syracuse school district fired a white school sentry who was accused of having a 12-year-old black child "assume the position'' while his family took pictures of him on the first day of school.

District officials today said their investigation confirmed that the unnamed employee acted inappropriately.

"The poor judgment and thoughtless actions of one employee should not reflect upon the overwhelming majority of the Syracuse City School District's educators and support staff who give selflessly to our 21,000 students each and every day," the district said in a press release today...

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Looks like the school system reacted very quickly to this vicious form of racism.

I just wonder how people can be so stupid as to think they can do this shit and still hold on to a job.

And you know, there is just no accounting for taste, but a number of nutbags, it would appear, need to reassess what "funny" is.

Just amazing.

Wonder how long it will take before the KKK starts collecting $$$ for the dude who was fired...

...

I wonder how long it'll be before you are not obsessed with race? These are individuals... Race hustler idiot

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Have to be blind and dumber than the kid to believe this wasn't about race.

 

[Esmeralda]

School security guards are not generally well trained or educated: they are not paid well, so you are not going to get the best. The schools do fingerprint background checks to, hopefully, avoid hiring criminals: that's about it.

 

[Esmeralda]

Have to be blind and dumber than the kid to believe this wasn't about race.

Consciously or unconsciously, it is about race. I remember a long time ago, a friend of my who was in nursing school was doing training in a hospital maternity ward. One day, all the nurses in the unit were putting little animal stickers on each bassinette. One nurse put the picture of a little monkey on the bassinette of a black baby. She didn't do it purposely, but she was just too dense to realize what she was doing. Someone changed it as soon as it was discovered. It is a matter of being sensitive to connotations.

 

[katsteve2012]

White Syracuse school guard s joke gets black student to assume the position mom says syracuse.com

Brandon was accompanied on his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Eastwood by his mother, Brandiss Pearson, her husband and her father.

When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.

"Wait, wait, wait, hold on,'' Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon's hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.

"And he starts laughing and says, 'Now take the picture, he's in the right position,' '' Pearson recalled.

The insinuation went over Brandon's head. He kept smiling. But his family members were stunned, Pearson said. They hurried Brandon off to his classroom to meet his teacher and say their goodbyes. Only after she got home did Pearson stop to process what had happened.

"I was shaking, just like fire-breathing mad,'' she said. ''All he saw was a little black boy who needed to assume the position.''

Pearson is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital Heath Center. She is studying for a master's degree at Upstate University. She's on the board of directors for Home HeadQuarters...

...
Pearson reported the incident to Huntington's principal Tuesday afternoon. She tearfully confronted the security guard, or school sentry, Wednesday when she saw him in the hallway. He responded that he thought it was "a funny joke,'' she said.

School administrators put the sentry on leave Wednesday while they look into the incident, said Michael Henesey, coordinator of communications for the school district. Henesey declined to identify the sentry. Pearson said she did not know the sentry's full name.

Update:

Syracuse district fires white school guard for joke having black child assume the position syracuse.com

After reviewing video footage and taking statements, the Syracuse school district fired a white school sentry who was accused of having a 12-year-old black child "assume the position'' while his family took pictures of him on the first day of school.

District officials today said their investigation confirmed that the unnamed employee acted inappropriately.

"The poor judgment and thoughtless actions of one employee should not reflect upon the overwhelming majority of the Syracuse City School District's educators and support staff who give selflessly to our 21,000 students each and every day," the district said in a press release today...

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Looks like the school system reacted very quickly to this vicious form of racism.

I just wonder how people can be so stupid as to think they can do this shit and still hold on to a job.

And you know, there is just no accounting for taste, but a number of nutbags, it would appear, need to reassess what "funny" is.

Just amazing.

Wonder how long it will take before the KKK starts collecting $$$ for the dude who was fired...

...

Of course he had every right to make him "assume the position". Like all young black boys( according to most in this forum) he was a "dangerous thug" about to committ a crime.

Lucky for the "thug", the "rent a cop" was not armed, or he would be dead.

 

[Statistikhengst]

White Syracuse school guard s joke gets black student to assume the position mom says syracuse.com

Brandon was accompanied on his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Eastwood by his mother, Brandiss Pearson, her husband and her father.

When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.

"Wait, wait, wait, hold on,'' Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon's hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.

"And he starts laughing and says, 'Now take the picture, he's in the right position,' '' Pearson recalled.

The insinuation went over Brandon's head. He kept smiling. But his family members were stunned, Pearson said. They hurried Brandon off to his classroom to meet his teacher and say their goodbyes. Only after she got home did Pearson stop to process what had happened.

"I was shaking, just like fire-breathing mad,'' she said. ''All he saw was a little black boy who needed to assume the position.''

White people have D

Pearson is a registered nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital Heath Center. She is studying for a master's degree at Upstate University. She's on the board of directors for Home HeadQuarters...

...
Pearson reported the incident to Huntington's principal Tuesday afternoon. She tearfully confronted the security guard, or school sentry, Wednesday when she saw him in the hallway. He responded that he thought it was "a funny joke,'' she said.

School administrators put the sentry on leave Wednesday while they look into the incident, said Michael Henesey, coordinator of communications for the school district. Henesey declined to identify the sentry. Pearson said she did not know the sentry's full name.

Update:

Syracuse district fires white school guard for joke having black child assume the position syracuse.com

After reviewing video footage and taking statements, the Syracuse school district fired a white school sentry who was accused of having a 12-year-old black child "assume the position'' while his family took pictures of him on the first day of school.

District officials today said their investigation confirmed that the unnamed employee acted inappropriately.

"The poor judgment and thoughtless actions of one employee should not reflect upon the overwhelming majority of the Syracuse City School District's educators and support staff who give selflessly to our 21,000 students each and every day," the district said in a press release today...

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Looks like the school system reacted very quickly to this vicious form of racism.

I just wonder how people can be so stupid as to think they can do this shit and still hold on to a job.

And you know, there is just no accounting for taste, but a number of nutbags, it would appear, need to reassess what "funny" is.

Just amazing.

Wonder how long it will take before the KKK starts collecting $$$ for the dude who was fired...

...

I wonder how long it'll be before you are not obsessed with race? These are individuals... Race hustler idiot

I'm not obsessed with race at all, oh impolite Jroc. I simply reported a current event. You don't like the content? Well, tough fuck for you.

 

[whitehall]

A Syracuse school guard? Remember when the freaking president used the Down's Syndrome "special olympics" as a joke in his stand up comedy routine during his first term? How about the time democrats made fun of Sara Palin's Down's Syndrome baby?

 

[Statistikhengst]

A Syracuse school guard? Remember when the freaking president used the Down's Syndrome "special olympics" as a joke in his stand up comedy routine during his first term? How about the time democrats made fun of Sara Palin's Down's Syndrome baby?

Oh, the butthurt, the butthurt. So, do you have anything relevant to say about the OP?

 

[Tank]

In the mean time:

 

[hjmick]

Shouldn't that be "black youth?" Or "black child?"


Geez, what a racist...

 

[Statistikhengst]

Shouldn't that be "black youth?" Or "black child?"


Geez, what a racist...

Why? At 12, a young man is still a boy.

 

[Tank]

Boy, is a racist term to blacks

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Have to be blind and dumber than the kid to believe this wasn't about race.

So when the black cop handcuffed the white autistic kid was that racial too?

 

[Statistikhengst]

Have to be blind and dumber than the kid to believe this wasn't about race.

So when the black cop handcuffed the white autistic kid was that racial too?

Gotta link?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Have to be blind and dumber than the kid to believe this wasn't about race.

So when the black cop handcuffed the white autistic kid was that racial too?

Gotta link?

It had its own thread. Just admit you don't care and this is nothing but a left wing hack attack against supposed white racism. Remind us where you stand on the fact that 13.5 percent of the population is responsible for 23 percent of all hate crimes, which includes the fact most cities and States won't even charge them as such?

 

[hjmick]

Have to be blind and dumber than the kid to believe this wasn't about race.

So when the black cop handcuffed the white autistic kid was that racial too?

Sorry Sarge, in the case you are referring to the reason for cuffing the kid stemmed from his threatening to harm himself. While cuffing him may have been a step too far, I do not believe the incident was racially motivated.

Autistic Kissimmee boy 10 handcuffed and put on back of... www.wftv.com

Putting the kid face down on the trunk was also a questionable move...

 

[Peach]

I accept the possibility neither incident was motivated by race..................once more, fear and irrational reaction to disabilities....................................................

 

[ScienceRocks]

I think it is wrong to treat a disabled person like this.