School Officer Fired After Dumping Wheelchair Bound Student

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

“He responded in an extremely emotional manner.”

That was one of the excuses given by a spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District after a school resource officer was arrested on felony charges for dumping a wheelchair bound student onto the floor after punching him several times.

A wheelchair bound student, Francisco Martinez, was lingering with some other students in a hallway late for their classes.  Two officers were seen in a security camera video telling the students they needed to move on to their classrooms.  The students refused, so one of the officers, Marchell Mitchell, grabbed the handles of Martinez’ wheelchair and started to push him down the hallway.

Martinez objected and started slapping the officer’s hands in an attempt to get him to stop pushing the wheelchair.

The officer then handcuffed Martinez, struck him several times and then dumped the student onto the floor.  The school immediately fired Mitchell and had him arrested by Oakland police.

“We as a district apologize to the family of the victim,” said Oakland Unified School District spokesman Troy Flint.

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