Post Haste

Dear Mr Fields,

My name is Anas Tinkory, and I study at The London Nautical School and writing to find your view about the incident, because from what a lot of people saw, you were completely in the wrong to use that extremity of force.

The video clearly showed that after the student wouldn’t want to get out, you said “I’ll make you…” You then grabbed her by the neck and slammed her on the floor and dragged her out of the class.

It could be that the whole incident was not filmed. Maybe you were provoked, even assaulted. Unlucky for you, now there are all types of technology and (social) media. Anything can be posted with a certain caption and it will be believed. In your case maybe not the whole video was posted in favour of the young girl.

A police man is trained and can handle physical situations. You showed none of that training and acted very hypocritical and wasn’t worthy of the high ‘policeman’ status. A lot of power and status comes with a lot of responsibility.

Personally, so think you are completely in the wrong. On the teen girl, probably weaker, you used too much force. If she assaulted you, you are trained to prevent the situation climaxing. You showed no training that’s why the police are put in place, “to serve and protect”. Power with minors especially. You were supposed to set an example. You can’t fight  fire with fire. Now you are most likely disliked by many.

Now racism can be an issue. You are a white policeman and the student was a black girl. America has a dark history about racial indifferences. White people in power being unfair to the African American population in America. In America there have been around 1,100 African American deaths by the police force. For all these deaths, there have been no arrests. So 1,100 deaths were all justified. I find that very hard to believe. So now racism is in the equation, makes everything so much more complicated.

You as a fully trained police man could have easily managed the situation in a much better situation and defused the circumstance, but you didn’t which showed now professionality or proof of the police protecting or serving .

But as anything, there are two sides of a story, and would like to hear you account of this grave situation.