Pushed out

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Black girls are being pushed out of school and into jails at alarming rates, but this issue often is overlooked because youth incarceration reform focuses so much on boys. Reporter Ko Bragg explains how the cycle begins and what researchers hope will break it.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is revealed.
0:09.0	I'm Al Ensen.
0:10.5	A few weeks ago, this disturbing video started making the rounds online.
0:14.8	OK, I've had enough of this.
0:17.5	Take your bag off.
0:18.5	Take your bag off.
0:19.5	You're done.
0:20.5	In it, a white school police officer in New Mexico spends nearly five minutes violently
0:26.6	taking down and subduing an 11-year-old black girl.
0:30.4	Put your door behind your back.
0:33.4	The six-graders alleged crimes, standing up on the bus, taking an extra milk from the cafeteria,
0:38.9	and brushing past their principal in a doorway, which the officer characterized as an assault.
0:46.4	Officer Zachary Christianson was placed on administrative leave and eventually resigned.
0:50.9	The girls' family has initiated legal action.
0:57.1	A lot of times when we hear about the school to prison pipeline, it has to do with boys.
1:01.8	But the number of girls getting caught up in the system has been growing for the last
1:05.3	few decades, and black girls receive suspensions at six times the rate of white girls.
1:11.0	Reporter Kobrag has been digging into this and joins me now.
1:14.5	Hey, Ko.
1:15.5	Hey, Al.
1:16.5	So tell me more about what you found.
1:17.8	So the research shows that adults, like teachers, school resource officers, we increasingly
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