Monday, January 22, 2018

By City News Service, Matthew Bowler, Megan Burks

A La Mesa police officer will no longer patrol schools after cell phone video captured him slamming a 17-year-old girl to the ground at Helix Charter High School Friday.

The officer is not being disciplined as the department investigates his use of force, said Lt. Chad Bell, a spokesman for the La Mesa Police Department. Instead, he has been transferred to the investigations division.

The video sparked outrage after Aeiramique Blake, a community organizer, posted it on social media and promised to “completely (shut) down my sister’s school, Helix High.”

Read the full article here: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/jan/22/la-mesa-police-officer-shown-slamming-teenage-girl/