An off-duty police officer knelt on a 12-year-old girl’s neck while restraining her after a lunchtime fight at a school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, surveillance footage released by the school district shows.
Kenosha Unified School District released redacted footage Friday that shows Shawn Guetschow trying to break up a March 4 fight, before he tussles with the child and kneels on her neck for about a minute and a half.
The clip shows two students, one in black and the other in gray, shoving each other at the lunchroom of Lincoln Middle School, before Guetschow and another staffer sprint over and pull the students apart while they trade blows.
Geutshow, a Kenosha officer who worked as a security officer at the school, then pulls the girl in the white down, pushes her head against the floor and holds his knee on her neck before he handcuffs her and walks her out of the cafeteria, video shows.
Jerrel Perez, the girl’s father, has called for criminal charges against Guetschow for using the neck restraint that was banned for Wisconsin law enforcement officers last year.
Perez said his distraught daughter is in therapy and is seeing a neurologist for her injuries.
Guetschow, 37, was initially placed on administrative leave by the district before he resigned from the part-time gig with the school on Tuesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
In his resignation letter, the cop called out the district for lack of support and said the incident has placed a heavy burden on his family.
“Given the events that have taken place and the escalated attention this incident at Lincoln Middle School has caused in the community, mental and emotional strain it has brought upon my family, and the lack of communication and or support I have received from the district, I can no longer continue my employment with the Kenosha Unified School District,” Guetschow wrote to Kenosha Superintendent Beth Ormseth, according to the paper.
The district said it will not be releasing any more details about the incident at this time.
Kenosha Police Department said Guetschow is still employed by the force.
“We continue our investigation, paying careful attention to the entire scope of the incident,” the department said in a statement. “We have no further update at this time.”
The officer could have probably handled this in a more dignified manor, but the girl was out of hand and it’s even seen in the footage. She not only initiated the fight with the other student, she also lashed out at the officer when he was trying to stop her. You could see her fists making contact with his arms and chest.
What is it with these inherently violent minority children? Most likely a behavior taught to them by witnessing their parents or families display similar violent tendencies throughout their life. Also, nobody is buying the lies and drama by the instigator’s father when he claims the violent brat needs therapy (anger management maybe) and a neurologist for her “injuries’ which never occurred from the officer. Why did they hire an off-duty cop if they didn’t want him to do his job? Notice the school provided only “redacted” footage, just like the Left always does and did with the drug-addled, counterfeiter, George Floyd because when the entire videos were shown it changed the entire narrative in the officer’s favor. The girl needs to be placed in Juvey Hall and denied admittance to the school going forward since nothing would have occurred if she hadn’t started the fight! Time for thugs to take responsibility for their actions and for fools to stop blaming heroes attempting to neutralize the violence and crimes.
Why do cops feel the need to kneel on anyone’s neck??
Because it’s standard submission training across, oh IDK, the whole fucking world?
You’re ignorant. Get out and learn something.
Jerrel Perez, the girl’s father, has called for criminal charges against Guetschow for using the neck restraint that was banned for Wisconsin law enforcement officers last year.
Say what you want about the “Right or the “Left”, but an unlawful neck restraint used on a 12-year-old female is criminal. I wouldn’t be trying to politically argue this case by mentioning George Floyd if I were you. We uphold the police, but we uphold the law before we uphold a dirty police officer. I do not care where you stand politically- a democratic socialist or communist of an American Patriot, no one is above the law, especially law enforcement.
It was made “unlawful” for left wing political reasons, based on a false propaganda. The neck restraint is perfectly safe for anyone who isn’t having a heart attack and as such, is taught to police over the entire freaking planet. The only argument against this cop so far is that she was 12 and female, and he should have been able to restrain her without any submission holds.
Steve, Just because this involved a 12 year old female doesn’t mean that she is a weak, feminine, or even petite female (far from your average child and in a different category than a child). Usually when a female starts a fight she is already animal like in her behavior and should be treated as such. Had she been a respectful female and stopped her fighting after being pulled off the other girl and obeyed the instructions of the Police Officer without striking him more than once, she would have undoubtedly been treated with respect. She acted like an animal and she was treated like one (just because a boy or girl are juveniles doesn’t mean they can not kill someone in their fit of RAGE). The neck restraint should never have been banned, what it does is alloys a single individual to gain control of a situation until help arrives while minimizing injuries from the out of control ANIMAL they are attempting to restrain. More times than not, the Police Officer is smaller to much smaller (and more domesticated than the wild like out of control animal behaviors that this 12 year old acted out) than the individual they are tasked with restraining. This so called child / animal will probably be in jail before reaching adulthood. Not all situations can be categorized into a simple law, some situations are extreme and when extreme situations come into play there should be exceptions for the laws that apply to these extremists like this 12 year old female! She is a “domestic terrorist”! Definition : “Domestic terrorism” : Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature. Steve, there are no age or gender restrictions to this definition. Is a Police Officer suppose to give up and die in the hands of these extremists, or risk using illegal practices to save him or herself from death?
Simple FACT if the individual had simply walked away instead of engaging in a fight this WOULD NOT HAVE happened. If the school did not want to protect our kids from these violence thugs then the school should not have hired the police.
Someone thinks the violence has gotten bad enough to have a police presence at that school. That’s not done without reason.
Everyone is against this officer. Have you ever tried to get two females apart when they are fighting? They will pinch you, slap you, pull your hair or anything else that pops into their minds. They are almost uncontrollable.
If these girls had behaved in a decent manner, this officer would have never touched her. Only when an altercation is in process can a teacher or officer touch a student.
Try teaching high school in these days. These students are horrible in their demeanor and behavior. You know who should be blamed? Their parents! Plain and simple.
My Dad would have busted my sitting spot if I had dared to have a fight at school. He would have grounded me and took away every single privilege I have ever hoped to have.
Teachers are trying their best to teach these undisciplined, destructive and belligerent students. Parents should back them up. Discipline starts at home and not at school.
All you see is the video you weren’t there so how can you say by watching the video all of these assumptions that the girl in white started the fight and hit the police officer something that is banned from a police force with knee in the neck and tased didn’t traumatize this young girl and why aren’t you saying anything about the other girls misconduct both where in the wrong both should be dealt with in the same exact manner why are you picking out one over the other it shows that George Floyd died in vain again again and again and I’m sure many of the people who had to watch him do it even though it’s banned in Kenosha with kneeling on another person’s neck I’m sure it brings back all types of feelings especially knowing what George Floyd went through she probably does need a neurologist didn’t you see the way he manhandled her.so why do you automatically think that the girl in white started the fight you were not there to hear what happened between the two maybe the girl in Black called her out and said some things you did not hear and why did both of them get up and start fighting the blame is on both of them not just one so you should retract your statement blaming the one child.in white .
who let that 12 out of her cage? that’s the guilty party here.
Act like ANIMALS‽‽ you put yourselves in this position!! Parents are not raising kids right!! Besides who took discipline away from the parents?? The very IDIOTS that let the kids run wild on the streets !! Their out of control Over Grown Bullies