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November 1, 2016 — The bikini-clad teen is thrown to the ground. An officer, his knee in her back, grabs her braids and slams her head into the grass. She cries, “Call my mama.” When other teens, leaving a pool party, rush to her defense, the officer stands and lunges into the crowd, gun in hand. It is June 2015 in McKinney, Texas. Four months later, in Columbia, South Carolina, a teacher requests an officer’s assistance with a disobedient teen girl. The student has refused to leave class and go to the principal’s office, as the teacher demands. The officer grabs the quiet but noncompliant girl by her neck, overturns the chair in which she is seated, throws her on the floor, and handcuffs her. Most of the other students sit, quietly, heads bent down.

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