A video of a sobbing Black student named Leilla Hamoud being arrested and handcuffed after an argument with a professor who told her to rewrite an essay has gotten people on the internet talking and trashing the cops.
Does arguing with a professor warrant an arrest?
The Daily Mail got the details;
This is the moment a black student is handcuffed and arrested in class at a black college after an argument with a professor about an essay.
The footage shows Leilla Hamoud, 20, being arrested at Winston-Salem State University following the fallout with her lecturer Cynthia Villagomez.
Hamoud sobbed and complained the cops were hurting her as they forced her arms behind her back over what she says was a dispute about her final paper.
She is now facing misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges and is due back in court on January 25, according to WXII reporter Louie Tran.
But many of the four million people who have watched the clip are questioning whether it was actually necessary for staff at the North Carolina black college to call for law enforcement, with some claiming it was racially motivated.
The viral TikTok begins with two officers — one of whom is white, while the other is black — forcing Hamoud onto a desk while they handcuff her behind her back.
The sobbing 20-year-old could be heard telling the cops ‘You’re hurting me real bad’ as her professor denies she called the local police force on the student.
‘I was trying to de-escalate,’ Villagomez, the co-chair of the school’s political science, history and social justice department.
But Hamoud tells the professor: ‘I hate you. I swear to God I hate you, I swear to God I hate you, you’re the worst teacher ever.
‘You get me taken out in handcuffs because I won’t apologize?’ ‘You started yelling at me, you tried to embarrass me about my paper. You’re a terrible teacher.
‘She’s sitting here and saying she love black people and stuff,’ Hamoud continues through tears. ‘You yelled at me first.’
The class then echoes that sentiment, apparently trying to stand up for Hamoud as she is taken out of the classroom.
Still, Villagomez could be heard saying: ‘I was trying to apologize.’
It remains unclear what led up to the arrest, but university spokeswoman Haley Gingles insisted the arrest was a last resort, and came at least 10 minutes after the dispute began.
‘From the time the initial disturbance started until the and when the video clip started, it was a significant amount of time,’ she told NBC News. ‘Certainly, it was more than 10 minutes.’
She also said Villagomez was not the person who called 911 on Hamoud, claiming it actually came from another professor nearby who heard the argument.
University Chancellor Elwood Robinson also said in a statement that the ‘significant commotion’ prompted another ‘WSSU employee nearby’ to call campus police to ‘de-escalate the situation.
‘We strive for a safe, inclusive, thriving and intellectual community where all our faculty, staff and students feel respected and supported.
‘To that end, we will take swift and appropriate measures against any situation that contradicts those ideals.’
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