Black American student handcuffed, arrested in class after spat with professor

A black college student has been thrown out of her classroom in handcuffs by the police after an argument with a professor in North Carolina at a historically Black institution.

The incident in a classroom at Winston-Salem State University happened after a dispute between the student, Leilla Hamoud, and her professor Cynthia Villagomez. A faculty member, who was not involved in the incident, called the authorities.

Another student recorded the arrest in a video and posted on TikTok that got viral.

It shows two officers restraining Hamoud as they arrest her. While the officers holds her down, she pleads with them. “I’m not resisting; ya’ll hurting me really bad bro. Please get off of me.”

Villagomez makes several comments, but it’s unclear what she’s saying.

The TikTok post did not capture the argument that preceded the arrest. Some said the incident is another example of police being called on black people for seemingly nonthreatening activity, something that has been gaining national scrutiny in recent years.

Hamoud is facing a misdemeanor charge for disorderly conduct. She has a Jan. 25 court appearance.

In a now-deleted video on her Instagram account, she explained what happened.

“We had a group project assigned as a final” which took her more than two weeks to complete, but six hours before her group was to make the class presentation, her professor informed her that the essay was wrong and that she needed to revise it.

The student says she declined to rewrite the essay at that late hour and insisted on going through with the presentation. This is what led to the disagreement in the classroom.

In a press statement, the university chancellor said the school is looking into the incident. However, she defended the response, claiming that the police involvement was strictly used in accordance with campus policy.

“In any classroom power struggle or dispute, there is not a single scenario in which a law enforcement officer should be called into a classroom,” said Erika Strauss Chavarria, an organizer of Black Lives Matter at Schools.  

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US police violence against people of color and systematic racial discrimination have been rising in recent years.

Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s deputy permanent representative to the US said, “In light of the fact that the US, EU, UK, Canada and some other countries continue to forge the reality, I would like to draw your attention to the systematic racial discrimination in these countries that impact a significant number of people, including women and girls of African American, Muslims, indigenous, be in workplace, courts, media, digital platforms or in their everyday life.”

She made the remarks after the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) last week adopted a US-drafted resolution to “remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term.”

In recent months, the US and its European allies have imposed a wide array of sanctions on Iranian officials and entities on the flimsy pretext of “human rights violations”, while women in the Western countries widely face misogyny, inequality, discrimination, violence, and murder.

The epidemic of police violence in the US has assumed alarming proportions over the years.

Last year, 56 women, including pregnant woman, were murdered by the US police. Most of them were women of color or those from indigenous communities. As of November 30, the US police had shot dead 42 women this year, according to Statista Research Department.

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