4 Quotes by Darnell Couthen

Our primary goal was to prevent it (the protest). If we couldn't do that, the next job was to at least make sure it was peaceful.

We can understand their (parents') concern. But based on what we were dealing with, school was the safest place they could have been.

Is it a regular thing for us? No, it's not. But it's something we have to deal with.

The officer first attempted to verbally stop the fight and then tried to physically separate them. The officer was physically struck. To ensure the combatants' safety as well as his own safety, the officer used the means necessary.