UW-Milwaukee Student Arrest Video: Robyn Foster of UWM Arrested

Agreed. The officer went to escort her out and she started hitting his hands back. At that point he tried to restrain her hands and she fought even harder. A second officer came in to try and control her wild arms and she kept fighting. This is when an officer told her to get on the ground, which she did and claimed "I'm not even fighting". Though she may not have been aggressively fighting, she was passive aggressively resisting the officers. unsure of what she might do, the officers did their job and tried to contain her physical swings. After a couple seconds of her resisting, this is when they put her down and cuffed her. I work in an alternative school and know that when a student starts acting irrationally, its better safe than sorry.

She's a grown woman it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with her race...she was being disrespectful and rude... she paid for her classes ok what about the other students that were sitting in class that day? People need to think before they react...this is just ridiculous a shameful display Please DO NOT put this woman in the same boat, same level, same bracket as other "African Americans" She was not done any over reacted harm/force that was clearly shown on the tape...she shouldn't have jumped her big behind up in the officer's face this is what got her arrested.

She became disruptive to the class and deserved to be removed from it. Foley-Winkler: "You're disrupting and you're threatening students," Foley "No, I'm not! I threatened this ***** right here," the student says, pointing to a classmate. And she admits to threatening a student. Why are people defending her? I know small children who behave better than this. I don't care if she's black, white, a male or female...she deserved to get arrested.

She threw a bottle, was shouting profanities and disrupting a class.  The police had every right to ask her to leave and when she made a statement she wasn't leaving and started pushing the cops away, they had every right to take her down before things got worse.    Her fault.  She needs to grow up.   

The police had every right to take the actions they did. Maybe if they did this in the public schools a lot of behavior problems would be eliminated. It's not a race issue, it's a behavior issue. This 'woman' should be expelled from the university.

The police had every right to take the actions they did. Maybe if they did this in the public schools a lot of behavior problems would be eliminated. It's not a race issue, it's a behavior issue. This 'woman' should be expelled from the university.

She said "get your hands off of me I'm not even fighting" or something of the sort. You moron, they put their hands on you to cuff you for a reason. When she says "get the fuck out of my face" to a cop, she is obviously not going to go down without some sort of struggle. People blame cops way too often for DOING THEIR JOB. If I was a cop, I wouldn't take shit from some cocky ghetto black girl who thinks that she is above everyone everyone else and has more right because "she paid." This is why racism exists, because of black people who act like this.

Our Tax Dollars at Work - just another undeserving / ungrateful hostile minority making it difficult for others who are trying to learn. Its sad, and such a poor reflection for the others who really do deserve a chance.

Concerned Citizen: I am no fan of overzealous cops, but did the student not tell the cops that they would have to wrestle her ass to the ground (that isn't verbatim, but something akin to that).  Yeah, she wasn't resisting...right. 

are you daft?  When you say "you're going to have to drag my ass out of here" to a police officer, that's essentially what they've been waiting to hear all day.  On top of that, it's called resisting.  light a candle, call your representative, you'll still be a misinformed, bleeding-heart dolt at the end of the day.

The irrational behavior of this woman suggests that she might have an active mental disorder. If that's the case, then her condition should be a mitigating factor in how her case is handled.It's also possible that she was simply on drugs or merely never learned to behave in a civilized manner, in which case she needs to expelled from the university and face the criminal charge as well.

The young lady was clearly out of control.  When the instructor asked her to leave the classroom she should have left the classroom.  When the police asked her to leave the classroom she should have left.  When the police officer placed his hand on her upper arm and she jerked away and swatted at his hand she is lucky she was not tasered.  It always seems unfair when we are on the receiving end of a police encounter but the law is the law.  If she had done as she was asked we would never have heard of this incident.  Because the young lady choose to resist she was taken to the ground and arrested.If Ms. Foster ever looks back on this with a logical frame of mind she will see there is no one other than herself to blame for it becoming as out of control as it did.  Hopefully she will find the mental strength to let go of the emotional memory and see how irrationally she acted and how much she contributed to her arrest.And not to clear the school just yet.  Hopefully they will look at this with a rational eye and expel Ms. Foster.  It is clear that Ms. Foster cannot control her own behavior and would be an ongoing danger to the faculity and students at UWM if she is allowed to return to campus.

This is Obama's America. 

She's a disgrace and should be expelled. Of course they wrestled her down, what else were they suppose to do? If you act like a grown-up, and a civilized human being, than the police wouldn't have had to wrestle her down. They shouldn't have had to be there in the first place. She has no business in college. the university needs to get rid of her.

They should have tasered her.

And this is EXACTLY why I don't return exams until the end of the class.

To "enoughalready": This is not Obama's America, otherwise there wouldn't be so many ignorant opposers of every thing he tries to do FOR America.As for this student, I hold back from calling her an adult. As an African-American,  I am appalled at her conduct. I feel that she was wrong from the beginning, with her verbal tirade of disrespect towards her professor, her classmates, and the campus police officers, who I felt showed complete restraint. This video footage was 4 minutes, 55 seconds of her verbally "assaulting" others, and expecting no consequence for her ill-advised actions. I can only imagine the length of time this tirade was going on that prompted a fellow student to record this scene to begin with. The professor is the authority in the classroom. She (the professor), to her credit, maintained an even tempered voice the entire time, while this student self-accelerated, simply because she didn't get the response she thought was sufficient for her (the student).Our children need to be taught respect at home, for their elders, authority figures, and most of all, respect for themselves. Had any of these been instilled in this student, she would not be in this situation, let alone on video being hauled away by police, when she was asked to politely, many moments before.