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[b]Why do you assume the girl is Hispanic?[/b]  The OP said her daughter was a minority, but did not specify which one.  Surely other minorities might take a Spanish class.  For that matter, we don't know that the officer was white.  Although with the OP's declaration of her daughter's minority status, that seems a more logical conclusion to draw.

As for the daughter's instincts, they seem to be telling her it's no big deal.  It seems that by the mother escalating this, she's overriding the child's instincts.

From the original description, I don't see anything "racial" in the interaction.  He was speaking Spanish to a student in a Spanish class.  If he'd spoken Spanish to a Hispanic girl in a French class, then that would be more suspect.

I certainly don't see "flirting".  "Hands up" is neither sexual nor romantic.  Other than it being a male talking to a female,  I can't imagine what sparked that allegation.  [b]If a police officer was going to do something as inappropriate as flirt with a high school student, do you really thing he'd do it in front of a teacher and a classroom of kids?[/b][/quote]

Why do you assume that people can accurately tell, by appearance, who's Hispanic?

Also, people do imprudent things all the time.

In any case, this isn't a question of some random person speaking some random phrase in Spanish to a student in a Spanish class. If the school resource officer did intend mean to make a joke by saying "Hands up" (in any language) to a student, then somebody needs to tell the school resource officer that this is not an appropriate joke. If a police officer said "Hands up" to you, while you were walking by minding your own business, would you think "Ha, ha, what a kidder"?[/quote]

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