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FOLLOW-UP: Former Deputy Paul Schene Says He Beat Teenage Girl Because He Was Afraid of Her

By Caleb Hannan in Crime & Punishment
Wednesday, Jan. 20 2010 @ 10:12AM

Video: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/01/former_deputy_paul_schene_says.php

It's long past time for Paul Schene to man up. The King County Sheriff's Deputy who lost his job after beating 15-year-old Malika Calhoun in a SeaTac holding cell first said he'd attacked the girl because she injured his shin kicking off her shoe. Then, when video was released showing him accidentally kicking the cell's metal toilet, and thus injuring himself, he wisely shut up. Until yesterday.

That's when he testified for the first time about his version of the events that were caught on tape in November of 2008.

As The Seattle Times reports, Schene defended his actions as appropriate because he said Calhoun had made an "angry face" at him, kicked her shoe deliberately at his groin and because he was "afraid of being injured by her." Schene also said he followed police academy protocol when he kicked Calhoun, grabbed her by the hair, threw her to the ground and punched her multiple times while she was cuffed.

It's unknown what effect Schene's testimony had on jurors. But as a representative of everyone in the world with working retinas, I can say the only effect it had on me was to feel pity for the man who lives his life in fear of teenage girls throwing tantrums.