South Carolina Student

Recently in South Carolina there was a student using her phone in class and would not stop. She was asked repeatedly by the teacher, the principal and the resource officer to stop the disruption in class, but she would not comply. The Officer in question then took it upon himself to drag her out of the her chair and handcuff her. This may seem all well and good and that everything was under control, but when you see the video of what actually happened, it will shock you.
The student was causing a huge disruption in class once she refused to put her phone away and made the teacher have to stop teaching to handle the situation. Once the principal was called in and told the student to stop, and the action still continued, they called in the officer to remove her from the classroom. The student in question had multiple opportunities to fix the situation and it did not have to come to the fact that an officer was involved or even a principal.
I completely agreed that the student was in the wrong and they had to get her out of the classroom to continue with class, but that does not excuse the lengths to which the officer had to go through to get her out of her chair. There are protocols that officers have to follow. There were other ways to diffuse the situation that did not involve and student being flipped upside down and dragged across the floor, all because of a cell phone being used.
Both the officer and the student are at fault for what occurred in South Carolina that day, but lets talk about the fact of why we are hearing about this story all across the country. Over the past year at least, there have been incidents involving African Americans and the police. Because of the fact that all of the events happened within a close time span, the media has been having a field day running with all of the race motivated stories going on around the country. To be blunt, the only reason I am hearing about this story is because a white cop assaulted a black girl. I am not making any excuses for what happened, but I will say that if this happened to a white guy, it would not have gone as public, or public at all. Not only is this a race issue, but it is also a sex issue. The fact that a man assaulted a woman is partially why the media was attracted to this story as well.
I completely agree that this is an outrageous situation and both are at fault, but I have to be realistic about this situation and say that there is no doubt that this is so widely known because of the fact that there is a race issue. I am not saying that the cop was racially motivated at the time, but I am saying that this issue has been blown way out of the water. It should not have this much media attention and the fact that the FBI are now involved in completely insane to me.
So, basically...I understand both sides and I can see how both sides are wrong, but the cop is more wrong because there were other ways that he could've handled the situation.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sheriff-says-third-video-shows-south-carolina-student-punching-officer-n452481