Officer fired for violating policy in South Carolina classroom arrest

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - The white sheriff's deputy caught on video flipping a black high school student out of her classroom chair in Columbia, South Carolina, has been fired, a sheriff said on Wednesday.
Deputy Ben Fields violated agency policy when he picked up the teenage girl and threw her across a classroom as he attempted to make an arrest, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told a news conference.
"That is not a proper technique and should not be used by law enforcement," Lott said.
Videos filmed by students showed Fields, 34, slam a 16-year-old girl to the ground and drag her across a classroom at Spring Valley High School on Monday after she apparently refused to hand her mobile phone to a teacher or leave the room.
The student, who Lott said hit the officer during the altercation, was arrested on a charge of disturbing schools.
"She was very disruptive, she was very disrespectful and she started this whole incident with her actions," the sheriff said.
Lott said the student was not hurt. But the girl's lawyer told ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday that she suffered injuries after being "brutally attacked."
"She now has a cast on her arm, she has neck and back injuries," lawyer Todd Rutherford said. "She has a Band-Aid on her forehead where she suffered rug burn."
The deputy has not been criminally charged. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department opened a civil rights probe into the arrest, which prompted a hashtag #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh and widespread outrage on social media and in Columbia after the video footage went viral.
The sheriff said a teacher and administrator who witnessed the encounter felt the officer had acted appropriately.
"They had no problems with the physical part," Lott said. "I’m the one who had a problem with it."
Fields, who has not commented on the incident, had worked for the sheriff's office since 2004 and joined its school resource officer program in 2008. An elementary school where he is also assigned presented him with a "Culture of Excellence Award" last year.
(Additional reporting and writing by Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Editing by James Dalgleish)


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[Ponce]

But remember.........DON'T SHOOT COPS.......they are here to "protect" us.......tune tomorrow for another joke.

V

[madfranks]

Sometimes animals cannot be reasoned with, they only understand force. When my dog refuses to go into his kennel when I tell him to, I don't reason with him, I make him go in. The video made public doesn't show any of the context of preceding events, but the story goes that this black girl was being disruptive and belligerent in class. When reason didn't work, force was employed.

[singular_me]

madfranks, you do not realize that if we/you tolerate this, the same will be done to YOU/US... same with black slaves, now we are ALL slaves.

Treat other humans like animals/dogs and you/we are next. Natural Law of Correspondence. You (people) have no idea of the Forces that are at play in this Universe.

what that she was doing? Indeed that is HIGHLY disruptive.
Arrest of girl who texted in class prompts civil rights case Associated Press
LOL... whatever the race, anybody agreeing with the cop, just call for fema camps enforcement. (disrupting and belligerence can be stretched as one does see fit, this is fascism)

same reasoning.

In this particular case, the body language speaks by itself, she was NOT threatening.

ps: if the other side was more reported, I would stand by the white victims of abuse too

[madfranks]

Singular, you make a good point, but I can't form a real opinion without knowing the full context. Knowing what I know about blacks and black culture, I find it likely that the officer's behavior was prompted by recalcitrance on the girl's part.

[vacuum]

He should have probably called another officer in and removed her forcefully but less violently.

If there is no safety issue or serious crime taking place, then violently taking someone down really isn't called for. Especially since this was a minor in this case.

[midnight rambler]

Y'all do know why they're called 'school resource officers', right?

[Hitch]

madfranks, you do not realize that if we/you tolerate this, the same will be done to YOU/US... same with black slaves, now we are ALL slaves.

To piggyback on this thought, when confronting racial issues, one thing to consider is to flip it around.

Watch the video of this incident again. Imagine a black cop doing this to a white girl in a classroom full of white students. Do you feel any different about this situation?

It's important to remove race from the equation completely. Then, you will see the truth.

[Jewboo]

Class chimpouts will now be tolerated as a matter of policy.

[midnight rambler]

The reason they're called 'school resource officers' is because they're there to secure the resources of the school, especially the human resources, and of course the term 'resource' = property.

[Shami-Amourae]

Class chimpouts will now be tolerated as a matter of policy.

http://www.resist.com/CARTOON%20GALLERY/NIGGERS/nig_image75.jpg

[madfranks]

To piggyback on this thought, when confronting racial issues, one thing to consider is to flip it around.

Watch the video of this incident again. Imagine a black cop doing this to a white girl in a classroom full of white students. Do you feel any different about this situation?

It's important to remove race from the equation completely. Then, you will see the truth.

In general, young white girls don't act that way. In general, young black people do.

[Hitch]

In general, young white girls don't act that way. In general, young black people do.

"In general" That's the problem. As soon as you apply In General, you take away freedoms with assumptions.

Today, "in general" if you say you are proud to be white, you are labelled a terrorist. Ask the SPLC.

To see past agendas, racial or not, you absolutely HAVE to remove the In General automatic assumptions that get programmed by all the mass agendas. Don't assume the truth. See the truth.

[Horn]

I heard on CNN that the teachers who called him over approved of his methods.

Shouldn't they be fired also?

[BrewTech]

Class chimpouts will now be tolerated as a matter of policy.

"Class chimpouts" are a relatively new disease. Treating the symptoms with state sanctioned violence is not curing the disease, only treating the symptoms. As big pharma has shown us, treating the symptoms is much more profitable than curing the disease.

[BrewTech]

The reason they're called 'school resource officers' is because they're there to secure the resources of the school, especially the human resources, and of course the term 'resource' = property.


Same as HR departments in any corporate environment.

[madfranks]

"In general" That's the problem. As soon as you apply In General, you take away freedoms with assumptions.

Today, "in general" if you say you are proud to be white, you are labelled a terrorist. Ask the SPLC.

To see past agendas, racial or not, you absolutely HAVE to remove the In General automatic assumptions that get programmed by all the mass agendas. Don't assume the truth. See the truth.

I still disagree. "Whether we like it or not, easily observed physical characteristics — such as race, sex, height and age — convey information. That’s because there is often a correlation between those characteristics and other characteristics not so easily observed. Say that you’re a police commander faced with the task of finding vandals responsible for slashing car tires and smashing windows. How much of the city’s resources would you expend investigating 60- to 70-year-old Chinese men? You probably wouldn’t spend resources on any men in that age group. So who is responsible for your decision not to investigate 60- to 70-year-old Chinese men and other men of the same age? If you said it’s the behavioral reputation of that demographic as a group, you’d be absolutely right."

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/walter-e-williams/black-guy-hoodie-scares-people/

[govcheetos]

The reason they're called 'school resource officers' is because they're there to secure the resources of the school, especially the human resources, and of course the term 'resource' = property.

Interesting, I thought maybe they were resourceful in their handling of situations presented by the office.

:p

[cheka.]

http://www.texaspolicenews.com/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=News+1-2&newsletterid=57063&menugroup=Home

Close to a hundred students rallied in support of the officer who was fired for slamming a girl who refused to leave her desk. The girl was asked by an administrator and teacher to leave the room after disrupting the class. VPC

About 100 students at a South Carolina high school walked out of class briefly Friday to show support for a school resource officer fired after video showed him throwing an uncooperative black female student across the floor, according to local media and Twitter feeds.

The students walked out of classes at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., around 10 a.m. and gathered in the atrium to express their views on the firing of Deputy Ben Fields.

Some in the crowd — which included both black and white students — wore T-shirts reading "Free Fields" or "#BringBackFields."