10-27-2015, 12:35 PM
Bullshit or Appropriate?
The footage taken by a student shows the moment school resource officer, Deputy Ben Fields, grabs a female student at Spring Valley High in Columbia, South Carolina by the throat with one hand and uses the other to flip over her chair, with the girl still seated in it. Then he drags her to the front of the class and pins her down.
The female student had taken out a phone in class and was ordered to turn it over to her teacher. She refused, according to student witnesses. She told the teacher that she only took it out for a minute and pleaded to stay when an administrator was called in.
The resource officer was then called in and told her that he was putting her under arrest for disturbing the class and ordered her to give him her hands. She refused and told him she hadn't done anything wrong and didn't know who he was, that's when the deputy forced her out of the chair.
In 2013, Fields had been sued (unsuccessfully) for excessive force and was also named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit that claimed he 'unfairly and recklessly targets Africa-American students with allegations of gang membership and criminal gang activity.'
So now, a group of black parents have ordered an investigation and the Sheriff has requested an FBI and Justice Department investigation.
Story and witness interview: http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/201.../74645568/
The footage taken by a student shows the moment school resource officer, Deputy Ben Fields, grabs a female student at Spring Valley High in Columbia, South Carolina by the throat with one hand and uses the other to flip over her chair, with the girl still seated in it. Then he drags her to the front of the class and pins her down.
The female student had taken out a phone in class and was ordered to turn it over to her teacher. She refused, according to student witnesses. She told the teacher that she only took it out for a minute and pleaded to stay when an administrator was called in.
The resource officer was then called in and told her that he was putting her under arrest for disturbing the class and ordered her to give him her hands. She refused and told him she hadn't done anything wrong and didn't know who he was, that's when the deputy forced her out of the chair.
In 2013, Fields had been sued (unsuccessfully) for excessive force and was also named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit that claimed he 'unfairly and recklessly targets Africa-American students with allegations of gang membership and criminal gang activity.'
So now, a group of black parents have ordered an investigation and the Sheriff has requested an FBI and Justice Department investigation.
Story and witness interview: http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/201.../74645568/