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I guarantee that no one else in the class cared that the girl was using her phone to text. It's against the rules and the teacher had a problem with her doing it. The solution would be to make it clear again to everyone else in the class that cell phones are not to be out and being used during class so don't get any ideas that you too can be disrespectful as the one student was being. And then make known to her and the rest of the class that you will deal with it after the class. And EVERYBODY would have known exactly what that meant.

Part of teaching is not getting in the way of the teaching. You try and de-escalate, not escalate.

 

Deputy Fields, who is described by many as ‘The Hulk’, due to his muscular appearance, apparently uses that to intimidate students who do not listen. (In the picture to the left, Deputy Fields is shown bench pressing an estimated 600 pounds). Richland Two Black Parents Association founder, Stephen Gilchrist, said that students have long claimed abuse and intimidation by Deputy Fields, but until now, they had no video evidence to back up those claims.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott released a statement saying,

I have spoken with the FBI and U.S. Attorney William Nettles today as I travel back from Chicago. Their investigation has begun. I have also consulted with Solicitor Dan Johnson and he agrees that the criminal investigation will be best served with the FBI as the lead agency. We do not want any issues with the community or those involved having questions concerning conflicts of interest in this investigation. SLED has been requested by the school board of Richland 2 and individual legislators to also look into the matter. Solicitor Johnson and I have no issues with SLED assisting the FBI and U.S. Attorney. A complete and thorough investigation is what we both want, as well as the public.

http://www.copblock.org/145145/new-...student-has-long-history-of-racism-and-abuse/





The students call Deputy Fields "officer slam".

 

And if she hits or kicks you while sliding her desk? Or falls out of the desk and screams assault.

So you disrupt everyone's education for however long it takes for a parent to get there?

How do you get her phone if she resists?

 

So you have no solution.

 

She was TEXTING. The teacher had a problem with that. Not the students. He could have kept on teaching AS HE DID.

You're a white female. Your interaction with and perception of police officers is completely different than her's, as a black female and a student at the school who no doubt knew about Officer "Slam", the nickname given to him by students because of prior incidents.

Somewhere along the way, somebody has convinced some of you that police officers have a license to do this stuff just because you don't do what they say. They do not. If he was arresting her, he should have said so.

That's right. Let's blame the girl who was slammed and thrown across the room for the officer's actions. Typical.

Oh so now the chair just "fell" over? Why don't you just say she knocked the chair over flipped herself backwards and then threw herself across the floor?Rolleyes

Oh so NOW he was trying to protect er and the other students by grabbing her by the neck, slamming her on the floor and then slinging her across the floor. Well lands sake. He needs to pay whomever he has to to get you as a juror.

Then you're blind in one eye and can't see out the other.

Your vision is CLEARLY impaired.Cool

Please let me know the next time you attempt this so that I can send someone to videotape you slamming a toddler onto the floor and slinging him across the floor. I'm sure they'll make sure you never see that baby again.

Not being compliant doesn't place you under arrest.

 

You obviously have as hard a time reading as ann has seeing.

 

I'm sure "officer slam" would have no problem arresting this girl's parents for doing the same thing to her.

 

According to the news reports I'm seeing, the Sheriff has fired the officer.

Sheriff: School officer fired after tossing student in class

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not follow proper procedures and training.

Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields was told of his firing late Wednesday morning, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. Fields had been a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School.

The student was being disruptive and refused to leave the classroom despite being told by a teacher and administrator to do so, Lott said, and that's when Fields was brought in Monday to remove her from the class. She again refused, and Fields told her she was under arrest, Lott said.

She continued to refuse, and at that point the video shows the deputy flipping the teen backward and then throwing her across the room. At that point, Lott said, Fields did not use proper procedure.

"I can tell you what he should not have done: He should not have thrown that student," Lott said during a news conference.

The agency's training unit looked at video of the incident and determined Fields did not follow proper training and procedure, the sheriff said.



Sheriff: 'I Want to Throw Up' Watching Vid … Play video

Calls for Fields to be fired began mounting almost immediately after the video surfaced, and the FBI began a civil rights investigation at Lott's request. The confrontation was captured on cellphones by students, one of whom said it all started when the girl pulled out her cellphone and refused her math teacher's attempt to take it away during class.

"She now has a cast on her arm, she has neck and back injuries. She has a Band-Aid on her forehead where she suffered rug burn on her forehead," Columbia attorney Todd Rutherford, who is representing the teen, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.

Lott had said Tuesday that the girl was uninjured in the confrontation but "may have had a rug burn."

The sheriff suspended Fields without pay Monday. Lott, who rushed home from an out of town conference when the news broke, said that a teacher and vice principal in the classroom at the time felt the officer acted appropriately.

Email, phone and text messages for Fields have not been returned.



NAACP: 'Race is a Factor' in SC Student Ar … Play video

More than a dozen parents and community members spoke out at a Tuesday night meeting of the Richland 2 School District. Some, black and white alike, said the issue wasn't based on race, and, while the officer may have used unnecessary force, the whole incident shows that teachers and administrators need to work harder on finding ways to handle defiant students.

Craig Conwell was angry, imploring board members to take action and saying Fields should have been fired immediately.

"If that was my daughter ... that officer being fired would be the least of his worries," Conwell said. "We are sick and tired of black women being abused. You can say it's not racist all you want to."

The deputy also arrested a second girl who verbally objected to his actions. Both girls were charged with disturbing schools and released to their parents. Their names were not officially released.

The second student, Niya Kenny, told WLTX-TV that she felt she had to say something. Doris Kenny said she's proud her daughter was "brave enough to speak out against what was going on."

 

And if she puts her feet down and refuses to let you slide the desk?

And if the parents don't show before class is over? She stays in class and simply doesn't have to do what you say? The kids will be laughing at your lack of authority and more of them will test you.

So you would actually use force? Can you predict how that would turn out? You're going to depend on other students to video for you? What if they refuse?

 

Ain't that the truth? And then they have the gall to arrest the girl who took the video if I'm reading correctly.

 

South Carolina Deputy Ben Fields Fired After Desk-Flipping Incident: Sheriff

The school resource officer who was caught on camera violently flipping a South Carolina high school student at her desk has been fired, authorities announced Wednesday.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said an internal investigation over the Monday incident at Spring Valley High School in Columbia focused on whether Senior Deputy Ben Fields had violated the department's policies.

He said at a news conference that the department looked at cellphone videos taken from the classroom and interviews with witnesses, and concluded that the maneuvers he used in the confrontation were "not acceptable."

From the very beginning that's what's caused me to be upset, and (which) continued to upset me is that he picked the student up and threw the student across the room," Lott said.

"Deputy Ben Fields did wrong this past Monday," he added.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...na-deputy-ben-fields-be-fired-sources-n452881