The video below has caused a public outcry after a South Carolina school resource officer identified as Richland County Sheriff’s Department Senior Deputy Ben Fields is shown tossing a female high school student to the floor and dragging her from a classroom after she refused to get up and leave with him. Fields has been placed on paid administrative leave.
Fields, shown right from a Twitter photo, was reportedly called in because the student would not get off her cellphone or leave the class as instructed. The 15-second video shows Fields asking the student “Are You Coming With Me or am I Going to Make You? Come on. Iām going to get you up.ā What follows is the scuffle where the student ends up on the floor and being pulled by Fields. Fields is heard saying āIāll put you in jail next.ā
The site Heavy has reported that Fields in the subject of a lawsuit alleging violations of the civil rights of a student at Spring Valley High School. The student, Ashton James Reese, was expelled in 2013 from the high school for āunlawful assembly of gang activity and assault and battery” and was also accused of participating in a āgang relatedā fight in a Walmart parking lot near the school. In the lawsuit, he is accused of ārecklessly target[ing] African-American students with allegations of gang membership and criminal gang activity.ā
The Columbia mayor has denounced Fields and said “We cannot and will not accept this kind of behavior from any law enforcement officer and I firmly believe that we need an independent investigation to get to the bottom of this incident and see that justice is done.”
Given that this was all about cellphone use, is there any justification for this level of force in your view?
Darren:
Thanks. Buffering is one of the problems. But the other is my limit in overall bandwidth use. Videos eat up my bandwidth allowance rapidly, and then I have to pay for more.
When I first got this carrier, I thought I could watch an entire movie from home. I tried watching an hour long TV episode, and aside from the buffering you mentioned, it burned through my entire allowance before the end of the episode, and that was at the beginning of the month without any web surfing or anything. Even watching clips burns through it rapidly.
I made the mistake of trying DropBox once, and all of a sudden I was charged $10 every day, sometimes multiple times a day, before I realized it was because it was uploading and syncing all of my photo and video files.
There is no cable internet offered, and the phone lines are too old and far away from the source to support high speed internet, because I tried that too.
I envy those with unlimited internet access!
Po:
“Karen, my wishing you to be part of harem was just my feeling that your obsession with all things islamic was from an unspoken desire to be dominated by a dashing, rough and gentle at times Arabian prince.”
So, as a supposed defender of women’s rights, you are apparently doubling down on this? You do realize how this makes you look, don’t you? Would you say this to a man who talked about the plight of women in the Middle East? Or do you save sex used as a weapon for women? Didn’t you just claim that David justified the rape of women because he felt the girl behaved badly in this incident? And then you say something like that?
You lack introspection.
OK. I went to the library and used their wifi to watch the video. I watched the first part 10 times and I still cannot tell if the police officer tipped the desk over or if she tipped it over. It’s shaky and taken from across the room. I tried to pause it, and I still could not tell. She definitely threw herself back away from him, but was it enough to tip over???
As a parent, that’s what I would want to know.
So I stand by my original impression, which is we need a thorough investigation. We need to determine who threw the desk over. There are two separate issues. Did the police officer respond appropriately to a resisting, but not dangerous, student? And the second is how should schools properly address disruptive students who absolutely refuse to follow the rules. Whether the officer acted in the wrong or not, the girl does have serious behavior issues and clearly is not taking advantage of a free public education.
She wasted everyone’s time and interfered with the education of her fellow classmates.
We do need to determine if the officer reacted correctly, and how they deal with uncooperative but not dangerous people.
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” —– from Paul Newman movie, Cool Hand Luke.
The cop should get a job as bouncer in a strip bar in Vegas.
No cell phones in schools. But each kid has a camera.
I wonder how many kids will be home schooled as a result of this video.
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Its daughter and I’ll cry if I wanna… cry if I wanna!
You would cry too if it happened to You!
Today’s edition of The Onion features a study from the Dept. Of Education.
It was originally published on Nov.15, 2010. I think teachers and former teachers will enjoy it.
(Warning: “R Rated” language)
Inga – other than their names, your family is in the public domain. You have spent a lot of time holding them up as paragons of virtue and models for the rest of us to follow.
She got what she deserved. The uniform and badge are key. Who is she, more special than me [?], to resist and refuse, then holler “abuse” after she gets what she had coming? She caused it all. You are not free to disobey a uniformed officer, no matter how “special” you think you are. Thump. Thump. Another case of complaint before the action…a uniformed officer says “shut up, get up, and come with me”…that is what you do…if wronged, THEN you complain to appropriate authorities. This kid was acting out for her classmates, period. Anarchy is not a pretty world.
OF COURSE THEY DON’T EVER LET YOU SEE THE “BEFORE” THAT CAUSED THIS REACTION. I HEAR SHE WAS DISRUPTIVE, ABUSIVE AND REFUSED TO LEAVE THE CLASSROOM.
philly, Back in the 70’s I was a VISTA Volunteer right out of college and that helped erase some of my loans. Some of my fellow grads went the route of your sister and taught in the inner city, getting some loan forgiveness as well. Again, God bless your sister. I have the ultimate respect for her. I know what she dealt w/ on a daily basis.
Jeannie, In a perfect world a parent would be an asset and worth calling. If you knew the inner city you would realize good chance the core PROBLEM is the parent[s].
Darren, Good job helping folks w/ their problems. Too bad you were a pig!! I know, you know, that’s a joke.
What would Trump say about all of this? Cop manhandling a female kid.
I have read up on this cop. There have been other allegations made, and he has also received an award from one of the schools he works. What is one to believe? It’s a TOUGH job being a cop, and a tough job working in inner city schools. The lack of empathy, or knowledge about what goes on in inner city schools, by some here continues to amaze.
Inga, I have not said your name or engaged directly w/ you for I don’t know how long. Your family is not private if you put them out there CONSTANTLY. That’s a troubling assertion. This is a post about a cop YOU ASSERT IS TROUBLED. You assert you have a brother who has dealt w/ TROUBLED cops. I merely wondered why the brother, mentioned many times in the past, wasn’t logically mentioned in this thread. Two children were mentioned. It’s simply illogical. It doesn’t make sense. You have given no clarity to this, only tried to play victim and scream “privacy” over people YOU CONSTANTLY refer to. It is an emotional, illogical, and troubling response.
po
haha..rick, when will you have the self awareness of realizing that you are guilty exactly of what you accuse others (me) of?
I am unaware of many things which are not happening including both your fantasy above and the fantasy of a campus rape “epidemic”. In the real world this is considered normal.
Other things I am “unaware” of:
Trump winning the presidency.
The Soviets winning the cold War.
ISIS advancing civilization.