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. I’m going to get you up.” What follows is the scuffle where the student ends up on the floor and being pulled by Fields. Fields is heard saying “I’ll put you in jail next.”
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 “unlawful assembly of gang activity and assault and battery” and was also accused of participating in a “gang related” fight in a Walmart parking lot near the school. In the lawsuit, he is accused of “recklessly target[ing] African-American students with allegations of gang membership and criminal gang activity.”
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?
Spinelli,
BTW, I reveal as much personally identifying information as KCFleming.
I’m just as thoroughly wrong-headed and misinformed as he is.
That’s what bothers you about me.
KCF,
I raised by two youngest children without their father in the home. One is now an attorney, happily married and a mother of one and the other, my son, never got into any trouble, went to trade school after high school as is doing very well in his trade and adult life. Your assumption that children raised in a patriarchal system always turn out just fine is overly simplistic.
I guarantee that if Karen grabbed you or me by the earlobe, we’d be obeying her every command
Hall – if they have pierced ears, grabbing the earring and pulling is a commanding hold 😉
If you don’t want the police to solve the problem please don’t call them?
No matter what the officer did or did not do someone will be complaining about it.
The kid was asked to stop by the teacher and she did not comply. Maybe the next step is notify the principal? Some other step other then calling the police?
So now the police are involved. The student was asked several times to leave the room and she refused!
All she had to do is get up and leave but she decided no to comply. Guess if the officer had “nicely” removed her from the chair everyone would be happy? She was not choked or hit he pulled her out of the chair and put her under arrest. This is the problem in society today! NO RESPECT FOR ANY TYPE OF AUTHORITY! The kids at that school now know they can do what ever they want! I feel so sorry for any of the kids that want to learn something because the hooligans are running that place.
One last thing the fix is in to get the officer…. he has been sued! Oh my! If you are a police officer today you are going to be sued! But I guess that means he is a bad officer? He must be bad!! Society spiraling out of control!
““That’s supposed to be somebody that’s going to protect us. Not somebody that we need to be scare off, or afraid.””
He is protecting you, from her.
And BS. She wasn’t afraid of him at all.
Check Jack’s link. There is a photo of her fist on him. I have no idea, since I cannot watch the video angle, if her hand was gently resting on him or if she punched him. She is still a girl half his size so not a big threat. But it is also important to note that the photo shows her own leg kicking up against the bottom of the chair, and the officer’s hand was not on the desk at all.
This does not mean that the officer acted correctly. No one has any idea until there’s been an investigation. And any additional photos and videos are also crucial. I would also like to know what’s the proper procedure for physically moving teenagers who are not a physical threat, but who are violently resisting nonetheless.
Perhaps cops cannot be used to do discipline at the schools, if they’re just going to lose their jobs over it.
“Why is it so many people on the left know so many things that just aren’t so?”
Actually, most of them are actually lying, not ignorant.
Remember, SJWs always lie.
“I would have yanked her out by her earlobe.”
Hilarious.
She was kicking and hitting the cop.
She weighs 130 lbs, easy.
You think she would have not resisted a move that’s meant for first-graders?
The student who shot the video speaks out. A longer version of the video is included.
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/2015/10/26/spring-valley-high-school-incident/74645568/
“I’ve never seen anything so nasty looking, so sick to the point that you know, other students are turning away, don’t know what to do, and are just scared for their lives,” said Tony Robinson Jr., who made the recording “That’s supposed to be somebody that’s going to protect us. Not somebody that we need to be scare off, or afraid.”
“Even if your assumption that I didn’t expect blacks to behave were correct, that would not be racism.”
Of course it is.
po
1, October 27, 2015 at 12:18 pm
People like [David] are why women are raped in college in epidemic levels
In fact rape is much less prevalent on campus than it used to be, as it is everywhere else. Do people like David deserve the credit?
Why is it so many people on the left know so many things that just aren’t so?
Rick
1, October 27, 2015 at 12:36 pm
po
1, October 27, 2015 at 12:18 pm
People like [David] are why women are raped in college in epidemic levels
In fact rape is much less prevalent on campus than it used to be, as it is everywhere else. Do people like David deserve the credit?
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Rick, the “you” was directed to anyone who believes the assault was justified, David cannot hog all the credit.
Have you reread yourself? Rape on campus is much less prevalent…so now what? Does that undermine my point? Less prevalent compared to what, a high of a lot to a low of non-existent? Does it happen a lot yes or no?
Does it matter to your daughter that she is the only one raped on her campus?
And KCF, at least have the decency of being truthful. We all watched the tape, the girl would not have had the chance to kick and hit the cop, unless she did so why flying through the air tangled up in her chair.
Oh yeah, the magic negro, able to slip her handcuffs, pull a knife and precisely, while suspending time and logic, slip it under the cop’s vest and, even more precisely and certainly with the amount of hatred that matches her skin melanin content, stab him in his beautiful heart…then am sure she would have straddled him and sunk her sharp teeth into his neck, drinking his blood with gusto, leaving him as deflated as a balloon freed of air…hadn’t another hero cop, perhaps Clint Eastwood or Darren Wilson, come up at that time and pumped 41 bullets in her…and while she lay shaking on the ground, ready to gather her 9 lives to go back at them and threaten the whole of American society with her ninja-vampire-black evil..yay, here is the Texas pool party cop, doing rolly pollies on the floor, cartwheels in the air…no!!!!..what’s in his hand?..a silver stake…oh God!…he pulls it, does the perfect flip and lands perfectly, sticking the stake oh so beautifully, so precisely into her dark heart.
Thank God, the beast is dead!
“I can tell you that if this girl were to have been their daughter or loved one they would be singing a different tune.
You are utterly wrong.
My kids never ever behaved that way.
She has been badly parented.
My children were parented under a patriarchal system and did quite well. No detentions. no cops called.
This girl was (likely, given the usual demographics) parented by single parent in a liberal victim-oriented matriarchy.
Hence, a modern barbarian.
“to advocate ridiculously harsh treatment of a minor disciplinary infraction (child won’t put phone away.)””
She refused to stop talking on the phone during class and wouldn’t leave.
That means that class is effectively over for the rest of the students.
So everyone must wait until she decides to comply or leave?
No school for you?
Schoolwork now depends on the lowest common denominator, the worst behavior gets to decide whether class goes on or not?
Are you serious?
NY City did not recover from the violent 70s until the Broken Windows theory was acknowledged by Guliani.
De Blasio is undoing all that with the expected results..
Rapid and rigid enforcement of small infractions reduces the escalation to big infractions.
Po, I can tell you that if this girl were to have been their daughter or loved one they would be singing a different tune. This was a 15 year old girl. The girl who was abused by the cop at the Texas pool party was also 15 years old. What is going on with police that they overreact this way? Police must be able to control their emotions better. This cop needs help.
Inga – if the police officer’s emotions were the problem, then he must be a liberal. Liberals run on emotion.
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/2015/10/27/second-student-arrested-spring-valley-hs-speaks-out/74665360/
Student Arrested Says She Was Standing Up for Classmate
A second student is speaking out after she was taken into custody during an altercation with a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School in S.C. Niya Kenny says she was sticking up for a student being forcibly removed from class.
Niya Kenny, 18, is speaking out after she was taken into custody in her Spring Valley High School math class. She says she was standing up for her classmate who was being arrested by Student Resource Officer Ben Fields.
Spinelli,
I do agree with your proposition about police in schools.
Spinelli,
Aliases are necessary when participating on a site where another participant has shown a tendency to stalk others. These days, there’s no telling what a person might do with personal information.
David says:
Students today have no respect for authority whatsoever, especially black students. They have been taught that the evil white man has oppressed them and owe them many favors and special privileges.
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Racism, by any other name!
Anyone who thinks such assault on a child, a young woman was warranted, may you have the opportunity to experience first hand how it feels to have your child or grandchild be treated similarly, then we’ll see how you really feel about it. Unless you think this treatment is only okay where black kids are involved?
People like you are why women are raped in college in epidemic levels, and domestic abuse is so prevalent in the US; the idea you can justify such treatment on a person who committed no crime speaks volume about our collective moral disease.
po – that girl did commit a crime, if they decide to prosecute. Disruption of an education setting (or whatever they call it in SC). She was disrupting class and when she refused to follow the lawful direction of the police officer, she committed another. She had probably eaten up 20 minutes of class before they got her out of there.
I don’t normally read the contents on blogs, but there does seem to be a determined attempt in this thread to advocate ridiculously harsh treatment of a minor disciplinary infraction (child won’t put phone away.)
There are complaints that classrooms are lawless, but clearly that was not the case here. Being naughty in class is not a crime. There would be time enough after class to deal with her misbehaviour.
BarkingDog,
Women and girls of color are treated more roughly than white girls generally by police. I’ve seen this happen time after time. It’s almost as if they are considered less female somehow than white females. I don’t think this level of violence should be perpetrated on either a male or female student who isn’t fighting or resisting, regardless of the students race.