When the incident was first reported on CNN Lemon said “I would like to see what happened before (the video clip) and I would like to see what happened afterwards”.
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Hostin claimed she doesn’t need more information because the “law provides that the standard here is whether or not the officer has to use this type of force”, which she believes he did not.
“I don’t need to know more”, Hostin retorted.
A cellphone video showed Fields grabbing the girl’s neck because she allegedly refused to leave the classroom.
A few reports indicate the teen struck the officer before he placed his hand on her, though even if she did, the ferocity of the takedown remains quite disturbing.
Lemon told former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin on Monday night that people should “know more before passing judgement”. [But] it does look awful, it does look like there’s no excuse for what he’s doing for her, [but] we don’t know… “I don’t know. I think there’s context to everything”, Lemon said. It does look awful.
The drama between Sunny and Don started after Wolf Blitzer opened the floor for discussion on the hit news series, The Situation Room.
The student never resisted arrest and was thrown across the room in a display of excessive force. The CNN journalist had the audacity to question the reasons why Richland County Deputy Officer Ben Fields tossed around a high school girl like a rag doll. There is no justification for using that kind [of force]. Whether or not that force is justifiable is the issue, and the force is not justifiable.
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It all began when a video surfaced online of a young woman being choked and dragged out of her chair by a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
