“They’re human and they need to be held accountable, and that’s what we’ve done with Deputy Ben Fields”, the Associated Press reports.
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I won’t even get into what has happened to our public schools that teachers have to call the police because a student is unruly.
One speaker, Craig Conwell, said he was angry, urged board members to take action, and said the officer should have been fired immediately.
First Amendment rights are protected in schools, the court noted, but students may still not infringe on their classmates’ right to an education. “When one element fails then the process of educating our students fail”.
The investigation found Fields followed procedure until he used physical force. “He placed her under arrest, he verbally told her that she was under arrest, he attempted to use force to make the arrest”. “You have to do the investigation and get all the facts”, Lott said. An attorney for Fields said Wednesday evening that he had acted professionally and within the law.
Fields has been the subject of racial bias and excessive force allegations. That he did what was necessary. ” … He should not have thrown the student”. She was booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Lott said he wouldn’t describe Fields as remorseful, but rather sorry it all happened. A third lawsuit, dismissed in 2009, involved a woman who accused him of battery and violating her rights during a 2006 arrest. “It was not his intent. His actions were something that if he had to do it over again, he probably would have done it different”.
Lott says that any criminal charges against Fields will be determined by those agencies.
The sheriff said he spoke with Fields after his firing. He declined comment and said his attorney would release a statement soon. According to the sheriff, an administrator then came to the classroom, and the girl refused his requests to comply. She also is complaining of neck and back injuries, and psychological injuries.
From YouTube: A video of the incident.
The student was arrested, along with her friend, 18-year-old Niya Kenny, who police say was “contributing to the chaos”. “It doesn’t affect white students”, Randolph said.
Police say the incident began around 11 a.m. when the girl became disruptive in her algebra class and was texting on her phone.
A USA cop has been sacked after a video of him hurling a girl across a classroom went viral. Most of the time it shows we’re doing our job in a correct manner. “The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO”.
Lott said that complaints had been filed against Fields in the past, but not from the school district.
Sheriff Lott told the BBC he had received expressions of support for the officer, who had been at the school seven years, from a few parents and school officials.
But South Carolina has a law that muddles the role of school resource officers, the sheriff said. But, “what she did does not justify what our deputy did”. And the results of that will determine his employment here. The FBI, the Justice Department and state law enforcement have opened up separate investigations into the take down. “And when you do have to put your hands on someone, there are other techniques we use”. You try to de-escalate a situation. “We will continue to move forward with this approach”.
Recent incidents of school violence caught on ever-present cell phone cameras in classrooms.
That’s the point that Kenny said the student tried to hit him.
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The altercation occurred in a school district where African-American students make up almost 59 percent of its 27,500 pupils. In the end, Lott said that didn’t matter.
