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MSNBC reports Deputy Ben Fields ‘to be fired’ over arrest at Spring Valley HS

This is a developing story:

Update 10:19:NBC reports the news conference to announce the firing will be held at noon:

South Carolina authorities will announce Wednesday that Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields, the school resource officer who was caught on camera violently flipping a high school student in her classroom, will be relieved of duty, sources told NBC News.

Richland County…

Even when we have video showing brutalization of black students, it isn’t enough

You remember the video from 2015. A black student ripped from her chair by a Richland County Sheriff’s Deputy – Ben Fields – and flung across the floor like a bag of beans.

The incident caused outrage and a national discussion about the existence of police officers in public schools, which led to a federal investigation. Now that investigation is doneand it concluded “the evidence was…

White Cop Uses Excessive Force Against Black Female Student & the US Justice Department

This is an update on the case of a young, Black teenage female being turned over and dropped out of her chair, drug across the floor and arrested; violating the department’s policy as well as his oath as a cop. I don’t need to add this happened because he knew he could get away with it because the teenage girl is Black. That is sick, sad and heartbreaking as well as enraging but it is true. If…

Drexel Univ. professor suggests shooting Ben Fields like a rabid dog

George Ciccariello-Maher, an assistant professor at Drexel Univesity’s, tweeted earlier tonight thatBen Fields — the school resource officer fired this week after his arrest of a student went viral — should be shotlike a rabid dog: What a pleasant man he must be. And he isn’t happy with the way the principal of Spring Valley H.S. handled the rally to support Ben Fields that we told you about…

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... (Discuss at http://band.us/@sc)

Parents seek to have charges dropped against assaulted 16-year-old girl