A student caught on video a deputy police officer at Spring Valley High School assaulting a black female student in a South Carolina class room. The 15-second video circulated on social media sites across the nation Monday, going viral along with Twitter campaigns. A second video has emerged, longer, more detailed, even more disturbing.
"Sitting in a desk while black is illegal," Twitter user tweeted at #ArrestAtSpringValleySchool.
An officer responded to the student who would not leave the classroom, according to Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.
After the young woman in class failed to obey orders to leave her desk and the room, and instead, passively remained in her chair, school staff called in Deputy Ben Fields, Spring Valley High School's "school resource officer" cop, a newer American school entitiy since the United States became a police state. (The U.S. supposedly needs more police, not more teachers with evidence-based preventive counseling in the classroom skills that work.)
To more fully grasp the US education system's core issues, including "scool resource officers" such as Ben Field, read the Justice Policy Institute report "Education Under Arrest."
Deputy Field's violence against the student -- grabbing, lifting her and the desk and then slamming both onto the ground (seemingly enough for the body builder officer to break her neck), was more than enough for an immediate arrest these days -- had the perpetrator been anyone other than a police officer.
Instead? The student was arrested, taken into custody. The officer roamed freely, first at school, then, at home and tonight in his neighborhood.
Revolution MacInnes @From_Nothing tweeted: "I'm guessing the folks at #FoxandFriends are already setting up a #gofundme account for Officer Ben Fields! #ArrestAtSpringValleyHigh"
Johnny on his Johnny Fox Show on YouTube (below) has a sobering take on the incident and what has transpired every day in America's schools that led them to be what they are today: incarceration preparation facilities.
metamitya @metamitya tweeted, "What lesson did the students who watched this violent arrest learn? A front row seat to oppression. #ArrestAtSpringValleyHigh"
Twitter is exposing some of the best Americans' sentiments regarding the issue and the larger issue.
The young woman student was legally charged with disturbing schools, and then released to the custody of her parents. Another female student was charged with disturbing schools, (but she was not the person who recorded the video, as an officer previously stated).
Deputy Fields has been placed on administrative duty, according to a statement by Lt. Curtis Wilson with the Richland County Sheriff's Department Monday night. Deputy Fields will not be back at any school pending the results of an investigation.
Why isn't he already in custody, as any student would be (or worse) for the same offense? Has the student who took the video has received no award for courage, agility and technical expertise?
The 15-second school video sent shivers down 36-year-old Army veteran Carlos Martin's spine. He'd been "manhandled by the beefy South Carolina cop the same way almost exactly 10 years before," according to NY Daily News. "I recognized him on the spot. I remembered how big he was," Martin told the Daily News.
Martin encountered Fields twice: once in a Columbia, S.C. parking lot during an arrest and later, in a courtroom, where Martin and his wife, Tashiana, filed suit against the Fields for civil rights violations.
NY Daily News reports:
"Martin said the beefy officer "snapped" after he called him "dude," and slammed him on the ground. He began pepper-spraying the helpless veteran, but Martin said he was trained in the military to resist the chemicals. An entire canister of the stuff failed to disable Martin.
"''He became even more violent because I didn't react like most people would.' Martin said.
"His wife at the time, Tashiana Rogers, witnessed the fracas, and ran outside to take photos of the violent encounter with her cellphone. That's when Fields called for his partner to "get her black ass," Martin said. The officer grabbed her phone and deleted the photos. Fields then called for backup.
"'I'm watching my wife get beat up in front of me, and there's nothing I can do about it,' Martin said."
After 10 years in the service, the former medic said his encounter with Fields led to his divorce and military discharge. The lawsuit was dismissed due to issues proving excessive force, his criminal trial lawyer John Mobley told Daily News. His ex-wife's lawsuit went to court and the jury ruled in the sheriff department's favor, Mobley said.
The Miami Voice tweeted Monday night on @Officer Ben Fields, "We must all unite to ban Israeli training of tactics for American law enforcement."
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