South Carolina police officer, Ben Fields, has been justly
fired from his job with the Richland County school district,
after he was secretly videotaped inexcusably putting a
defenseless 16-year-old female student in a chokehold, slamming
her to the ground, then tossing her across the room, before
jumping on her back and handcuffing her.
The video was posted on Twitter and You Tube causing a
firestorm online. Fields' boss, Richland County Sheriff, Leon
Lott, stated the officer did not follow protocol. Fields also
has a history of physically assaulting students in the Richland
County school district, as attested by many tweets on Twitter by
victims and witnesses.
Ben Fields
Fields' lawyer, Scott Hayes stated, "We believe that Mr.
Fields' actions were justified and lawful throughout the
circumstances of which he was confronted during this incident.
To that extent we believe that Mr. Fields' actions were carried
out professionally and that he was performing his job duties
within the legal threshold."
You're his lawyer. You're getting paid to say that, but if
somebody put your kid in a chokehold, slammed her to the ground,
tossed her across a room, then jumped on her back and cuffed
her, you would sue him into bankruptcy. Fields has roid rage
issues and thinks he's a wrestler. There was no necessity for
him to treat her that way. She made no motion towards him. It
was excessive force and police brutality. Make it worse, your
client has a history of this misconduct in the school district
clearing indicating he is a danger to the kids. Fields should
have been arrested.
Ben Fields
Given what has been happening to black people in America at
the hands of some police officers, many are afraid to go
anywhere with a cop. I am not stating people should resist
arrest, but so many black people who did not, were injured or
killed on the scene or in custody. Something is wrong. Ignoring
the problem is not going to make it go away. The world is
watching and something needs to be done to correct these abuses.
South Carolina police officer, Ben Fields, has been suspended
from the Richland County School District, after he placed a
16-year-old black girl in a chokehold as she sat at her desk,
slammed her to the ground, threw her across the room, then
jumped on her back to handcuff the defenseless teen.
The 16-year-old girl was arrested. A 17-year-old female
classmate was arrested as well for crying and stating Fields
should stop his misconduct. Essentially, she was arrested for
free speech. America has now officially become a police state,
where the Constitution has been tossed out the window. Fields'
behavior is criminal and inexcusable.
Ben Fields is an abusive police
officer who takes steroids
Fields' conduct is an extreme abuse of his post and is the
definition of excessive force and police brutality. Fields'
conduct also constitutes assault on a minor. He could have
broken her back or neck. He could have caused a fatal head
injury. He endangered a minor. Fields' exhibited no regard for
her health or safety. He treated the poor child like a ragdoll
who isn't worth anything, when she is a precious human being
with rights like anyone else in society
Spring Valley High School students took to Twitter to
complain about Fields. Black students overwhelmingly wrote he
has a history of abusing them. White students wrote he has
a history of abusing people at the school. One student tweeted
that she saw Fields slam a pregnant woman to the ground. Said
conduct causes fetal distress and endangers the life of an
unborn baby in what could have resulted in a miscarriage. Fields
has been sued in two separate cases for engaging in police
brutality. One of the cases is set to go to trial next year.
After his conduct on the video that enraged the public this
week, he should be behind bars.
Ben Fields is a danger to kids
And some wonder why people keep tweeting the hashtag "Black
Lives Matter" on Twitter (#BlackLivesMatter). Take a good look
at that video. That's why. It's one of many reasons why, thanks
to the conduct of some, not all police officers, who abuse and
kill black people in America.
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Deputy Ben Fields: 5 Fast Facts
You Need to Know
Published 6:19 pm EDT, October 26, 2015 Updated 11:30 am EDT,
October 27, 2015 - A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy is under
investigation after videos were posted online Monday showing him
violently throwing a high school student from her desk in a
classroom. The videos of the incident involving Richland County
Senior Deputy Ben Fields surfaced just hours after it happened
at Spring Valley High School. The Richland County School
District 2 and sheriff’s office say they are investigating.
Students who were in the classmate say the girl was asked by
the teacher to get off her cell phone, but refused, and then
would not leave the class room when asked by an administrator,
so police were called. She allegedly refused the deputy’s
requests to get up from her desk, and that is when the videos
begin.
Fields, the 34-year-old senior school resource officer at the
high school, has been placed on administrative duty while the
sheriff’s office investigates. The school district said it has
asked Fields to not return to any school in the district pending
the outcome of the investigation. Federal authorities say they
will also be assisting in the investigation.
The girl in the video was arrested, according to the
sheriff’s office. Another student was also arrested in
connection with the incident, according to WLTX...The 15-second
video was posted on social media just hours after the incident
happened on Monday. It shows a white officer grabbing the black
student by the arm as she sits in her desk. Deputy Ben Fields,
at one point during the incident, says to the girl, “Are you
going to come with me or am I going to make you? Come on. I’m
going to get you up.”
In the video, Fields pulls on her arm, moving the desk and
the girl and then grabs hold of her shoulder and neck area. He
turns over the desk, throwing it and the unnamed student to the
ground. He then drags her toward the door, pulling the desk
along with her and then throws her out of it before jumping on
top of her to handcuff her as the video ends.
The incident started when the teacher, Robert Long, saw the
girl on her cell phone and asked her to put it away, her
classmate, Tony Robinson Jr., told WLTX-TV. “She really hadn’t
done anything wrong,” he told the news station. “She said she
took her phone out, but it was only for a quick second.” An
administrator, assistant principal for discipline, KaRon Webb,
came to the classroom, and eventually called for Fields, the
school resource officer.
Robinson said he could tell Fields was going to do something
as soon as he arrived. He said Fields moved the girl’s laptop
and then told another student to move a desk out of the way.
“I’ve never seen anything so nasty looking, so sick to the point
that other students are turning away,” Robinson said. “They’re
just scared for their lives. That’s supposed to be someone
that’s going to protect us. Not somebody to be scared of.”
Students in the classroom sit, most in silence, as Long, the
teacher, and administrator also watce. In a second angle of the
video, Fields can be heard telling another student, “I’ll put
you in jail next.” Niya Kenny told WLTX-TV that Fields was
yelling at her when she spoke up to defend her classmate.
“I was screaming ‘What the f, what the f is this really
happening?’ I was praying out loud for the girl,” Kenny told the
news station. “I just couldn’t believe this was happening I was
just crying and he said, since you have so much to say you are
coming too. I just put my hands behind my back.” Kenny, 18, was
charged with disturbing school, a misdemeanor, and released on
$1,000 bail.
“I know this girl don’t got nobody and I couldn’t believe
this was happening,” Kenny said. “I had never seen nothing like
that in my life, a man use that much force on a little girl. A
big man, like 300 pounds of full muscle. I was like ‘no way, no
way.’ You can’t do nothing like that to a little girl.”...
Deputy Ben Fields is facing a lawsuit in federal court
accusing him of violating the civil rights of a student at
Spring Valley High School. The student, Ashton James Reese, was
expelled from the high school for “unlawful assembly of gang
activity and assault and battery,” in 2013. He was accused of
participating in a “gang related” fight in a Walmart parking lot
near the school...
Fields was also sued in federal court in 2007 from his time
as a patrol deputy. A jury eventually ruled in Fields’ favor. In
that lawsuit, Fields was accused of violating the civil rights
of a man and woman at an apartment complex in Columbia. The
plaintiff, Carlos Martin, says was driving his car near his home
and saw a police officer driving his cruiser in the parking lot.
He said he nodded to the officer “as a friendly gesture and
greeting.”
Martin said shortly after he parked his car and was walking
to his apartment. He says he then heard the officer, later
identified as Fields, running toward him calling, “Hey you.”
Fields asked for Martin’s license and registration and asked if
he was the cause of excessive noise that a resident had
complained about. Martin told Fields he wasn’t the source and
had just got home from work.
“Deputy Fields became agitated when Plaintiff Carlos Martin,
with absolutely no disrespect, addressed Deputy Fields using the
colloquial term ‘dude,'” the lawsuit states. “Despite (Martin’s)
attempts to assure the Deputy that he intended no disrespect,
Deputy Fields nevertheless became increasingly angry. Deputy
Fields’ unprovoked anger escalated to the point that he grabbed
(Martin), slammed him to the ground, cuffed him, began kicking
him, and chemically maced him until his clothing was drenched
and the contents of the can of mace was depleted.”
According to the lawsuit, Fields later seized a cell phone
from Martin’s wife, Tashiana Rogers, and never returned to her.
He also arrested her. Rogers, who was then Martin’s wife, said
she recorded the incident on video, and that’s why the phone was
seized. The charges against both were later dropped when the
prosecution failed to show up for court...
