Columbia, SC: Deputy Benjamin "Ben" Fields aka "Officer Slam" fired for tossing Niya Kenny

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    Some idiots -- and Rod Guynn is one such idiot -- just totally miss point.

    Of course the girl was at fault, but that in no way justifies the deputy's abusive battery of the student. In all the schools I attended as a youth (as an air force brat there were quite a few), none ever relied on police officers to do the educators' work.

    Rod Guynn: Student is instigator, not victim

    The student then proceeded to violate two cardinal rules (worthy of suspension from school and/or arrest), i.e. direct defiance of the teacher’s authority and direct defiance of the police officer’s authority. Mind you, this was done in the presence of ...


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    Rod Guynn: Student is instigator, not victim

    The student then proceeded to violate two cardinal rules (worthy of suspension from school and/or arrest), i.e. direct defiance of the teacher’s authority and direct defiance of the police officer’s authority. Mind you, this was done in the presence of ...


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    Rod Guynn: Student is instigator, not victim

    The student then proceeded to violate two cardinal rules (worthy of suspension from school and/or arrest), i.e. direct defiance of the teacher’s authority and direct defiance of the police officer’s authority. Mind you, this was done in the presence of ...


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    Police in schools: Keeping kids safe, or arresting them for no good reason?

    The violent arrest of a South Carolina high school student in class last month has triggered new scrutiny of the nation’s school resource officers, whose numbers have increased in recent decades alongside concerns about school safety and mass shootings. There are now more than 43,000 school resource officers and other sworn police officers, and an additional 39,000 security guards, working in the nation’s 84,000 public schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. They have been hired, often with the help of federal dollars, in a post-Columbine age in which many communities want to do everything possible to guard ...


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    Niya Arrested for Challenging Police Abuse in School

    One day last fall, Niya Kenny was sitting in her math class at Spring Valley High School in Richland County, South Carolina, when a police officer came into the classroom. A girl in her class had refused to put away her cell phone, and the teacher had summoned an administrator, who called on the officer assigned to the school. Niya thought the officer was bad news — his name was Ben Fields, but he was so aggressive that students knew him as Officer Slam. As soon as he entered the room, she called out for other students to record him. ...


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    Settlement Reached SC Deputy Accused Of Tossing Student

    The South Carolina sheriff's department whose deputy tossed a student across a classroom after she refused to give up her cellphone has signed an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that settles a civil rights review. The federal agency calls the settlement, effective Friday, part of its effort to stem the "school-to-prison pipeline." Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union sued South Carolina in federal court on Thursday over what it calls the criminalization of normal adolescent misbehavior. The lawsuit challenges the state's "disturbing schools" and "disorderly conduct" charges as unconstitutionally vague. The DOJ agreement requires Richland County to provide intensive ...


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    Former deputy improperly sought arrest of Spring Valley parent, lawsuit alleges

    Seven months before former Richland County sheriff’s deputy Ben Fields made national news by pulling a student from her chair and tossing her in a Spring Valley High School classroom, Fields caused the unlawful arrest of an innocent woman who was helping another Spring Valley student, a lawsuit in federal court alleges. Although Fields got an arrest warrant for the woman, Holly Johnson, a preschool teacher, on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a Richland County grand jury – without saying why – refused to indict her, the lawsuit said. “The grand jury didn’t even find ...


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    Deputy who tossed SC high school student won't be charged

    A South Carolina sheriff's deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom, a prosecutor announced Friday in a case that focused attention on the consequences of bringing law enforcers into classroom confrontations. In a 12-page report, Solicitor Dan Johnson said he found no probable cause to charge Ben Fields. The school resource officer was recorded by students at Spring Valley High School flipping a female student to the floor and dragging her across a classroom after she refused to surrender her cellphone last October. Fields was fired by the Richland County Sheriff's Department. Videos of the ...


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    Deputy who tossed SC high school student won't be charged

    A South Carolina sheriff's deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom, a prosecutor announced Friday in a case that focused attention on the consequences of bringing law enforcers into classroom confrontations. In a 12-page report, Solicitor Dan Johnson said he found no probable cause to charge Ben Fields. The school resource officer was recorded by students at Spring Valley High School flipping a female student to the floor and dragging her across a classroom after she refused to surrender her cellphone last October. Fields was fired by the Richland County Sheriff's Department. Videos of the ...


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    She Recorded Her Classmate's Arrest, Then Got Arrested, Too

    Niya Kenny had just intended to document what she feared could be a bad situation. But when she encouraged her classmates at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., to join her in recording a student’s violent arrest by a school police officer in 2015, she never suspected the videos would spread across the internet and ignite fierce debate about school discipline and law enforcement. Officer Ben Fields, the school-based sheriff’s deputy who dragged her classmate from her desk after the girl refused to give up a cellphone, later arrested Kenny on the same charge—disturbing a school. The charge stemmed ...


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    Spring Valley student sues Richland County sheriff, Richland 2 school district

    The student who encouraged others to film a deputy school resource officer as he tossed a fellow student from her desk in a Spring Valley High School classroom is suing the school district and the sheriff’s department. Niya Kenny is suing Richland 2 and the Richland County Sheriff’s Department for false arrest, defamation and negligent supervision, according to the lawsuit, filed just before 5 p.m. Tuesday in state court in Richland County. Kenny was initially charged with disturbing schools after she tried to intervene in the October 2015 incident, which made national headlines. The student who was tossed from her ...


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    Years later the poor pig "Officer Slam" (Ben Fields) is still to retarded to under the gravity of what he did.

    As Canned Heat once sang, "If you big, dumb & stupid, the xxx sheriff's office wants you. Remedial courses are available for the culturally deprived."


    School Officer Who Slammed Black Teen to Ground in Viral Video Still Thinks He’s the Victim

    During what was supposed to be a quiet math class on a Monday in October 2015, Shakara, a 16-year-old Black girl, was violently yanked from her desk by an impatient school resource officer. He wrapped his arm around her neck, flipped her over, dragged her across the carpeted ground, and put her in handcuffs. What warranted this aggressive use of force? The teen wouldn’t budge from her seat when a teacher claimed she wouldn’t hand over a cell phone that she didn’t have. What happened at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina might have gone under the radar ...


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