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Sheriff to decide if South Carolina deputy keeps job after classroom arrest
The Times-Picayune ^ | 10/28/2015 | AP

Posted on 10/28/2015 7:10:30 AM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

A South Carolina sheriff's deputy who flipped a student backward in her desk and tossed her across the floor for refusing to leave math class could learn as soon as Wednesday whether he will be fired.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said once his agency's internal investigation is complete, he will make a decision about whether to keep Senior Deputy Ben Fields on the force.

"We're going to handle it appropriately and we're going to handle it very quickly. This is not something that should drag out," Lott told reporters at a news conference Tuesday. "I think the public demands and expects and should get a very quick answer on this, and that's what we're going to do."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: benfields; cop; donutwatch; police; southcarlina; southcarolina

1 posted on 10/28/2015 7:10:30 AM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Give him a raise and a promotion.


2 posted on 10/28/2015 7:12:32 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

The student will somehow be called a “heroine” by the media, the deputy will lose his job, and it’ll become impossible for any teacher, anywhere, ever again to get a student to turn off a cell phone.

The dumbing down continues apace, and it’s all so depressingly predictable.


3 posted on 10/28/2015 7:15:58 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Schools now routinely summon police to discipline students, experts say.

The crux of the problem.

4 posted on 10/28/2015 7:16:29 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: oh8eleven

I wouldn’t provide any more security or help to any school. They need to just start suspending kids left and right. Five days here, ten days there...make them repeat entire class years after 20-odd days of suspension in one year. Cops don’t need to be involved. Schools need to dump that kid (no matter what age they pretend to be) back onto the parents. If you got some punk loser kid who just can’t pay attention in class....well, McDonalds doesn’t require a high school diploma and that punk can be the fries guy or the burger flipper.

Save real cops for real work. School security isn’t worth the cost or effort.


5 posted on 10/28/2015 7:17:06 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

The 18 year old girl’s attitude and outlook were seeded, fertilized and encouraged to grow by the currant occupant of the White House.
Did the cop over react ? Probably did.

Why are cell phones allowed in high school buildings in the first place ?


6 posted on 10/28/2015 7:20:32 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

In the famous word of Marion Barry
“B*tch set me up... I shouldn’t have come up here... god**** b*tch.


7 posted on 10/28/2015 7:21:06 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: pepsionice
I wouldn’t provide any more security or help to any school.

Sympathetic with you, but teachers and school officials cannot touch children. What to do? Bring in the cops. Sad state of affairs..... By the way, the LEO seems to have acted reasonably. He might also have cleared the room of other students, for safety reasons, and then sat there along with one or two school admins waiting the girl out, and waiting for a parent to be called out of work (big leap here) and show up themselves to pull the girl from the room..... There are problems with this approach also. (It creates precedent, etc.)

Who made the call to send the FBI in to the post-action affairs? Justice? White House?

When will the mobs start forming?

When will we ever start forming counter mobs?

8 posted on 10/28/2015 7:26:11 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Meanwhile, the people in high crime areas will wail about not having police protection and having no clue police recruitment is down 40% because no sane person wants to take this crap......from them.


9 posted on 10/28/2015 7:26:20 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why are cell phones allowed in high school buildings in the first place ?

Security. For communication in emergency / lock-down / active shooter / disaster situation. Rightfully so.

At the time of the Navy Yard shooting, the Navy enforced a policy of forbidding Navy employees and contractors occupying the building to bring cell phones inside the building. Ostensibly for information security purposes. After the Navy Yard shooting, the Navy (rightly) relaxed this policy. The Navy is now moving to un-relax this policy. Stupidly IMO. For reasons of information security.

10 posted on 10/28/2015 7:32:29 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

The students are not the one who should be recording this.

There needs to be a video camera in every classroom.

Bring the parents in, and show them what “not my little baby” is up to in school.

I saw one feral animal actually jump on top of a teachers desk and scream “I want and A” for his grade in that class.

The teacher (on older grey haired man) is defenseless in these situations.

A feral animal like that goes into a special class with leg-irons until he learns to behave.

Hire some of the big black ‘bruthuh’s’ who have learned their lesson in prison as enforcers. (only ones who have seriously repented and seen how their own actions ruined their lives)

Sort of like ‘scared straight’ in high school.


11 posted on 10/28/2015 7:38:02 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: mbarker12474

If the student was 18 then the parents no longer have a say.


12 posted on 10/28/2015 7:39:52 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: pepsionice
They need to just start suspending kids left and right.
That's raaaacist, don't ya' know.
13 posted on 10/28/2015 7:42:59 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Mr. K

As the schools become more feral, cop-free killing zones, normal people will remove their kids, and the public schools will burn to the ground.

Nice work RATs.


14 posted on 10/28/2015 7:46:47 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: mbarker12474

It would seem that having phones in a classroom would be disruptive.

Back when I was in high school, a student could get detention for not having his shirt tail tucked in...


15 posted on 10/28/2015 8:10:44 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: pepsionice
They need to just start suspending kids left and right. Five days here, ten days there...make them repeat entire class years after 20-odd days of suspension in one year. Cops don’t need to be involved. Schools need to dump that kid (no matter what age they pretend to be) back onto the parents....Save real cops for real work. School security isn’t worth the cost or effort.

Yes, this.

Wimpy teachers and school administrators calling police about routine matters of discipline is the equivalent of dialing 911 because you are unhappy with your drive-thru food.

16 posted on 10/28/2015 8:29:04 AM PDT by citizen (America is-or was-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Call that worthless Sheriff next time to come handle an out of control nubian student.


17 posted on 10/28/2015 8:48:48 AM PDT by armydawg505
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