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Sheriff to Announce South Carolina Deputy Ben Fields to Be Fired: Sources
NBC News ^ | 10/28/2015 | NBC

Posted on 10/28/2015 7:33:59 AM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: benfields; donutwatch; police; southcarolina
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To: Political Junkie Too
"Because the student has a right (and legal expectation) to be in the building"

Only under the terms and direction of those supervising the building. Let them try breaking in on a Sunday and see what kind of "right to be in the building"there is. Remaining in a place they have been told not to be is trespass if they refuse. Under your scenario the pupil could refuse to leave and stay there all weekend and there would be nothing anyone could do about it. In fact you are saying a student can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything about it. And again,refusing to obey a teacher, principal and then a police officer when told to leave would constitute disorderly conduct and or trespass. period.

Criminal trespass is defined as "a person who knowingly or intentionally refuses to leave the real property of another person after having been asked to leave by the other person or that person's agent" That's exactly what the kid.

161 posted on 10/28/2015 3:17:42 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: kenmcg
Say what you will, but the kid was no immediate threat

This is the dumbest meme of the hood supporters.
Next time one of Oungo's sons breaks into your living room and pees on the floor...

He's not an immediate threat; but I'd love to be there to see how you handle it.

162 posted on 10/28/2015 3:18:39 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: SoftballMominVA
The easiest by far would have been to ask the other students to exit the classroom with their work and leave her in a room with no audience to off for...

I would never inconvenience an entire class in deference to a worthless piece of ****!

But that's just me.

163 posted on 10/28/2015 3:21:57 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
NO!

Not only NO!, but HELL NO!

164 posted on 10/28/2015 3:26:32 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: SoftballMominVA
Still a truly dumb idea.

Musical classrooms for the terminally clueless.

165 posted on 10/28/2015 3:31:18 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: defconw

If hypotheticals frighten you that badly, you should spend more time in a closet...


166 posted on 10/28/2015 3:38:19 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: cuban leaf
Well, better late than never...

: )

167 posted on 10/28/2015 3:41:51 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: bjcoop

No. It was proportionate, considering the instigator’s “’tude’”


168 posted on 10/28/2015 3:49:46 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: publius911
I'm afraid times have changed.

There was a time when a father could discipline his daughter by acting just like this sheriff's deputy did. However, if a father disciplines his daughter in that manner these days, he will more or less automatically be arrested and taken to jail on a domestic violence charge.

There was a time when a husband could discipline his wife by acting just as this sheriff's deputy did. However, if a husband disciplines his wife in that manner these days, he will more or less automatically be arrested and taken to jail on a domestic violence charge. It would not be a defense to argue that the wife was in fact disobedient.

Should a sheriff's deputy have more latitude than a parent or husband to act this way when a child is disobedient? Who do you trust more to discipline children - police officers or parents? I think this case raises interesting questions like that.

Times have changed. Fathers and husbands have lost many of their rights to discipline disobedient children and wives in ways that were once considered legitimate.

169 posted on 10/28/2015 3:51:10 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: freeandfreezing
Pretty scary if you ask me. We are already living in a police state. Might makes right.

LOL!

Playing the race card twice!
My dogmatism trumps your prejudice?

Seriously?

170 posted on 10/28/2015 3:56:35 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: Tau Food
Times have changed. Fathers and husbands have lost many of their rights to discipline disobedient children and wives in ways that were once considered legitimate.

Times have not changed in my circles. Ever.

None of the horrors you cite in your reply ever existed in my universe! Then, or now.

Nice Red herring, though.

171 posted on 10/28/2015 3:59:45 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: publius911
Times have not changed in my circles. Ever.

None of the horrors you cite in your reply ever existed in my universe! Then, or now.

Nice Red herring, though.

I didn't cite any horrors. I merely pointed out that the state has curtailed the rights of fathers and husbands to discipline disobedient family members. Times have changed whether you recognize it or not. If you live in the United States, the laws and traditions governing the conduct of fathers and husbands have been altered in your "circle."

And, so the question arises, who does the state trust more to discipline disobedience of a child or wife? Who do you trust more - the father or the state?

Until recently, our traditions (including our Biblical teaching) entrusted the father with responsibilities that the state has now stripped from fathers. I'm not comfortable with the State exercising disciplinary functions that a father or husband now lacks. I trust parents more than the police when it comes to disciplining mere disobedience.

172 posted on 10/28/2015 4:11:00 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The dept and school did not want an Obama justice dept team harassing them.


173 posted on 10/28/2015 4:18:49 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: JLS

Try trespass and interference with an officer.


174 posted on 10/28/2015 4:54:47 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: Stingray51

I understand, but I believe’excessive’ has everything to do with context. If I were on the jury I would vote ‘not.’


175 posted on 10/28/2015 4:57:55 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: freeandfreezing
I gave you a list of actions that confirmed feral youth, none of which involved color. It's a mindset which does not require any pigment to describe. And you didn't ask about my reasons before you brought up race.

Call "Rev" Al. You'll fit right in.

176 posted on 10/28/2015 5:04:59 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: circlecity
My point was obviously during school hours, as I have given only school hour examples.

A school cannot push a child onto the street without supervision. They don't allow non-approved adults to pick up children, so why do you think they can just order a child out during school hours? That's why I said detention room if not the classroom.

This was not a case of after-hours refusal to leave. But let's for a moment entertain the idea. Would you think a teacher's first reaction to a child who doesn't want to leave school would be to call the police to drag the child out, or would the teacher first wonder what the child was afraid of and call the counsellor or child protective services?

Leaving the classroom is not leaving the school, I don't think the teacher in a classroom has the same property rights to call it trespass, and a police officer has no business enforcing a teacher's "rules" under color of authority.

-PJ

177 posted on 10/28/2015 5:05:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Chainsawj

“Just black and minority students will get away with it...”

Then, of course, they’ll p*ss and moan that it’s due to ‘racism’ they can’t get jobs, not sheer stupidity, social backwardness, and utter lack of education. The Democrats will respond by passing more giveaways in exchange for make-work jobs, expecting (and getting) votes in return, and the dumbing down of America will continue to reduce standards everywhere.

That is the future of multi-racial America.


178 posted on 10/28/2015 7:39:01 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: gogeo

She was a student at the school so she was not trespassing, just like you can not have your unruly child at your house arrested for trespassing either. You could not get a jury in the world to civic a child not suspended from school for trespass for being at their school during school hours.

She did not interfere with an officer either. She was sitting in a desk.

I guess you might argue she failed to obey an order. Though I am not sure how it is a lawful oder for a cop to order a child out of their assigned classroom. Also I have not heard that this “resource officer” was trying to arrest her. Had he done his job and stood her up and marched her to the office, he would have his job still.


179 posted on 10/28/2015 9:33:50 PM PDT by JLS
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To: defconw
"Well in my day the teacher would have called the parents, not the police."

In mine the teacher would have handled it. Usually the same way the cop did. There weren't many second offenses.

180 posted on 10/28/2015 9:40:57 PM PDT by moehoward
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