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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: mbarker12474
Do the other students in the classroom not have the expectation of a calm classroom?

Yes. Perhaps the teacher and principal should have asked all the other students to assemble in the auditorium for continuation of class and prevented the unruly student from leaving the classroom...if she attempted to. If she attempted to leave, then let her....and close the door. Have the rest of the class stay.

61 posted on 10/28/2015 8:15:12 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: Yo-Yo
The problem is the school administration passed off a routine discipline issue to the school resource officer, instead performing their duties and handling the issue themselves.

Then you obviously have no clue about the state of public schools. Be ignorant if you will, but expect to be mocked.

62 posted on 10/28/2015 8:16:17 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

#BlackThugPayday


63 posted on 10/28/2015 8:17:41 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: odawg

Well in my day the teacher would have called the parents, not the police.


64 posted on 10/28/2015 8:17:47 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: defconw

Well in my day the teacher would have called the parents, not the police.
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Well, “your day” is no more. There’s every likelihood that this out-of-control “student’s” parent(s) couldn’t be contacted, refused to intervene or simply DIDN’T CARE.


65 posted on 10/28/2015 8:21:42 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: gogeo
Then you obviously have no clue about the state of public schools. Be ignorant if you will, but expect to be mocked.

My wife works at a public Junior High School. I believe I do know the state of Public Schools.

The girl didn't have a weapon, the girl didn't make physical threats. The girl was just performing an attention grabbing sit-in. Why was a resource officer required to arrest her? And if she didn't need to be arrested, the resource officer shouldn't have been called.

School Resource Officers are not the principal's behavior-enforcing 'muscle.' They are there to protect the safety of the students and staff.

66 posted on 10/28/2015 8:24:09 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

I taught at an inter cities middle school and saw this kind of response on a regular basis. These trouble makers respond to nothing but force. There wasn’t a damn thing wrong with what this officer did!!!


67 posted on 10/28/2015 8:25:41 AM PDT by ontap
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To: tiger63
This is simple, cell phones should never ever be allowed in the class room.

That was probably already the case.

In my school, cell phones were banned for years. But how do you enforce that? You can't pat down every person entering the building. We put up a big sign, but problem students, of course, just ignored that.

Eventually we got metal detectors, cell phones were taken, and then returned at the end of the day. Then parents started to complain: My kid might need his phone in case of an immediate family emergency!

Those parents vote (and they can sue), so the school board caved. Students can keep their cell phones as long as they are off.

Result: Incidents of students talking on their phones in class happen DAILY somewhere in the school. So the kids gets suspended for a day. What do they care? It's just a day off from school.

68 posted on 10/28/2015 8:25:50 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Calpublican

Well:

1. I think he deserved firing for throwing the girl. Maybe the knocking her and the desk over was just part of trying to snatch her out of the desk, but even that was sketchy. If he can not remove a child who was no threat from a classroom without knocking her in her desk to the ground and then throwing her a couple of feet, he needs a job he is more capable at, recently not a school resource officer.

2. This guy also has a history and the New Post wrote about it right away. That is another clue he needs a different career.

3. As to what the students learn, I hope it is that if the authorities do wrong you should just accept it and they will be punished. That is a good lesson or any teen to learn.


69 posted on 10/28/2015 8:26:09 AM PDT by JLS
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To: freedumb2003

Yep. The next time some school administrator needs a cop to deal with a feral - the cops should tell them to suck it.

Controlling a thug/thugette in school is not worth ruining your life over.


70 posted on 10/28/2015 8:27:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: BillM

“Squirt her with skunk oil!”

Her boyfriend(s) likely do that daily.


71 posted on 10/28/2015 8:28:30 AM PDT by Beagle8U (jeb! continues to not only step in it, but lie down and roll in it! - freedumb2003)
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To: cuban leaf
It’s what is called a red herring. If it happens in 500 or 1000 schools and in a similar manner, action should be taken in the states where it happens. But this is a local story - in my eyes.

Was Ferguson a 'local issue?'

It's coming soon to your school district. If you think not...dream on. It's the nature of those who are not self controlled that they do as they please until forced to stop.

The Feds are now involved, and whatever they perceive as the issues involved will be the basis for the enforcement actions and settlements moving forward. That is their agenda.

What are the odds, do you suppose, that any corrective action ordered by the Feds will involve some form of sensitivity training...that is, that authority figures must learn that being took to F#%K themselves is just a cultural difference?

72 posted on 10/28/2015 8:30:12 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: House Atreides; defconw
Well, “your day” is no more. There’s every likelihood that this out-of-control “student’s” parent(s) couldn’t be contacted, refused to intervene or simply DIDN’T CARE.

Good list HA, but you missed one possibility. There is a good chance that the parent will intervene on the side of their child (the student), using threats of lawsuits against the school, etc.

73 posted on 10/28/2015 8:31:36 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: PubliusMM

Education was interrupted already. That was a fact. The level of how much to be interrupted was in the officer’s hands.

There were choices he could have made.


74 posted on 10/28/2015 8:32:14 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: Yo-Yo

You may know the state of your public schools in particular, but show no awareness of the state of public schools in general.


75 posted on 10/28/2015 8:32:28 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: ctdonath2

Nope, she doesn’t win. She loses...her audience. Which was what this was all about.

The consequences of her behavior still happen, in fact they are actually worse because she continues to refuse to follow instructions. Not only that, she ends up looking silly.


76 posted on 10/28/2015 8:34:04 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: JLS

Let’s hear your theories about dealing with feral youth.


77 posted on 10/28/2015 8:34:13 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: Beagle8U

She will certainly beget more skunks!


78 posted on 10/28/2015 8:34:32 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat debate was audtiton to see who would wear the American jackboot. Ted Cruz)
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To: gogeo

The idea is to ask the other students leave and let their education continue. Let the administrators handle it after that. With no audience. The audience is everything. Remove that, and the offender backs down quickly.


79 posted on 10/28/2015 8:37:05 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: defconw
Well in my day the teacher would have called the parents, not the police.

In your day the parents would have done something about their child's misbehavior.

80 posted on 10/28/2015 8:37:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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