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Morning? >> good morning to you, jose. the community and sheriffs department involved all very concerned about what actually happened inside this spring valley classroom. the sheriff said his department is very involved and very serious with this investigation. he says that they will complete a policy violation investigation which will pertain to the deputys job itself. he has also in addition to that requested assistance from the fbi to do their own independent investigation into possible crimi...

Valley high, is now on administrative duty, thats the school resource officer, until the investigation is complete. his name is ben fields. hes one of two resource officers at the school. no injuries reported according to the spokesperson. the sheriff is currently out of town at a conference. he was shown a video and "he was very disturbed by what he saw." >> the sheriff is also asking for everyone to exercise patience at this time as this is being fully investigated. hes not going to leave any ...

The poster says the teacher disciplined the student with a write-up for being disrespectful and disobedient. an administrator came in to remove her, she refused and thats when the student resource officer came into the room. he asked her four or five times to get up and after asking her four or five times, thats where the officer got physical. he was detained and later released to her parents uninjured. he is senior deputy ben fields with the richland sheriffs department and its confirmed hes be...

Resource officer ben fields. that said, here is perspective number two. >> jason carroll is with me. what happened? >> its difficult to watch. i think whats happening now is a number of parents in that community are looking at that vud owe and asking themselves would they want their daughter treated that way. even if this daughter was being defiant as this student allegedly was. not only did the teacher ask her to leave the classroom, an administrator was brought in to ask her to leave. she did ...

The teacher then called in the school resource officer ben fields. he arrested this young woman seen in the video. a second female student who says she was simply trying stand up for this girl who was getting restrained, she was arrested. both were charged with disturbing schools. here now is another perspective, same video. >> lets get reaction to all this happening here. i have state representative mya mccloud. thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having me, brooke. >> i read your facebook ...

The investigation is complete. his name is ben fields. hes one of two resource officers at the school. no injuries reported according to the spokesperson. the sheriff is currently out of town at a conference. he was shown the video and "he was very disturbed by what he saw." >> the sheriff is also asking for everyone to exercise patience at this time as this is being fully investigated. hes not going to leave any stone unturned checking out exactly what took place and what happened. as well as t...

Wanting to be a part, having concer concerns. and its just -- it goes from issues with accommodations, not being followed with regard to ieps and 504 plans to just overt disregard of these accommodations to the point of where we have an alternative school, alternative program, rather, that is all really populated by african-american males. >> let me point out, going back to this case that is being investigated, the officer ben fields, apparently had two legal incidents, 2013, named a defendant i...

An incident back in 2007. he and several other officers were sued and were accused of excessive force. again, the deputy won that case. the second lawsuit is still pending. there, a student sued deputy fields and other school officials for that incident in 2013 claiming that in part, fields unfairly and recklessly targets african-american students. now, fields and the other defendants deny any wrongdoing in that case. they presented evidence to dispute those allegations but again, that case is s...

Thats what i have to look for. >> reporter: why would a deputy who received the districts highest honor last year use such force? one student in the room writes on social media the officer is a cool dude. he is not racist. girl was asked to put her phone away but told teacher no and administrator was called, asked her to come to his office. he told him know. then called the resource officer. he asked her nicely to get up, over and over. he did nothing wrong. the incident has caused anger and rev...

The officer was called to escort the student out. the incident was captured on cell phone video by another student in the classroom. the student was detained and released reportedly uninjured into her paintrents custody. the officer is senior deputy ben fields with the richland county sheriffs department. he has been placed on administrative leave and declined to comment. nbcs gabe gutierrez joins me with more from columbia, south carolina. i know we have to be careful when talking about cell ph...