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>> reporter: in 2007, army veteran carlos martin filed a lawsuit against officer fields, claiming he used excessive force when questioning him and his wife about a noise complaint. the jury ruled in fields' favor in 2010. but martin claims race was a factor in his arrest. >> when i saw the video, it just reminds me of all the nightmares and what i've been going through for ten years. >> reporter: a student in the classroom who posted this video wrote that fields is, quote, a cool dude and not racist. >> black people are attacked. >> reporter: still, many parents of the richland ii school distr...

Tonight the violent arrest of a south carolina high school student is now the focus of an fbi investigation and federal civil rights investigation as well. several students videotaped the incident as it went down inside an algebra classroom. if you haven't seen the images, they are hard to watch. a school resource officer slamming a 16-year-old to the ground taking her from the desk after she allegedly refused to le leave the classroom. the officer was called to the classroom after the student allegedly disrupted class taking out her cell phone. ben fields has been suspended without leave pend...

School student to the floor and dragging her will be relieved of duty. the incident was captured on video from students and since triggered widespread outrage. the richland county sheriff is expected to announce his decision on ben fields in a news conference in the next hour. he had been awaiting the result of an internal investigation. his actions are still being investigated by the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office for south carolina. craig melvin joins us live now from clum bewaw tolumbia. i think some people are surprised by the results of this internal investigation would be made availa...

It took them forever to figure out to fix it and they went to the other feed. by the way, they never missed any of the commercials. >> talk about old school media, your satellite truck going down. >> you know, that happened to cnn 100,000 years ago, it's not supposed to happen anymore. it's a bad thing and a bad thing when you have millions and millions and millions of people watching. and there are redundancies. there are systems for this. >> you'd think! >> we don't want to miss a moment of you, so we know what we're supposed to do if there's a problem. >> well done. frank, bill, great to ta...

I want to update you on the breaking news out of south carolina. we have learned that the sheriff's deputy involved in the violent arrest of a young female student has now been fired. the boss, the sheriff in the county said that the investigation revealed that the deputy sheriff ben fields did not follow the proper procedure when he threw that 16-year-old girl across the floor. joining us from south carolina, the south carolina congressman and democrat james clyburn, and thank you for joining us. i want to get your quick reaction to sheriff's decision today to fire that deputy? >> well, thank...