Page 21 - Oben Fields News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Disturbing, a 16-year-old female high school student being forcefully ripped from her chair, handcuffed and removed from class. >> give me your hands. >> reporter: the school resource officer ben fields, a deputy since 2004 has been removed from his duties at spring valley high school. >> want to throw up. it makes you sick to your stomach when you see that initial video. >> reporter: more of the disturbing encounter can be heard on a second video clip. a video shows the young woman striking the officer as he begins to remove her from the room. >> when an officer puts his hands on her initiall...

The officer in the video identified as richland county deputy ben fields. he has been placed on administrative leave. police are trying to piece together what led up to the incident. >> the student was asked to leave the class several times by the instructor at the school. assistant principal was there as well. the officer was called on scene to have the student removed from the location. the student refused. the officer acted that you see on the video. again, what we saw was just a tid-bit of what that video showed. will look at what happened that led up to the incident and what happened afte...

That is not a proper technique, and should not be used in law enforcement. based on that, that is a violation of our policy, and approximately 20 minutes ago, school resource over ben fields was terminated from the richland county sheriff's department. when you make an arrest for someone who does not have a weapon, that you need to escape from, you never let go of that subject, you maintain control of the person you're trying to arrest. when he threw her across the room, he lost control of her. that's not acceptable. that's what violated the policy. >> the findings of the training division to ...

>> a south carolina state representative is calling for this deputy to be arrested but as we know with these cases, there's always more to the story. when it comes to the richland school district, officials have now banned officer ben fields from the district in response to the ongoing investigation. but when you watch this, what is the discretion needed for an alleged obstinant student to be removed from the classroom? what's the training? >> the training is a matter of the richland county sheriff's department. our level of responsibility is advocating for our students. no student should be t...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.