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October 27, 2015

SC: Video Shows Officer Slamming, Dragging High School Student 
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In Columbia, South Carolina, a series of videos posted to social media
showing a police officer, employed as a school resource officer,
slamming an African-American student to the ground and dragging her have
gone viral. Officer Ben Fields has been suspended from the Richland
County School District amid an outcry over the incident at Spring Valley
High School. The video shows the girl sitting at her desk as Officer
Fields grabs her around the neck and flips both her and her desk to the
ground, before dragging her.

 

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