Officer Ben Fields is now under FBI investigation after attacking a student at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina after she refused to leave the classroom. He put his arm around her neck and dragged her out her desk onto the floor.
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The incident was recorded by a classmate who has now been arrested and held on $1,000 bond for recording the incident.
Here are the details via Raw Story:
Niya Kenny, 18, told WLTX she was shocked and disturbed when she saw Officer Ben Fields flipping her female classmate out of her desk and pinning her to the ground for refusing to leave class.
“I was screaming ‘What the f, what the f is this really happening?’ I was praying out loud for the girl,” Kenny told WLTX. “I just couldn’t believe this was happening I was just crying and he said, since you have so much to say you are coming too. I just put my hands behind my back.”
Kenny’s mom, Doris Kenny, said her daughter was just standing up for the girl and said Field’s actions were excessive.
Niya Kenny was charged with “disturbing school,” which her mother questions.
“Who was really disturbing the school?” Doris Kenny asked. “Was it my daughter or the officer who came in to the classroom and did that to the young girl?”
A lot of people are defending the cop’s actions and it’s disgusting to me. This grown man should not have handled this young girl like that. What happened to the days where school authorities would call your parents if you weren’t behaving? Kenny being arrested is just totally uncalled for. The school can’t get mad that they have been exposed. The reactions from the teacher and other students in the classroom make me think this happens very often at this school.