{"id":11429,"date":"2015-10-28T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:43:36","slug":"s-c-deputy-out-of-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11429","title":{"rendered":"S.C. deputy out of a job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ben Fields is now a former South Carolina sheriff’s deputy.<\/p>\n

I’ve got to hand it to Sheriff Leon Lott for acting swiftly and decisively in terminating Fields for tossing a high school student across the room in an altercation that erupted at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C.<\/p>\n

We’ve all seen the video. It involves — yes, that’s right — an African-American student and a white law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n

Video shows brutal response<\/a><\/p>\n

A female student was disrupting a class. Her teacher told her to put her cell phone away. The girl refused. The teacher called a school administrator. The girl continued to disobey instructions to put the phone away. Then the call went out to Fields, a Richland County deputy sheriff serving as a school resource officer at Spring Valley.<\/p>\n

How did Fields respond. The burly deputy picked the girl out of her chair and threw her across the room.<\/p>\n

That’s where the deputy messed up, according to Lott.<\/p>\n

Surely the girl needs to be punished for her part in escalating the altercation.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Lott, though, acted appropriately in terminating Fields. Lott informed the media this morning that deputies receive ample training on de-escalating tensions. Fields, shall we say, did quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens next to the girl remains in the hands of the school and her parents.<\/p>\n

It appears to me that she needs a visit to the proverbial woodshed … which is a task that belongs to Mom and Dad.<\/p>\n

With all the talk these days about slow response from law enforcement agencies to situations such as this, it appears that Sheriff Lott has listened and has acted.<\/p>\n\n

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Ben Fields is now a former South Carolina sheriff’s deputy. I’ve got to hand it to Sheriff Leon Lott for acting swiftly and decisively in terminating Fields for tossing a high school student across the room in an altercation that erupted at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. We’ve all seen the video. It … Continue reading S.C. deputy out of a job<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5567,5565,5566],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-ben-fields","tag-leon-lott","tag-richland-county-sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11431,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}