In a sort-of continuation of what I posted for the last blog, police officer Ben Fields of Spring Valley High School in Richland, South Carolina has been fired for his violent assault of an African-American female student (who is 16 years old, so her name has not been released). Technically, the assault was an arrest, but when arresting a high school student who has not been accused of any real problem (talking on her phone during class and refusing to leave) and then is showing only slight non-violent resistance to the officer, you don't grab her by the throat, choke her while flipping her desk (with her still in it) upside down, and dragging her across the room by her hair before punching her and sticking her in handcuffs on the floor. A humiliating experience for the young woman because this likely high-school-bully-who-never-matured decided it would be okay to treat her like this, not knowing that students had been filming the events on their phones.
It is very fortunate that at least one officer who as committed a violent assault on a minor (the violence may very well have been racially motivated) has had to face at least some consequences for his unjustifiable actions.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/28/us/south-carolina-school-arrest-videos/
This is something that I believe is very necessary. What he did was highly inappropriate
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