Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Sitting While Black

Video of a South Carolina sheriff’s deputy manhandling a student in a high school classroom has added to simmering racial tensions among parents.

The video shows a school monitor reported to be Ben Fields – who is also a Richland county sheriff’s deputy, confronting a black female student.

When she refuses to leave her seat in a classroom at Spring Valley High, he tells her: “I’ll make you.” He wraps his arm around her neck, flips her desk backward, then drags her across the floor. He arrested both the girl, and a male student.

The sheriff’s department has placed Fields on administrative leave while it investigates the case.

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Fields has a history of alleged aggression during arrests. According to federal court papers a man named Carlos Martin sued Fields for pepper spraying him and roughing up his wife after he pulled his car into a parking lot playing loud music. The suit ended in Fields’s favor.

  Guardian
I can't help but think that the paucity of real consequences for police shootings and other brutality encourages more of the same.

It's quite a jarring video.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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