CNN anchor Don Lemon is the target of a petition drive to get him fired, after he refused to rush to judgment on the viral video showing Columbia, South Carolina, deputy Ben Fields roughly dealing with a non-compliant student at Spring Valley High School.
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan used the viral-video incident at Spring Valley High School to push President Barack Obama’s campaign to reduce school punishments for black and Latino students.
Friday, hundreds of students–both black and white–at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina walked out of class in support of Ben Fields, the Richland County sheriff’s deputy shown in a viral video forcefully removing a noncompliant student Monday.
Spring Valley High School students walked out of their classrooms on Friday to support school cop Ben Fields, who was fired after a video showed him slamming a black student to the floor.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher stated that he has “sympathy for people in authority, because I think parents just let kids do anything nowadays” on Friday. Maher said that the police officer who bodyslammed a high school student to
Raven-Symons is a liberal black lesbian, which is normally enough to inoculate anyone against anything. But this time, she stepped on The Narrative, defending a white cop who got rough with a black girl in a South Carolina high school.
The View co-host Raven-Symoné defended South Carolina deputy Ben Fields for his actions in a widely-viewed video in which the officer appeared to slam a student down to the ground and drag her out of a classroom at Spring Valley High School on Monday.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott fired Senior Deputy Ben Fields, and said he overreacted when he was attempting to discipline a recalcitrant student at Spring Valley High School. Video footage of the classroom tussle went viral on Monday, prompting an FBI investigation and calls for Fields to be fired.
A student body-slammed the principal of Florin High School in Sacramento during a fight Monday that required police to arrest three students.
Videos of a white deputy roughly pulling a non-compliant black high school student out of her chair and then dragging her on the floor went viral Monday night, just hours after the incident occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over half of Spring Valley High’s students are black.