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.
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.
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.
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.