Student walkout backs fired deputy at S.C. school

[NaturalHigh]

About 100 students at a South Carolina high school walked out of class briefly Friday to show support for a school resource officer fired after video showed him throwing an uncooperative black female student across the floor, according to local media and Twitter feeds.

The students walked out of classes at Spring Valley HIgh School in Columbia, S.C., around 10 a.m. and gathered in the atrium to express their views on the firing of Deputy Ben Fields.

Some in the crowd — which included both black and white students — wore T-shirts reading "Free Fields" or "#BringBackFields."

Some students had originally said their intent was to walk out of the building, but the students did not leave the campus, WLTX-TV reports.



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[bumprstickr]

1. Fields fired himself. He is to blame.

[JackInGreen]

2. Coach Dredd has fans

None of them remotely fit for America. Only mega-city 1.

[Yo_Mama]

29. Well, he was a coach there, and he couldn't have acted this way most the time, or

he would have been out long since.

So I guess I can understand this, in a way.

[surrealAmerican]

4. how ironic

They could walk out of class to protest only because there was nobody there to assault them for trying to walk out of class.

[Starry Messenger]

5. Not much of a group.

The school has about 2000 students, AFAIK.

Glad the brute was fired.

[former9thward]

33. For a 100 HS students to organize a demonstration

that defies authority is an accomplishment. If you use your standard then the anti-Iraq war marches (back when anti-Iraq war marches were fashionable) were minuscule compared to a population of 310 million.

[NaturalHigh]

34. Good point.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Now HERE'S a case of genuine "Stockholm Syndrome".

[Hortensis]

24. He was also a popular coach and got along well with some students.

What's the word for excusing "one-of-our-own's abuse of OTHERS" syndrome?

[brush]

26. Nailed it! So true.

[stage left]

7. I can't believe any of those students

would defend this guy.

[Recursion]

12. I'm pretty sure at that age I wanted some other students body slammed

Particularly if they were interrupting class. I don't think it's weird that some students support it, only if they don't grow out of that by the time they're 30 or so.

[Yo_Mama]

30. Yeah - but they are also reacting to his better side.

And he must have had one, or he wouldn't have been there.

Forget the students - if he normally acted that way, the teachers would have been hysterical over it.

I keep coming back to what must have been on the teacher's mind as the class descended into epic chaos with a student being flung around the classroom like that.

[Lancero]

14. Given the numbers of students at the school...

It having a hundred racist and sexist cop defenders isn't a suprise.

[stage left]

16. Yes,

It's really a low number since there are two thousand students in the school.

[TipTok]

18. Maybe they know the girl personally...

... And decided she is a negative influence at their school.

[NaturalHigh]

25. I think it's worth noting that the teacher and principal supported the deputy.

[mercuryblues]

31. and they

are now on paid leave.

I can not wrap my head around the teacher. He did not know how to handle this? I have a harder time understanding the people like those students who support Officer Slam. Some actually believe she deserved it, and should now be expelled.

[MH1]

32. Pretty dumb to accept violence just because it happened to someone else

and "they deserved it".

I guess it's possible that 100 out of 2100 are that stupid.

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. He's the football coach, too.

And it's the South...where football is damn near a religion.

[Rochester]

8. Are they all white preppies?

[NaturalHigh]

15. As noted above:

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"Some in the crowd — which included both black and white students — wore T-shirts reading "Free Fields" or "#BringBackFields."

[Lancero]

17. "Which included both" leaves out specifics - Could be 99 to 1, and it'd still be correct.

[Jesus Malverde]

9. Interesting...nt

[romanic]

10. Very interesting.

But regardless Fields was overly aggressive with the girl. If the girl was swinging and kicking at him, then physical force should be the last resort but he went straight for the neck grab and throw. If I were a student, I wouldn't be wholly supportive of someone so eager to be aggressive.

[Tipperary]

11. To use an old phrase -

this just blows my mind..

[oberliner]

13. It is interesting reading what the students there have to say

The prevailing sentiment being that they will be glad when the attention around this incident and the news reporters hovering around school are gone. They seem to take a lot of pride in their school and don't want it to be known for this. Feelings about Fields himself appear to be mixed.

[Eleanors38]

22. It would be. Good luck finding that. nt

[oberliner]

28. Found some of it on twitter

Who knows what to believe when it comes to that stuff though.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

19. The freaking video don't lie. He was fired for failing to follow policy. Go back to class until...

...you have something legitimate to defend.

[Jim Beard]

20. Isn't the cop some type of athletic coach?

Athletics always wins. Powerful.

[Rex]

23. Bootlickers in training.

Young authoritarians...the state is going to LO-VE them when they become old enough to be human capital! LO-VE!

[brush]

27. There's a percentage of them in every population group

And many adolescents of that age adapt views of their parents. It's not until later that they begin to form their own opinions.

Alas, teabaggers and wingers unfortunately have to come from somewhere.