School Resource Officer (SRO) Ben Fields uses unnecessary force removing a fourteen year old female student from her seat who was “disrupting class by using a mobile device”. Ben Fields approached the student who was unwilling to move, refusing his orders to get up. Then, grabbing her and slamming her backwards onto the ground in front of all her classmates while one recorded the process on their phone.( Townes, C.). The student who recorded the violence quotes, “I’ve never seen anything so nasty looking, so sick to the point that you know, other students are turning away, don’t know what to do, and are just scared for their lives,”. “That’s supposed to be somebody that’s going to protect us. Not
School Resource Officer (SRO) Ben Fields uses unnecessary force removing a fourteen year old female student from her seat who was “disrupting class by using a mobile device”. Ben Fields approached the student who was unwilling to move, refusing his orders to get up. Then, grabbing her and slamming her backwards onto the ground in front of all her classmates while one recorded the process on their phone.( Townes, C.). The student who recorded the violence quotes, “I’ve never seen anything so nasty looking, so sick to the point that you know, other students are turning away, don’t know what to do, and are just scared for their lives,”. “That’s supposed to be somebody that’s going to protect us. Not