A video is rapidly going viral of a school resource officer in South Carolina choking and slamming a high school student who was sitting at her desk.
The incident took place on Monday at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, and was captured on camera by two different students from different angles.
"The student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions which she again refused," Sheriff Leon Lott told WIS-TV. "The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO."
The videos captured the teenage girl sitting at her desk in her classroom when Officer Ben Fields approached and grabbed her before wrapping his arm around her throat. The desk flips over as he throws her to the ground and out of view of the camera.
Reporter Shaun King stated that both students and graduates have told him that Fields has been brutal like this for years.
The girl had reportedly been verbally disruptive of the class, not violent.
Following the video going viral, the school district announced that Officer Fields has been "banned" pending the outcome of an investigation.
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