#AttackAtSpringValleyHigh: S.C. High School Student Forcefully Removed by Sheriff's Deputy; --- "I Think BOTH Parties Are Wrong in the Situation"

I know I'm late on this, and that I may have different opinions on this article, but here it goes anyway.

You know the incident in which a sheriff's deputy assaulted a student (while in her desk seat) as classmates watched at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
In the video (now of several taped in the class at the time) that went viral, Deputy Ben Fields, working as the school's resource officer, was seen struggling with a female student after she refused to leave her classroom. He then knocks he over to the floor, and yanks her out of her seat. This caused Fields to lose his job and be shunned into controversy.

Here's the clip that started this mess.


Here's what I think: I think both parties are wrong in the situation.

Fields (obviously) did wrong by using force to remove the student from her seat. He shouldn't have done that at all, and should've stayed calm and asked for anyone of higher authority to help take care of this in a more dutiful and sane manner. But he didn't do that, and because of his actions, he deserved to get fired and at least some of the backlash he received on social media. I don't care if the deputy did his job, or that he isn't like other police officers who did brutality in similar ways; she's still a child, and what he did was wrong!

On the other (yet same) hand, the student is also wrong.
She was asked by her teacher to put her cellphone away in class and do her schoolwork. She decided not to and continued anyway. She did wrong by being defiant. Plus, she started the mess with Fields by punching him in the chest area while he had to do his job (at first).
Did she deserve to have herself thrown backwards to the floor in her desk like that by a police officer? Hell no. Did she deserve to get punished for not doing what she was told. Hell yeah! So in a way, she got herself in this debacle, and does deserve some criticism for her actions, as well as indirectly causing a police officer. Had she not stayed to herself and listened to her teacher in the first place, she wouldn't have gotten herself flung backwards like somersault gymnast at the Olympics, and hit the floor harder than Michelle Williams on 106 & Park.


I have a theory or two for all of you:
If a black police officer was in Officer Fields' position, would there have been as much controversy as there have been from this incident? If you said "yes", then you really haven't been paying attention. Sure, the guy would've been fired, but that would've happened after days of defense and sympathy toward the officer for just doing his job and the girl getting criticized for not following directions or listening to someone of authority.
And if this happened to a white girl instead of a black girl like it did here, only white viewers of the news and social media would be truly outraged, with only some black people joining in on the backlash.

In the end, this school police officer is out of a job,
and this student is a fool for sticking to her guns.

Police Brutality has officially reached ridiculous levels.