Ben Fields: School officer who threw girl across classroom is fired

A school resource officer filmed dragging a female student from her desk and throwing her across a classroom has been fired.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday that Senior Deputy Ben Fields has left the force. He had been a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School.

He had previously concluded that the force used on the student was not based on training or acceptable procedure.

The girl’s attoey, Todd Rutherford, told ABC’s Good Moing America that she ‘has a cast on her arm, she has neck and back injuries’.

He says she also has a bandage on her forehead because of the rug bu.

The video shows Mr Fields asking a girl to rise from a classroom desk. Another adult is standing nearby.

The girl stays seated, so the officer wraps a forearm around the child’s neck.

Fields has been sacked (Picture: Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Department via AP)

The officer then tips the attached chair and desk backward until she slams to the floor.

He then throws the girl several feet across the floor to the front of the classroom where he ordered her hands behind her back and applied handcuffs.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott claims he was removing a pupil who had been disruptive in class.