Twitter Reacts to the Assault at Spring Valley High

On Monday, a student at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina was brutally attacked by a police officer, and it was all caught on video. The video showing the black girl being dragged out of her seat by Ben Fields, a senior deputy with the Richland County Sheriffโ€™s Office, immediately went viral. Suggested Reading…

On Monday, a student at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina was brutally attacked by a police officer, and it was all caught on video. The video showing the black girl being dragged out of her seat by Ben Fields, a senior deputy with the Richland County Sheriffโ€™s Office, immediately went viral.

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Reactions on Twitter ranged from people not believing that yet another black student had been violated to others wanting swift and immediate justice.

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According to WLTX, Tony Robinson Jr., the student who filmed the incident, said everyone in the class was frightened and that the student โ€œhadnโ€™t done anything wrong.โ€

โ€œShe really hadnโ€™t done anything wrong,โ€ Robinson said. โ€œShe said that she had took her phone out, but it was only for a quick second.โ€

Fields is currently on administrative duty and has been banned from the school.

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