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COLUMBIA - A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not follow proper procedures and training. Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields was told of his firing late Wednesday morning, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. Fields had been a school resource officer at Spring Valley High School. Craig Conwell a parent, was angry, imploring school board members to take action and saying Fields should have been fired immediately. "If that was my daughter... that officer being fired would be the least of his worries," Conwell said. "We are sick and tired of black women being abused. You can say it's not racist all you want to."
GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: WHY THE RE-EMERGENCE OF ALEX HALEY’S ROOTS REVEALS SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICA
Only through viewing that past will this nation ever have an understanding of its past and without that critical understanding there is no hope for peace on the frontier of racial relations.