A South Carolina student is manhandled and handcuffed after she allegedly disrupted a class and refused to leave a classroom at a local school. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters Tuesday that the student “bears some responsibility.” Her violent arrest was captured in a video. “If she had not disrupted the school and disrupted that class, we would not be standing here today. So it started with her and it ended with my officer. What I’m going to deal with is what my deputy did,” he said. The sheriff spoke about the existence of another video that purportedly shows the student resisting. “It showed the officer as he puts his hands on her, her punching him,” Lott told CNN, adding that the student’s behavior doesn’t justify what happened after. The school resource officer involved in the incident, Deputy Ben Fields, has been suspended without pay. Lott expects to make a decision within the next 24 hours about Fields’ continued employment — CNN.
