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Sheriff: School officer fired after tossing student in class

October 28, 2015 12:00 AM
This three image combo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student on Monday, Oct, 26, 2015, shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields trying to forcibly remove a student from her chair after she refused to leave her high school math class, in Columbia S.C. (Associated Press)
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Feds probing videotaped arrest of disruptive student

October 27, 2015 12:00 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Justice Department opened a civil rights probe Tuesday into the arrest of a student who refused to leave her high school math class, after a deputy was recorded flipping the girl backward in her desk and tossing her across the classroom floor.
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