South Carolina school officials on Tuesday blasted the school resource officer who was captured on video throwing and dragging a black high school student as “reprehensible" and "unforgivable.”
The Department of Justice said Tuesday it opened a civil rights investigation into the incident at Spring Valley High School.
School board chair James Manning said that as a result, "we are going to...refine our training of our school district personnel" and change "screening and training" of the officers, who are employed by the Richland County Sheriff's Office.
The school will also implement “a diversity task force,” he said.
He also said he filed a request to permanently ban the officer seen in the video, Ben Fields, permanently from district grounds.
His sentiments were echoed by Debbie Hamm, superintendent of Richland School District 2, who said that in nearly 40 years working in the school district, the altercation was “one of the most upsetting incidents I’ve ever experienced.”
She added that the school has separate protocols for how officers handle disciplinary incidents and criminal activity.
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