The white South Carolina deputy who threw a black student across a high school classroom has been fired for using inappropriate force, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday.
"The maneuver that he used was not based on the training or was acceptable," Lott said of Senior Deputy Ben Fields, who had worked as an officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia for seven years.
"That is not proper technique and should not be used in law enforcement."
However, Lott said, the student was still to blame for being insubordinate and disrespectful to her teacher and for refusing the orders of the teacher and a vice principal to leave the classroom.