South Carolina
Resource officers are commonly trained by police, with each department setting their own standards of force towards students.
Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields has been terminated from his position as a resource officer at Spring Valley High in Columbia, SC after throwing a teenager from her desk for using a cell phone in class.
The South Carolina deputy who addressed reporters Tuesday afternoon doesn't believe resource officer Ben Fields is racist because of his romantic relationship with a Black woman.
Soon after the video was uploaded and gained national attention, Fields was placed on administrative leave. On Tuesday afternoon, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced that Fields was suspended without pay.
On Tuesday, Roland Martin, former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, and the NewsOne Now panel discussed Comey's comments and his explanation that increasing crime rates are a result of cops being afraid to do their jobs because they don't want to be video taped.
As the details emerge of the violent, videotaped assault of a female student at Spring Valley High in Columbia, S.C. continues to unfold, a deeper…
Seven inmates were given a combined total punishment of 7,150 days, or 19.75 years, of solitary confinement at the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).
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Al Roker apologized after tweeting a smiling selfie during the historic flooding in South Carolina over the weekend.
Historic South Carolina flooding has now taken the lives of 11 people, wiped out homes, and left many more without power.
At least seven people are dead due to record-breaking rain and floods in South Carolina that also cut power to 20,000 homes.
A friend of Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed nine African-Americans at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June, has been arrested…