During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott confirmed that Deputy Ben Fields – the officer who’s come under fire for violently taking down a teenage girl ...

Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields was already suspended after videos of him flipping and tossing a black female student across a classroom went viral online. Fields was told of his firing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said an internal investigation over the Monday incident at Spring Valley High School in Columbia focused on whether Senior Deputy Ben Fields had violated the ...

On that day, Fields' attorney promised that the deputy would one day address the ... School Resource Officer Ben Fields was terminated from the Richland County Sheriff's Department." ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced Wednesday that he fired Senior Deputy Ben Fields over the deputy's actions against a student at a local high school earlier this week. In a video that ...

Deputy Ben Fields of the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, was fired on Wednesday for using excessive force on a teenage girl at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. In his press ...

WLTX-TV, Columbia, S.C. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he could have a decision by the end of Wednesday on whether or not a deputy involved in an incident at Spring ...

Do you know what you would be? Spring Valley High School resource officer Deputy Ben Fields is seen on video flipping the desk of a female student who allegedly refused to leave the classroom.