{"id":182290,"date":"2015-10-28T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/28\/why-videotaping-cops-needs-to-be-universal\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:44:00","slug":"why-videotaping-cops-needs-to-be-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/28\/why-videotaping-cops-needs-to-be-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Videotaping Cops Needs to Be Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uztUx6TT2eU?rel=0\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Roid Rage<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Does anyone out there think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/richland-county-senior-deputy-ben-fields-fired-over-violent-sc-classroom-arrest\/\">Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields would have been fired if his assault <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">hadn&#8217;t<\/span><\/b> been caught on video tape<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The South Carolina Sheriff&#8217;s deputy captured on video forcefully removing a student from class has been fired, the local sheriff said Wednesday, less than a week after the incident at Spring Valley High School first came to the public&#8217;s attention.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">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.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Fields was told of his firing late Wednesday morning<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;What he should not have done is throw the student,&#8221; Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. &#8220;Police officers make mistakes too. They&#8217;re human and they need to be held accountable, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done with Deputy Ben Fields.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Lott said he wouldn&#8217;t describe Fields as remorseful, but rather sorry it all happened.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course he is sorry that it all happened.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s lost his job.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, in addition to being a school resource officer he was <a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2015\/10\/ben-fields-richland-county-south-carolina-sheriff-deputy-spring-valley-high-school-photo-football-coach-bodybuilder-cop-student-desk-video-complaints\/\">a football and strength training coach<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Fields said in during his deposition for a federal lawsuit filed against him that he is a competitive power lifter, saying it is a \u201csport,\u201d where you \u201ctry to lift as much as you can at one time.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In his deposition, Fields says he does not take steroids, <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">but has not been tested for steroids in the past<\/span><\/b>. He said he has taken supplements, including Creatin, to help build muscles.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.  We believe him when he says that he&#8217;s not juicing. (not)<\/p>\n<p>If his behavior had not been caught on video, this steroid addled loon would still be abusing school children.<\/p>\n<p>For all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/fbi-director-blames-public.html\">wanktastic tirades against police accountability by the FBI director<\/a>, the problem is not cameras, it&#8217;s bad cops and a culture that coddles and protects them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roid Rage Does anyone out there think that Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields would have been fired if his assault hadn&#8217;t been caught on video tape? The South Carolina Sheriff&#8217;s deputy captured on video forcefully removing a student from class has been fired, the local sheriff said Wednesday, less than a week after the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,975,969,1041,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-employment","category-evil","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}