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(57,596 posts) Fri Oct 30, 2015, 04:36 PM Oct 2015

Can anybody explain this to me? Because I sure as fuck don't get it. [View all]

Students Walk Out in Support of Fired Deputy

Hundreds of students walked out of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday morning in support of the deputy sheriff who was fired after violently arresting a black student. Students reportedly chanted “Free Fields” in support of Ben Fields, a school resource officer and football coach who was caught on tape forcibly removing a black student from her desk, allegedly because she was disrupting class. The students walked into the school atrium and then returned to class after administrators addressed them.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/10/30/students-walk-out-for-fired-deputy.html?via=twitter_page

http://www.live5news.com/story/30393934/spring-valley-students-stage-walkout-in-support-of-ben-fields

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Can *anybody* explain this to me? Because I sure as fuck don't get it. [View all] Blue_Tires Oct 2015 OP

I'm guessing those kids are from "Fox News" households, cheapdate Oct 2015 #1

I was thinking along those lines too. GoneFishin Oct 2015 #22

Football is important, you know? ghostsinthemachine Oct 2015 #2

Turns out the asshole cop was also the football coach. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2015 #3

Football matters to the students at the Ohio school Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #12

And that's relevant to this case... how? The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2015 #16

You made a sarcastic comment about football. Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #38

My comment suggested that the students who protested the thug cop/coach's firing The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2015 #40

For most football teams winning is all that matters so football players can get away with quite a liberal_at_heart Oct 2015 #25

I was wondering when I watched the video that none of the other students were even LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #4

She lost her mother. He gave her serious injuries to her bkkyosemite Oct 2015 #7

Yes, I know. I was just wondering because normally when something like that is going on LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #15

They are teenagers. Chemisse Oct 2015 #18

I work with and see several teens a day JackInGreen Oct 2015 #30

It must be the jocks that are supporting him then. That makes sense. LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #32

One of them did react Fumesucker Oct 2015 #35

They call him Officer Slam TexasBushwhacker Oct 2015 #14

That abusive SOB needs to go to jail. bkkyosemite Oct 2015 #5

Should they not all be arrested for "disturbing school"? ( n/t ) Make7 Oct 2015 #6

the girl is black and this guy is white JI7 Oct 2015 #8

Oh NP...I am from Texas and I see the reason right away. Rex Oct 2015 #9

It all makes sense now. Chemisse Oct 2015 #19

As pathetic as that may sound... Rex Oct 2015 #20

students at my high school rallied in support of a teacher who grabbed a female geek tragedy Oct 2015 #10

LOL! Yeah they can be. Chemisse Oct 2015 #21

You know, I don't have kids and never wanted any, but sometimes I wish I had them smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #39

good luck with that annabanana Oct 2015 #41

"a school resource officer and football coach" FSogol Oct 2015 #11

The school encourages this, football is part of the official culture Fumesucker Oct 2015 #37

People are dicks. Brickbat Oct 2015 #13

Racist assholes raised on fundy religulon hifiguy Oct 2015 #17

Two possibilities. Igel Oct 2015 #23

He's a football coach? That right there explains it. liberal_at_heart Oct 2015 #24

In a few years, they'll convince these kids to "fight for our freedom." valerief Oct 2015 #26

I didn't realize he was also a football coach. That explains it right there. arcane1 Oct 2015 #27

Popularity contest IMO lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #28

there's always a few brownshirts in every group Locrian Oct 2015 #29

Did Coach Dredd call in back up? JackInGreen Oct 2015 #31

If she was white and he was a black football coach? Tommy2Tone Oct 2015 #33

"High School in Columbia, South Carolina" ronnie624 Oct 2015 #34

Why didn't the remaining school cops body slam them to the ground? rug Oct 2015 #36