Out Of Control Teenager or is it about A Police Officer Who is Out of Control ( Archived) (45)

secretagent09: (CNN)The South Carolina deputy who slammed a disruptive student on the floor and tossed her several feet has been fired.

Other students in the classroom at Spring Valley High School caught the incident on video.

Fields violated police regulations when he threw the girl, the sheriff said.

Fields was the Spring Valley High School resource officer whose actions Monday were recorded by students and ignited a firestorm on social media. Among the criticisms: his admitted use of "muscling techniques" to get the student out of her chair.

"When a classroom is disrupted by a student, that disrupts the education process and the students can't learn and the teachers can't teach," Lott said. "We have to have discipline in our schools."

"We must not lose sight that this whole incident started by this student," he said. "She is responsible for initiating this action. Some responsibility falls on her."

The videos show the officer standing over the student, seated at her desk. He puts his arm near her neck, then yanks her backward. The desk, which is attached to her chair, tips over; the student crashes backward onto the floor.

But Fields didn't let go, lifting her slightly off the ground. She flies out of her desk and slides several feet across the floor.

But Todd Rutherford, the student's attorney, said his client now has to wear a cast on her arm.

The girl also suffered a bruise on her head, her attorney said.

Fields was called in, Kenny said. The school resource officer asked the girl to leave the classroom with him.

Kenny said the officer moved the girl's laptop off her desk.

"He grabbed her arm, and he put his arm around her neck at first. So that's why you actually see her -- if you get the right video -- then you'll see her trying to swing at him," Kenny said.

"And at that point, he just flipped the desk back and grabbed her out of it and threw her. And that's when you see her rolling across the floor."

Kenny said she and other classmates had their cell phones recording because of the officer's reputation.

Her attorney, Simone Martin, said she's been told "by a number of the students that he is referred to as Officer Slam as opposed to Officer Fields. And that's telling."

The sheriff said the FBI is also to be the lead agency in a criminal investigation.

If an officer decides to make an arrest, he or she "can use whatever force is necessary," said Houck, a retired New York police detective.

"So if you don't comply with my wishes," he said, "then I can do whatever it takes to get you out of that seat and put handcuffs on you."

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Houck said the officer shouldn't have been called in to deal with the student in the first place.

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"Too often, these teachers in these schools are calling on the cops because they have a disruptive student in the classroom," he said. "This is not a cop's job."

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But South Carolina has a law that muddles the role of school resource officers, the sheriff said.

"Unfortunately, our Legislature passed a law that's called 'disturbing schools,' " he said.

"If a student disturbs school -- and that's a wide range of activities, 'disturbing schools' -- they can be arrested. Our goal has always been to see what we can do without arresting the kids. We don't need to arrest these students. We need to keep them in schools."

CNN's Dana Ford, Kevin Conlon, Chandler Friedman, Wes Bruer, Greg Botelho, Lisa Thompson and Sonia Moghe contributed to this report.