Report reveals Black students face 84% of school policing assaults

In October 2015, a Black 16-year-old in Spring Valley High School, South Carolina, was trapped in a headlock, flipped over, and dragged across her classroom by a school police officer when she refused to surrender a cellphone. Meanwhile, her classmates recorded the incident on their phones. One of those videos went viral, and Deputy Sheriff Ben Fields, called “Officer Slam” by students, was exposed.

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