This undated photo provided by the Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff's Department shows school resource officer Senior Deputy Ben Fields, in Columbia, S.C. The Justice Department opened a civil rights probe Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, into the arrest of a student who refused to leave her high school math class, after Fields was recorded flipping the girl backward in her desk and tossing her across the classroom floor. (Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff's Department via AP)
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A South Carolina sheriff's deputy seen hurling a student to the ground and then dragging her across the floor in a widely viewed video has been fired, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday. Deputy Ben Fields has been on administrative leave since the Monday incident.
