Watch: Student Who Filmed Officer Dragging Girl Asks, How Did A Cop ‘Let It Get To That Point?’

The student who filmed a police officer’s violent arrest of a teen girl speaks with a local reporter, explains what happened, and asks all the right questions.

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Tony Robinson is the Spring Valley High School student who filmed Columbia, South Carolina sheriff’s deputy Ben Fields‘ attack on a fellow student. Fields, as Robinson’s video, and other videos, show, grabbed the unnamed female student by the neck, flipped her over while she was still in her desk, then dragged her across the classroom floor before arresting her.

Robinson spoke with local CBS affiliate WLTX Monday evening (video above), offered insight and details into what happened before and during the incident, and asked, “How? How did you even let it get to that point where you’re throwing a girl – a girl – across the room, literally by her hair, by her clothes? It’s not right,” Robinson said.

“It was definitely a scary experience,” he told WLTX, and explained that the student had taken her cell phone out for a short time, and refused to hand it over to the teacher, who subsequently called in a vice principal. It was the vice principal who then called Officer Fields.

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“She really hadn’t done anything wrong,” Robinson said. “She said that she had took her phone out, but it was only for a quick second.”

Robinson also said that the teen was very “apologetic,” and “begging,” apparently to not have the issue escalate.

He says Officer Fields was in the classroom for about three minutes before he began filming, and that the officer did ask the student to get up from her desk.

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“He asked her again, ‘will you move, will you move.’  She said ‘no I have not done anything wrong.; Then he said I’m going to treat you fairly. And she said ‘I don’t even know who you are… And that is where it started right there.”

“When I saw what was about to happen my immediate first thing to think is let me get this on camera,” Robinson said. “This is going to be something that not only I’m I going to be like ‘wow did this really happened at my class’ but just something that everybody else needs to see. This is something that we can’t let this just pass by.”

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“I’ve never seen anything so nasty looking, so sick to the point that you know, other students are turning away, don’t know what to do, and are just scared for their lives,” Robinson added. “That’s supposed to be somebody that’s going to protect us. Not somebody that we need to be scare off, or afraid.”

“That was wrong. There was no justifiable reason for why he did that to that girl.”

 

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Image: Screenshots via Twitter, WLTX