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Thursday 29 October 2015
S.C. sheriff: School officer fired after tossing student
MEG KINNARD and tossing her across a Lott said. Fields had been so, Lott said, and that’s
Associated Press classroom, with the sheriff a school resource officer at when Fields was brought
COLUMBIA, South Caro- saying the officer did not Spring Valley High School. in Monday to remove her
lina (AP) — A white police follow proper procedures The student was being from the class. She again
deputy was fired Wednes- and training. disruptive and refused to refused, and Fields told her
day after video showed Deputy Ben Fields was told leave the classroom de- she was under arrest, Lott
him flipping a black teen of his firing late Wednes- spite being told by a teach- said.
backward out of her desk day morning, Sheriff Leon er and administrator to do She continued to refuse,
and at that point the video
Uncle: Dead Vegas cryotherapy shows the deputy flipping
the teen backward and
spa aide had ownership dream then throwing her across
the room. At that point,
SALLY HO This undated photo provided by Albert Ake is a selfie of his Lott said, Fields did not use This undated photo provided
KEN RITTER niece Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion. proper procedure. by the Richland County (S.C.)
Associated Press Scott Hayes, an attorney Sheriff’s Department shows
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An em- Associated Press for the deputy, said in a school resource officer Senior
ployee who was found fro- statement released to lo- Deputy Ben Fields, in Colum-
zen and dead inside a liq- She also was seen on secu- and sports stars. Athletes cal media that the offi- bia, S.C.
uid nitrogen chamber used rity video locking the salon, who have long used ice cer’s actions were justified
for cryotherapy treatments he said. baths to ease their aches and lawful. He said Fields Associated Press
at a Las Vegas spa liked She was found dead the have turned to whole body wouldn’t have any com-
working there so much that next morning, Oct. 20, af- cryotherapy as a quicker ment because of the fed- tigation at Lott’s request.
she posed for promotional ter a co-worker arrived and way to recover after exer- eral investigation. The confrontation was
photos, her uncle said. noticed Ake-Salvacion’s cise or competition. Lott said he would not re- captured on cellphones
Chelsea Patricia Ake-Sal- car in the parking lot and Police found nothing suspi- lease Fields’ personnel by students, one of whom
vacion, 24, was passionate her belongings in the busi- cious, and the police case file, saying only that some said it all started when
about the treatment that ness. was closed without a crimi- complaints have been the girl pulled out her cell-
subjects users to frigid con- nal investigation. The Clark filed in the past against phone and refused her
ditions for a minute or two “When they found her, she County coroner said de- him, none of which came math teacher’s attempt to
to relieve pain and other was rock solid frozen,” the termining Ake-Salvacion’s from the school district. take it away during class.
conditions. uncle said in a telephone cause of death will await Court records show at least “She now has a cast on
She planned to spend an- interview from his home in the results of toxicology three complaints, though her arm, she has neck and
other year working at Re- Reno. tests in coming weeks. Fields prevailed in two of back injuries. She has a
juvenice Cryotherapy be- What killed Ake-Salvacion Nevada Occupational those cases. Band-Aid on her forehead
fore opening a similar busi- hasn’t been determined. Safety and Health investi- Trial is set for January in the where she suffered rug
ness of her own in Hawaii, But her death pointed to gators said Ake-Salvacion case of an expelled stu- burn on her forehead,” Co-
her uncle, Albert Ake, said possible dangers in an in- should not have been us- dent who claims Fields tar- lumbia attorney Todd Ruth-
Tuesday. creasingly popular but ing the cryotherapy cham- geted blacks and falsely erford, who is represent-
largely unregulated treat- ber after hours for personal accused him of being a ing the teen, told ABC’s
“She was a good spirit and ment favored by celebrities use.q gang member in 2013. In “Good Morning America”
loved everyone,” Ake said. another case, a federal on Wednesday.
“She had the true aloha jury sided with Fields after Lott had said Tuesday that
spirit. Aloha is love.” a black couple accused the girl was uninjured in the
But something went wrong him of excessive force confrontation but “may
when Ake-Salvacion went and battery during a noise have had a rug burn.”
in for her own treatment complaint arrest in 2005. A The sheriff suspended Fields
last week, leaving her dead third lawsuit, dismissed in without pay Monday. Lott,
alone inside the chamber 2009, involved a woman who rushed home from an
the size of a phone booth. who accused him of bat- out of town conference
She had texted her boy- tery and violating her rights when the news broke, said
friend that she was taking during a 2006 arrest. that a teacher and vice
a treatment herself after Calls for Fields to be fired principal in the classroom
the store closed, Ake said. began mounting almost at the time felt the officer
immediately after the vid- acted appropriately.q
eo surfaced, and the FBI
began a civil rights inves-
