In the fall of 2015, a 16-year-old girl named Shakara was removed from her math class by school officer Ben Fields with such force that footage of the incident went viral. “Are you gonna come with me, or am I gonna make you?” asks Fields in a video, before flipping over Shakara’s desk with her in it, landing the teenager on her back with the desk overturned above her.
The officer then yanks Shakara out of the desk by an arm and a leg, drags her halfway across the crowded classroom and orders her to put her arms behind her back.
Shakara and another girl — Niya, who had encouraged her classmates to record what would happen to Shakara when she saw it was Fields entering the room — were then arrested for “disturbing school,” a vaguely defined.
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