The US pipeline from the school playground to prison yard

By Nick O'Malley
Updated November 8 2015 - 1:08am, first published 1:04am
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP
Images from a video taken by a Spring Valley High School student shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields flipping a girl to the ground and dragging her from the classroom. Photo: via AP

It is not hard to see why the brief grainy phone footage caused such outrage. The violence in it is measured but explosive, the victim passive, the setting jarring,

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