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Tenured professor suggests killing fired officer Ben Fields

fieldsWhat should be the punishment for a school resource officer fired for what has been called a brutal takedown of a Spring Valley student over a cell phone?  According to George Ciccariello-Maher, an assistant professor at Drexel Univesity, that officer should be killed.

He made the suggestion on Twitter and later deleted the tweets, but not before being captured by Twitchy:

killfields1killfields2Deputy Ben Fields, the officer involved in the arrest, was fired on Wednesday by Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.  But that’s not enough for Ciccariello-Maher.  He went on to suggest:

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https://twitter.com/ciccmaher/status/660273370185904128

Naturally, that didn’t sit too well with some:

https://twitter.com/JonMcPhalen/status/660284989632675840

https://twitter.com/JonMcPhalen/status/660296160700067840

While Field’s actions were seen as overbearing and not up to the expectations of school resource officers, Lott said the student deserves part of the blame.

“When a classroom is disrupted by a student, that disrupts the education process and the students can’t learn and the teachers can’t teach,” he said. “We have to have discipline in our schools.”

Reports also said that the student punched Fields at one point in the scuffle and Lott said she started it.

“We must not lose sight that this whole incident started by this student,” he added. “She is responsible for initiating this action. Some responsibility falls on her.”

One person asked:

https://twitter.com/MarkAWebster1/status/660431470469767168

But apparently not tired enough to take action to put this kind of thing to an end…

Exit question: Wonder if Drexel supports tenured professors who suggest killing fired police officers?

H/T Twitchy

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Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

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