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Letters: Children must learn to obey authority

Student video shows then-Richland County senior Deputy Ben Fields trying to remove a student who refused to leave her Spring Valley High School math class.
Student video shows then-Richland County senior Deputy Ben Fields trying to remove a student who refused to leave her Spring Valley High School math class. Associated Press

The Spring Valley situation is another example of disobedience to authority.

This young lady just outright refused to obey the authority, and it looks like she will walk away with it and probably get some money for it.

Look at Ferguson, North Charleston and the young kid shot in the Upstate; they all refused to do as told.

Now the deputy lost his job, and the class sees that you don’t have to obey any authority.

We will probably read about his young lady sometime in the obituaries; there are consequences for this kind of behavior.

Julius (Leroy) Brown

Hartsville

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 1:18 PM with the headline "Letters: Children must learn to obey authority."

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