An Officer Body Slammed a High School Student When She Refused to Leave The Classroom, The Feds Are Now Involved [WATCH]

A South Carolina school resource officer is under scrutiny after he body-slammed a high school student who would not leave a classroom.

In a video captured by a fellow student, the officer walks over to a female student and asks her to get up out of the seat. He then tugs at her so hard he flips the student and the desk over. He then drags her out of the seat and pushes her towards the front of the classroom. All the while, the classroom remains silent. Students look stunned and scared by the altercation.

The officer identified as Ben Fields was called into the Spring Valley High classroom on an account of a "disruptive" student, who would not leave the classroom, tells the Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott to the local news.

"The student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions which she again refused. The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO," said Sheriff Lott.

The school district, on the other hand, is looking into the incident. The district superintendent, Dr. Debbie Hamm, released a statement via Twitter, saying she and the school district are "deeply concerned" regarding the incident as "student safety is and always will be the District's top priority." They are currently working with the sheriff's department regarding investigation.

Officer Fields has since been placed on administrative leave pending further review.

As Mashable reports, journalist Shaun King as well as New York Daily News said "multiple students have claimed that Fields has exhibited intimidating behavior in the past. Fields was also named in a still-pending lawsuit filed in 2014 accusing him of unfairly targeting black students."

Now the federal authorities are also involved after being asked to do so by Sheriff Lott.

"The Columbia FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances surrounding the arrest of a student at Spring Valley High School," FBI Special Agent David Thomas said in a statement Tuesday. " The FBI will collect all available facts and evidence in order to determine whether a federal law was violated. As this is an ongoing investigation, per Department of Justice policy we are unable to comment further at this time."

Since the incident, Superintendent Hamm has also instructed the officer not to return to any school in the district.