GoFundMe Supporting Spring Valley High School Victim Raises More Than 40K

Last week, a horrifying video surfaced of Deputy Ben Fields seizing a Spring Valley High School student and throwing her bodily across the room. Fields, who didn't exactly have a stellar record to begin with, has since been fired. Unsurprisingly, the student is taking legal action against the officer and the school. Her lawyer, Tom Rutherford, set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for legal expenses and injuries, and so far it's raised more than $40,000—almost twice the fundraising goal.

On the page, Rutherford wrote:

So far 1,523 people have donated to the fund in just a single day. Rutherford also set up a page for Niya Kenny, the classmate who was arrested and charged with disturbance when she stood up for Fields' victim. According to Kenny's page, the funds raised for her (about $2,000 so far) will go toward "counseling, future educational expenses, and a car."

Needless to say, the outpouring of support goes to show how heinous and unnecessary Fields' actions were. At a press conference Sheriff Leon Lott, Fields' supervisor, said, "his actions were probably something that if he would have done it over again, he would have done it differently." An investigation is ongoing.