Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters Tuesday that the student seen arrested in a South Carolina classroom "bears some responsibility." Her violent arrest was captured in a video that went viral.

"If she had not disrupted the school and disrupted that class, we would not be standing here today. So it started with her and it ended with my officer. What I'm going to deal with is what my deputy did," he said.

The sheriff spoke about the existence of another video that purportedly shows the student resisting.

"It showed the officer as he puts his hands on her, her punching him," Lott told CNN, adding that the student's behavior doesn't justify what happened after.

"Just because she was wrong in what she was doing doesn't make what he was doing completely right also," the sheriff said.
 

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