2017-2018
Yuma Police Department confirmed one of its former officers was arrested for sexual conduct with a minor from 2017-2018 while he was assigned as a neighborhood school resource officer.
#AssaultAtFitzgeraldMiddle
December 2017
A school resource officer deployed his stun gun as a middle school female student was walking away from a fight. The fight occurred as students were being dismissed. The student’s back was turned to the officer. She was handcuffed while on the ground.
#AssaultAtHoechMiddle
December 2017
12-year-old Tyrese Leggitt’s arm was broken in two places after suffering a breakdown in class. Rachel Kozma, Tyrese’s mother said her son was on medication for oppositional defiant disorder. ODD made it harder for Tyrese to snap out of angry emotions. The school claims the students pushed his teacher against the door as he was attempting to leave the classroom.
#AssaultAtKingston
November 2017
The parent of a 17-year-old senior at Kingston High School said her daughter suffered a sprained wrist and facial contusions after she stepped in to help a friend who she believed was being abused by two SROs. The officers were responding to a complaint of trespassing on school grounds when they detained the teens a short distance away from the school building. The parent said that in addition to her daughter’s two injuries, her daughter must now attend night school because with the two officers still on the beat, she is afraid to attend day classes.
#AssaultAtFullerton
November 2017
A former Fullerton Police Department school resource officer is charged with secretly photographing and videotaping up the skirt of a 16-year-old high school student. An internal investigation by the Fullerton Police Department revealed that a school resource officer had taken several photos and videos on his personal cell phone up the skirt of a 16-year-old high school student while conducting a police investigation on school grounds.
#AssaultAtJeffersontown
November 2017
A student-recorded video of three Jeffersontown police officers assaulting a young Black student at Jeffersontown High School went viral. In the video, the three police officers are seen beating, kicking and using their Taser gun while the student was held face down on the floor. Immediately after, the school principal and the police department released statements justifying the police violence experienced and witnessed by students.
#AssaultAtConsumnesOaks
October 2017
During an Elk Grove Unified School District school board meeting, Black parents addressed the school board about allegations on racial discrimination and use of excessive force by school police officers. One parent testified about her son being lifted in the air and thrown across the vice principal’s office at Consumnes Oaks High School and consequently arrested.
#AssaultAtSolisCohen
October 2017
An officer forcibly removed 8-year-old Isaac Gardner Jr. from his classroom, took him into a nearby faculty bathroom and shut the door at Solis-Cohen Elementary. The officer threw the child to the ground, cursing at him and calling him names, all for refusing to leave his art class.
#AssaultAtEagleRidge
October 2017
A 10-year-old immigrant student at a neighboring school district (but located inside the city boundaries of Phoenix) was assaulted by a school police officer hired through the Phoenix Police Department. The student, who is autistic and has an Individualized Education Plan, suffered several injuries, including a dislocated shoulder. He was handcuffed and isolated in the school’s “calm-down” room. The mother, who is undocumented, was called and came to the school, found her son handcuffed, and recorded it with her cell phone.
#AssaultAtOrangeHigh
October 2017
Police Officer Hanifah Davis was recorded slamming Kyasia Sorrells into a storefront and snatching her twin sister Nyasia to the ground by her hair. While he sat on top of both high school students, the school’s principal tried to intervene and was placed in a headlock.
