October 2017
Parents were outraged when a video surfaced of a campus police officer body slamming a 6th grade male student after breaking up a fight.
#AssaultAtEdRawlinsonMiddle
#AssaultAtNorthwood
August 2017
An autistic student at Northwood High School in Caddo Parish left his classroom to go to the bathroom. On his way back, he started engaging in stimming behaviors, a repetition of movements that is common in kids with autism. He lingered in the hallway, rubbing against the wall, cupping his ears and closing his eyes. The school’s cop arrived and had his taser out as administrators engaged in a struggle with the student. The student was struck with thousands of electric volts, sending him tumbling to the ground. The student peed himself, either out of fear, or as a result of the random muscle contractions caused by the electroshock. He sat in a pool of his own urine until emergency responders intervened 13 minutes later, per a lawsuit filed against the sheriff’s office.
#AssaultAtSmyrnaWest
August 2017
A video exposed a school resource officer putting a student in handcuffs, pushing him against the wall and pepper spraying him before slamming him to the ground. The officer was charged with assault, perjury, filing a false report, and later fired.
#AssaultAtBagley
May 2017
A school resource officer at Bagley High schools is charged with criminal sexual conduct for sexually assaulting a 15-year old student at the school.
#AssaultAtPiedmontGLOBAL
May 2017
Mere days after the #AssaultAtGabeAllenElementary, a Dallas ISD police officer was caught on camera body slamming 12-year-old Mariana Benton into the ground. The Dallas ISD police officer also pepper-sprayed Benton, which prompted medical attention that revealed her fractured clavicle from the forceful impact to the ground.
#AssaultAtGabeAllenElementary
May 2017
While the school principal choked him with her elbow, Dallas ISD Police tased and handcuffed 7-year-old Yosio Lopez, a special needs student with ADHD and a mood disorder. After Dallas ISD police violently responded to the call that Yosio was banging his head against the wall, he was taken to Dallas Behavioral Healthcare for close to a week, without his mother’s permission.
#AssaultAtHuguenot
April 2017
Two parents filed charges after a video was released of their 17-year-old son, Andre “AJ” Nious, being body slammed by school police officers. A loud scream is heard in the video after a school police officer picked AJ off the floor and slammed his head to the ground. AJ had been in a confrontation with students who had been bullying him.
#AssaultAtWoodlandHills
April 2017
On April 3, Steve Shaulis, a Churchill police officer at Woodland Hills High School assaulted and injured Que’Chawn Wade, a 14-year-old student, after publicly using expletives and derogatory slurs towards him. The offending officer body slammed and repeatedly punched Que’Chawn in the head, causing him to lose two teeth and sustain bruises and multiple lacerations to his face and neck.
#AssaultAtNottingham
February 2017
14-year-old Jabari Boykins, who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, was suspended for refusing to go to class. Upon leaving, Jabari missed his bus and returned to the school. A school police officer approached the student and the school’s vice principal, who are arguing, asking to arrest Jabari for trespassing. A school video shows the police officer shoving and grabbing the student by the neck, striking him, and raising Jabari in the air and slamming him onto the ground. The student suffered a broken left arm.
#AssaultAtSouthGwinnett
February 2017
During an altercation between students, a school police officer used excessive force to pin down one of the students, 16, leaving him bloodied and unconscious. Three students were charged with disruption of a school.
