Post by pavel on May 1, 2016 1:28:43 GMT -6
In May 2014, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, an Abilene school police officer used a pain submission maneuver called an “arm bar” to pick up a 6-year-old kindergarten student and pull him into to class. In February 2015, the same officer choked a 12-year-old student until the boy lost consciousness. Weeks later, the complaint says, the officer “slammed” a 15-year-old student “against a concrete wall and to the ground, and then handcuffed and detained him without cause,” leaving him with scars he still has today.
Now the parents of those children are suing that officer, Barry Bond, along with the City of Abilene and the Abilene Independent School District, saying Bond was never trained for his job policing children, nor was he disciplined after the violent encounters. The parents are represented by a team of lawyers at the firm Akin Gump and the University of Texas School of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic.
The lawsuit casts Abilene as the latest Texas city, after high-profile incidents in San Antonio, Round Rock and Bastrop, where police officers have been caught handling students violently. At least two of the incidents mentioned in the Abilene suit were caught on video. The complaint also details three parents’ frustrated attempts to work with school and city officials to get an apology, see the police officer disciplined, and institute new policies to prevent further violence at the hands of Abilene’s school police.
The families seek damages from Bond, who retired in January, and from the city and school district, for “mental anguish” and “suffering,” among other losses.
Read more: www.texasobserver.org/abilene-school-cop-barry-bond-lawsuit/
Now the parents of those children are suing that officer, Barry Bond, along with the City of Abilene and the Abilene Independent School District, saying Bond was never trained for his job policing children, nor was he disciplined after the violent encounters. The parents are represented by a team of lawyers at the firm Akin Gump and the University of Texas School of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic.
The lawsuit casts Abilene as the latest Texas city, after high-profile incidents in San Antonio, Round Rock and Bastrop, where police officers have been caught handling students violently. At least two of the incidents mentioned in the Abilene suit were caught on video. The complaint also details three parents’ frustrated attempts to work with school and city officials to get an apology, see the police officer disciplined, and institute new policies to prevent further violence at the hands of Abilene’s school police.
The families seek damages from Bond, who retired in January, and from the city and school district, for “mental anguish” and “suffering,” among other losses.
Read more: www.texasobserver.org/abilene-school-cop-barry-bond-lawsuit/