Lincoln Excessive disrupted by brawl between scholar and employees member, sparking investigation
An altercation between a scholar and college member at Lincoln Excessive Faculty is being investigated by the Leon County Sheriff’s Workplace, based on the Leon County Faculty District and the highschool’s administration.
The combat, which broke out at round 12:30 p.m. Wednesday throughout lunch time, was recorded by a number of college students and shared by involved dad and mom on social media.
Faculty officers say the altercation started after a scholar attacked a corridor monitor and took her cellphone.
The video, circulating on social media and text threads, begins shortly after and exhibits a big crowd of scholars within the cafeteria surrounding a girl and a scholar wrestling on the bottom. The girl, sporting a purple shirt and black pants, seems to kick a feminine scholar, who’s sporting a white shirt, pink jacket and blue denims off of her as she lay on the bottom.
A number of college students surrounding the brawl efficiently break up the combat pulling each people away from one another. After the scholar is pulled away, she walks off, and the employees member stands up and searches the group for her. As soon as she finds her, she engages within the squabble once more, pulling her hair as the scholar then punches her.
The 2 are separated once more, and the particular person recording follows the employees member, who then tells one other scholar that she wants to seek out her cellphone. She seems disoriented.
The chaotic minute-long video has been confirmed to be the ending of the combat; it is not clear how lengthy the scholar and employees member fought for.
Lincoln Excessive Faculty Assistant Principal Jennifer Tibbitts emailed dad and mom by way of the college system’s FOCUS portal at 1:50 p.m. to tell them of the incident.
“As we speak at lunch there was an incident involving a scholar and employees member. Different college employees and our faculty useful resource officers responded instantly. This incident is being investigated by Leon County Sheriff’s workplace and shall be dealt with accordingly,” the message mentioned.
A Leon County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson was not instantly obtainable to supply particulars.
Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil, Colleges Superintendent Rocky Hanna and college board members had introduced Wednesday – earlier than the combat – a tour of district excessive faculties to debate security and safety considerations with college students. A go to to Lincoln Excessive was scheduled for Friday.
Alaijah Brown covers kids & households for the Tallahassee Democrat. She may be reached at ABrown1@gannett.com. Comply with her on Twitter/X: @AlaijahBrown3.
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