LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Las Vegas Excessive Faculty scholar proven being brutally overwhelmed in the course of a classroom has obtained authorized illustration, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada introduced on Wednesday.
Video of the assault circulated broadly on social media and has since made nationwide headlines. It exhibits the coed being repeatedly punched in her head by one other scholar, as a classroom stuffed with youngsters look on. Within the video, the beating lasts roughly 18 seconds. After roughly 8 seconds, the coed stops lifting her fingers as much as shield herself, and her head lies on the desk in entrance of her. She doesn’t carry her fingers up after the assault ends.
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The scholar has obtained authorized illustration from native lawyer Robert Langford and from Atha Haseebullah, the manager director of the ACLU of Nevada.
“We stay involved about her quick time period and long run well being, and the systemic failures that led us right here,” Haseebullah stated on Twitter.
He stated she “legitimately might have died because of this incident and continues to expertise the bodily toll of being struck by dozens of blows to her head when she was already unconscious.”
The Clark County Faculty District’s police division confirmed {that a} scholar was cited for battery on Feb. 2. CCSD says it can’t touch upon what sort of disciplinary motion was taken because of privateness legal guidelines.
In a assertion following the assault, Superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara stated the district is not going to tolerate violent acts, assaults, and bullying and that “those that select to have interaction in these actions will likely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
Langford stated it’s “crucial that actions like this do not go unchecked.”He referred to as the scenario “horrific” and stated “no scholar ought to ever should expertise what she has been via.”
“Each scholar has the suitable to a protected and respectful studying atmosphere in Nevada, however that turns into mere lip service if a scholar is brutally overwhelmed when merely doing their schoolwork and their households are left with out solutions.”
Haseebullah stated he and the ACLU of Nevada will assist the coed and her mom as they search accountability.
“For Spanish-speaking moms and households, like these of our consumer, trying to get solutions and navigate a system of ‘justice’ within the wake of catastrophe is usually met with unacceptable obstacles as a substitute of decency,” he stated.
Inside the span of the week that the video circulated on social media, information of a number of different violent assaults towards CCSD college students and workers got here to gentle, together with a Mohave Excessive Faculty scholar who was assaulted at a bus cease and had her listening to aids damaged, and a scholar at Legacy Excessive Faculty reportedly attacking a faculty secretary.
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The mom of the Mohave Excessive Faculty scholar advised 13 Motion Information she had opened a case with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division.
13 Motion Information reached out to Langford, the lead lawyer on the case, for additional remark.