Remember The School Security Guard Wrist Break Case

November 28th, 2007

I previously did analysis about whether or not the security guard’s actions actually resulted in her wrist being broken here, and will have some further analysis on that soon; but that’s not what this post is about.

What it is about: A week ago two female students were formerly charged, along with a male student that had already been charged; and the security guard walks Scott free.

Unbelievable!

The student who is seen in a camera phone video being bent over a table and cuffed for not picking up cake fast enough, Pleajhia Mervin, was charged with “one count of assault and one count of battery against a public school employee, both misdemeanors”; according to the L.A. Times

The sister of the student who filmed the assault and jumped in to help her 14 year old brother when he was attacked by guards, Kenngela Lockett, “was charged with one count of battery against Niemeyer(the security guard)”, according to the same article.

Still not one detail of what they did to constitute these crimes, much less any proof; and zero explanation of why it was okay for police officers to jump on 14-year-old Joshua Lockett simply for filming, and how could he be charged with crimes for being attacked.

The L.A. Times article also states that

“Prosecutors earlier charged Joshua Lockett with two felonies stemming from the incidents, including one count of threatening a public officer, as well as one misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. All three students have pleaded not guilty. Their next court date is Jan. 7.”

These are all the typical type fallacious charges the police put on someone after they have attacked them or falsely arrested them. Basically, he was supposed to take their beating and not say a word.

Both national and local activist continue to be completely deficient in responding to this very shady looking prosecution that reeks of typical abuse of authority and criminalization of Black children.

They haven’t so much as amassed any sort of national information campaign. There’s no website and no communication of information from the ground to activist who might support this cause as far as I can see.

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2 Responses to “Remember The School Security Guard Wrist Break Case”

  1. aj on November 28th, 2007 9:03 pm | link

    Unfortunately many of us turn a deaf ear to these situations until it touches home. More trumped up charges against black youth. SMH. Every city needs to have a core set of activist to take on this type of nonsense - oh I forget we do have the NAACP - I guess this has not appeared on the radar yet.

  2. D. Yobachi Boswell on November 28th, 2007 10:28 pm | link

    LOL @ The NAACP, good one.

    That is the way it should be as far as the core set of activist. Iv’e tried to set up what I call a rapid response team in Nashville. It hasn’t quite come together yet; but we do have some capacity to do it as is if we really needed to.

    Again, it’s up to everyone of us to take it upon ourselves to organize locally. That’s the genesis of any movement that we’re going to have.

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