Call to Action: Another Racialized Arrest at School « Oh No a WoC (youtube - students, parents protest treatment of student by security_new.mp4 by angryindian)

Call to Action: Another Racialized Arrest at School « Oh No a WoC PhD: "A young black woman was attacked by a Knight High School security guard in Palmdale, CA, for not sufficiently cleaning up the floor after dropping a piece of birthday cake on it. He subsequently broke her arm, then he and his buddy attacked the folks who were using their cell phones to videotape and take pictures of their attack. The mother who complained was herself arrested and is now suspended without pay from her job WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT! The young woman and the two who bore witness to the attack by taking photo and video evidence WERE ALSO ARRESTED for assaulting the officer of the high school security. [In addition to assault charges] The young woman was also arrested for littering as well. The student who took the crude images with a cellphone has posted to youtube. Like the Burma protesters that got out the Burma incident overnight before the Myanmar government shut them down, youtube may in fact be one way in which the revolution is in fact digitized."

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Palmdale - Knight High School Update II

So I went looking for update information on the cake incident, beyond what I have already put in the original post and the update. I had hoped to report that the students records (both school & police) had been erased clean of this incident, the charges and record against the mother were dropped, the security guard was fired, and the security team was placed under a citizen’s accountability board. Well, it looks like the case is going to have to go to court because the school has remained silent beyond the initial statement referenced in the previous post & now there is a counter protest movement for “Justice for Palmdale Highschool.”

They did hold their regularly scheduled District Meeting Oct. 2. The NAACP attended and attempted to get answers not only about the cake incident but other incidences that have been aware of in the last three years. Their report corroborates the report of the organizers of the parent protest.

In response to accusations, parents like the one quoted in my previous post who claim any act of violence is justified in a school “overrun with gang bangers and hoodlums,” organized a counterprotest. The Antelope Valley News Talk 1470 am radio station released the school’s main phone number and the following plea:

Please support Pete Knight High School! Please if you are concerned about justice a phone call voicing your support . . . to the staff and school district, they are being hammered by idiots from all over the country.