Judge rules against teens in controversial case. A juvenile court judge on June 23 “found it to be true” that two Black teenagers committed misdemeanor battery on a public officer and one made criminal threats in a case that gained widespread attention after a security guard at William Pete Knight High School broke one girl’s wrist last September. [The Final Call]
And what crime did these teenagers commit, exactly? The article explains:
The incident began when Chris Niemeyer, a school security guard, confronted Miss Mervin on Sept. 18 saying she had not picked up enough birthday cake that spilled on the ground in the school’s lunch area.
News media released footage showing Mr. Niemeyer restraining the girl, and then leaping upon another student, Joshua Lockett, who was videotaping the incident until he was attacked by security guards trying to take the camera. When Ms. Lockett begged them to let him go, she said, another guard attacked her, fracturing her arm.
Mr. Niemeyer, who was suspended with pay shortly after the incident, was cleared of any wrongdoing by a sheriff’s investigation and has returned to work.
The only criminal threat I see in this case is the fact that Niemeyer is still walking around loose. Of course he’s a government employee, he’s legally entitled to brutalize the inmates in that public school all he likes with the assurance that the worst “discipliine” he might face for viciously attacking the students is a paid vacation. It’s hard to imagine a better case for why students should bring guns to school.
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