Lawsuit: 2 Missouri school officials slammed girl to ground
Source: Associated Press
Lawsuit: 2 Missouri school officials slammed girl to ground
Updated 6:58 pm, Thursday, April 28, 2016
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit says two white school officials in southeast Missouri slammed a black teenager to the ground three times, injuring her neck and back and requiring hospital treatment.
Judge Craig Brewer granted a change of venue Wednesday in the lawsuit against the Cape Girardeau School District after attorneys for Ta'Brea Harris and her mother, Terri Harris, argued that a fair local trial was impossible since many potential jurors are graduates of the district.
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The lawsuit alleges that after Ta'Brea Harris was involved in a verbal argument with another student while waiting for a school bus on Dec. 11, 2014, then-assistant Cape Girardeau Central High School principal Chris Kase grabbed her and slammed her to the ground. She was 14 at the time.
Athletic director Lance Tollison later approached the teen from behind and slammed her to the ground, grabbed her when she tried to get away and slammed her down again, the lawsuit says.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Lawsuit-2-Missouri-school-officials-slammed-girl-7381715.php
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Principal Chris Kase, Central High School
Lance Tollison, Athletic director, Central High School[/center]
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