Videos circulating on social media appear to show the principal of North Carolina’s Anson High School strangling a student, prompting the Wadesboro Police Department to begin investigating the incident.
The fight happened last Tuesday and apparently started between two students, one of the students told Channel 9 WSOC TV.
In the video, punches can be seen between the two students, and a crowd of students surrounds them, yelling. During the fight, AHS Principal Chris Stinson is seen getting in the way of the two students to try and stop the fight.
However, Stinson then grabs a student and puts a headlock on him and holds him suffocated while dragging him across the room.
Here are the images of the director submitting to the student:
“That’s when he had me in the chokehold until I couldn’t speak, and I couldn’t breathe, my oxygen feels like it’s running out, and everything starts to go black,” said Dequarius Ratliff, the student who was subjected.
“He was trying to move his grip, but it was getting stronger. That’s when my cousin ran up and yelled, ‘Let it go,’” he added to the outlet.
Ratliff, a 10th-grader at the school, said he was taken to the Wadesboro police station. He then went to the hospital after his grandmother picked him up. He admits that he was wrong to fight, but he and his family say that the principal was wrong too.
“You don’t do that to a student,” Pauline Ratliff, Dequarius’s grandmother, told the outlet.
Pauline says that her grandson has a herniated disc in his neck as a result of the strangulation.
But the family also says there wasn’t enough communication from the school, with a family member saying they had to find out about the incident from a friend who saw the video online.
Ratliff’s family added to Channel 9 that they went to the school on Wednesday to try to get answers, but were unsuccessful.
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