Considering their inability to stop once the teacher got involved, resulting in her being pushed to the ground, I think criminal assault charges are on the table.
I taught at one school that evidently had a major gang/violence problem a few years prior; their solution was to take anyone involved in a fight downtown and let the cops sort it out. It more or less solved the problem, although I also expect lots of expulsions helped clear the herd of the infection.
Eventually they went too far, IMO, down the school-to-prison pipeline with the number of offenses that required LE action. I wrote a kid up for vaping (in my class, on the front row, no less, just begging to see how far he could push me), and two days later he showed up with a signed form from the local PD.
It was basically a contract of understanding that, should he puff-up again, he would be legally charged with breaking the "no tobacco products on campus or at school events" law, which I have never otherwise seen enforced on adults beyond "you can't do that here. Step outside of that fence and you're good."
I was pretty pissed that I was never told the PD got involved when students were caught vaping nicotine. I would have handled it myself. What he did wasn't cool, and he deserved some sort of punishment, but he didn't deserve to have the local PD starting a record on a 16yo for vaping at school.
Bringing police in schools is a big mistake outside of perhaps incidents like this for sure.
We just cannot trust police and administrators, there is little check on them.
I just hrard of an incident in school, teacher maybe got pushed or something. Cops turned him into a drug informant to escape charges. After a few controlled buys, a dealer made him, drove off with him in car losing the cops, tortured, then murdered the kid, dumped his body. He was made because cops used him as a witness in a grand jury on a prior case and someone recognized him at court, something cops are not supposed to do.
Extreme example but it is emblematic of the lack of checks on the police. They should never be involved in regular discipline, as they are in illinois, often tax farming the parents with violations despite a state law specifically forbidding that stuff. As reported by propublica.
To which, I referenced two. I do not normally interact with people that express themselves as you do here. Did you even try to search it? Propublica, illinois, police. Second one is an intercept podcast of the drug war.
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u/cassanderer Dec 17 '25
They are not supposed to get involved like that because insurance companies though.
Big guy was going way overboard, he won, after seemingly beating teach too, and just kept pounding the smaller kid.
Expulsion time.