A 15-year-old Louisiana excessive schooler was charged with a hate crime after video confirmed him throwing cotton balls at a Black scholar earlier than whipping him with a belt.
The white teenager, who has not been named, faces easy battery and hate crime costs for the March 9 incident within the cafeteria of Vandebilt Catholic Excessive Faculty in Houma.
Video taken by one other scholar and posted to social media reveals the white teen, a ninth grader, throwing cotton balls on the Black scholar, who’s sitting at a desk in a crowded cafeteria. The white scholar then strikes the Black scholar 4 occasions with what seems to be a small belt, The New York Times reported. The Black scholar then jumps up from his seat and pushes the opposite scholar away.
Police investigated the video and arrested the white scholar, who was then booked into the Terrebonne Parish juvenile detention middle, Sheriff Tim Soignet stated in a press launch.
“I’m more than happy that the varsity took a entrance stand on this,” Soignet stated Wednesday, according to USA Today. “Once we acquired the grievance, we instantly put our detectives on it. They labored by means of the weekend so we may get up to now and impact an arrest on that juvenile.”