A disagreement over a child using their phone in a restroom ended with a middle school student in handcuffs.
It started when the principal caught the child using their cell phone in the restroom. The principal told the child they would get three days of detention for using their phone during school hours.
The principal took the child to the office and called their parent to inform them of the detention. The child then said it wasn’t going to detention and ran out the front door.
The school called officers to help them find the child, but a teacher found the child walking down the road and started walking the student back to school. A deputy met up with them along the way and said that the child was being disrespectful and refusing to go back to school.
The child cursed, pushed the teacher’s arm away, and tried to run. The deputy grabbed the child and took them to the ground. The child was handcuffed, placed in the back of a cruiser, and taken to the Lawrence County Detention Center. A deputy sustained scrapes to their hand while arresting the child.
