LOCKHART, Fla. — The grandfather of a 14-year-old Lockhart Middle School student charged with punching a school employee claims cellphone video of the incident proves the teen is innocent.
Stacy Scott said his grandson, who was not named, had gotten involved in a cafeteria brawl to defend another student who was being bullied.
A cellphone video has surfaced since the incident took place about a week and-a-half ago.
It shows several students attacking a student that Scott claims is his grandson.
An incident report, though, says that the boy hit a school employee twice during the altercation.
Scott said he didn’t know about the fight until other students sent him the video and by the time he got to the school, his grandson was already in custody.
“When I get to the school, they already have him in handcuffs in the back of the police car,” he said.
The school suspended the 14-year-old for 10 days and pending an investigation into the fight, may expel him, Scott said.
He believes the video of the fight will exonerate his grandson and said he was willing to go to court if he had to.
“We got a lawyer on that now, so the video clearly shows that all of that (is) just wrong,” Scott said.
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