“I was so angry. I just want something done with this officer that did this because he could have killed my grandson.'
The family of a Rockford teen claims he was body slammed by a police officer at school and now has a brain injury. Now, they're filing a federal lawsuit.Attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a Rockford family that says their loved one was body slammed at his high school by a police officer. They say a crime was committed as well as an attempted cover-up.
School security video shows a student in the hall of Auburn High School in Rockford last fall and an adult trying to stop him. An attorney for Parris Moore's family says the 14-year-old had walked out of class, upset but not violent, on that day in September 2021.Next, the video shows a school liaison officer arriving to the incident. Hofeld says Parris, a not yet 5-foot-tall freshman, wasn't resisting or fighting.
"If he can do that to a child in a school where there’s cameras, what can he do to a child out on the street?" said Stephene Moore at a news conference Wednesday morning in Chicago. The teen's family announced they filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the officer, the city of Rockford, the school district and more. They say the body slam left Parris with a traumatic brain injury, permanent cognitive deficits, PTSD, and depression.Adding to their frustration, his grandmother says the day this happened, the school told her Parris slipped and fell during a scuffle.
"I was so angry. I just want something done with this officer that did this because he could have killed my grandson. And I don't – it's not even a matter of just him. Any other child. He has no basis to be in the schools, using force like that. He could have killed my grandson. I definitely want him charged," said Morgan.
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