The parents of a 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child released video that appears to show a school employee hitting their son in the head and then carrying him upside down by both ankles.
The employee has also since resigned after being placed on administrative leave, Interim Superintendent David Lawrence said.In the short video, Braylen is seen running down a hallway. The school employee chases after the child and then appears to strike him in the head, causing him to fall, the video shows. The employee then appears to carry Braylen upside down by his ankles.[the principal] let us know, it wasn't the full truth," Lindsay said.
“Why was Braylen running away from him like that? Maybe it wasn’t playful,” Lindsay told reporters. “I don’t know. I don’t the before, I don’t the after because they cut that off.” “He wasn’t doing anything wrong. He was running away. He wasn’t going to get anywhere. That building is locked. You could have bear-hugged him, you could have let another teacher do it,” she said, getting emotional. “I don’t know what was going on in that man’s head but my son did not deserve that.”