RT NewsA high school student suffered a brain injury and remains in a medically-induced coma after a Texas sheriff’s deputy tasered him without cause following a skirmish in a school hallway, the boy’s mother claims in court.
Maria Acosta has sued Bastrop County, its school district and Randy McMillan, a Bastrop County sheriff’s officer and school resource officer, according to Courthouse News.
Noe Nino de Rivera, Acosta’s son, suffered a “severe brain hemorrhage” when McMillan Tasered him after the boy, known as N.N., had intervened to halt a fight between two females at Cedar Creek High School on Wednesday, November 20, Acosta claims in a federal lawsuit.
“I’m called to the school and they say you have to get to the hospital,” Acosta told KXAN last week. “(They said) your son is alive. I say, ‘what do you mean he’s alive?'”
Her son “stepped in to break up the fight” before police could arrive, Acosta says in the suit.
McMillan and another security officer arrived to break up the fight upon being called by school officials. Acosta says her son “diffused the situation” by the time they arrived on the scene.
McMillan told N.N. to step away, and he did so with his hands raised, but McMillan tasered him nevertheless, Acosta alleges.
Immobilized by the Taser, N.N. fell and struck his head on the floor, at which point McMillan handcuffed the unconscious boy, 17.
Acosta says school officials initially “delayed in calling for medical assistance even though N.N. was in an obvious emergency medical situation.
“Eventually, school officials called for EMS and N.N. was airlifted to St. David’s Medical Center, where he immediately underwent surgery to repair a severe brain hemorrhage and was placed in a medically induced coma.”
The lawsuit claims that “N.N. remains in a coma, and has not been able to communicate with his family since his hospitalization.”
The Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office says N.N. made aggressive moves, leading to the tasering.
Acosta is alleging overreaction and abuse. One student echoed that sentiment to KXAN.
“There was a crowd watching and the kid was just trying to get the officers to listen to him,” said the student. “When he shot the Taser, there was a crowd, and others could have been hit.”
Acosta says the deputy officer was never in harm, and that the defendants allowed him to work at Cedar Creek High School even after he Tasered another student a year ago. That history created a“foreseeable danger” that led to N.N.’s injuries, she says.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, McMillan has never received complaints for using excessive force, and he’s never been disciplined for using excessive force.
Acosta is seeking medical expenses and damages for use of excessive force, failure to train and discipline and civil rights and education code violations.
KXAN reports an investigation is underway, and that McMillan has been placed on patrol as it progresses.
Acosta said N.N. had expressed interested in joining the Marines. He may still face charges once the investigation is final.
Wow! Sounds the Round Rock, TX police.
So basically, the Cedar Creek school situation was like this:
N.N.: “It’s all settled officer. Everything is ok.”
Police officer: “No, it’s not! I came all the way here and didn’t get to tase anyone. So I’m gonna tase YOU!” ZAP!!!
“Acosta says school officials initially “delayed in calling for medical assistance even though N.N. was in an obvious emergency medical situation.”
Unbelievable! This is probably because they were more afraid of what the police would do to the school, rather than the life of an innocent kid. Glad to see they know where their priorities lay. NOT! Every parent should immediately take their kid out of this school after hearing that statement.
“Acosta says the deputy officer was never in harm, and that the defendants allowed him to work at Cedar Creek High School even after he Tasered another student a year ago. That history created a“foreseeable danger” that led to N.N.’s injuries, she says.”
An the school never thought this would be a problem? Honestly, why the HELL do you need a taser at a high school, let alone a police officer? WTF is wrong with these schools? I never had a security guard at any of my schools growing up because the teachers were always there to cool everyone down or send them to detention and the parents would ground their kid when they get home. What the hell is wrong with these teachers and the parents? Don’t they know how to discipline anymore? The mere thought of a police officer at a school is ridiculous.
I wouldn’t even place my kid in a school that had one. What is wrong with these kid’s parents who think it is good to have a cop at their kid’s school? It’s a murder waiting to happen!
I guess both the teacher and the parents are so afraid to do anything because then they’ll have DPS on their ass, the moment someone rats on them. So they call the police aka Big Brother who feels they have direct authority from god to do whatever they want with the kid up to and including killing them without any accountability or regard for human life whatsoever.
UNFRIGGINBELIEVABLE!!! I still can’t believe I’m living in this kind of immoral world.
“Acosta said N.N. had expressed interested in joining the Marines. He may still face charges once the investigation is final.”
1. Why would you want to join the Marines after that, knowing our whole government and military is under the corruption of Obama?
2. What charges? For being alive after getting tased? Unfrigginbelievable! What about charges on the deputy! Why can’t they just take responsibility and be held accountable for their actions for just one friggin time in their lives! JUST ONCE!!! I’m so sick and tired of this “I’m a cop. I’m god” bullshit and no matter what happens, even after you survived the cop’s mistake, you are still going to be charged and put in jail because our corrupt government says that a cop can never be seen as the bad guy nor can he do any wrong.
WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!!!! GGRRRR!!!!! THIS MAKES ME MAD AS HELL, DAMMIT!!!!
The whole school should fire and sue this son of a bitch to high hell and the parents of the school should all get together and do the same or stone the shit out of him! WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
Ya see NC, the cops get away with this crap because they have heard us all bitching for all of these years and that is all they hear. It is all just cheap “white noise” to them because they have been left to get away with what ever they want and the people do not do a damned thing about it. Cops will never be prosecuted as long as they go in front of a court of so called law…. We The People got to grow a pair and start takeing the law into our own hands when we see a pig cop doing things like this. These thug cops need to be dragged out in the middle of the street and be shown no mercy and be beat like the scummy low lifes that every one of them are – and I mean beat bad. Time to wipe that smile off of those cops faces.
Social Engineering has made this country a group of compliant ass kissing sheep who know that the pigs will become very angry if they do not do exactly as they are told.We see this happening all across ameriKa now and all they do is bleat.This country is finished if the citizens don’t put an end to this very soon. The government and the Law Enforcement for the most part are all in on this tyranny,just look at Boston and Katrina to see this in action.And you can bet its going to continue and get a lot more tyrannical in the future.