Arkansas High School Students Plan A Protest During School After Black and White Both Get Suspended The Same Amount of Time

Arkansas High School Students Plan A Protest During School After Black and White Both Get Suspended The Same Amount of Time. Although The White Student Started The Fight

An Black Arkansas high school student was suspended for the same amount of time as a white student who started a fight with him during school. Then the students at the school staged a sit-in at the high school after the decision. Fellow students recorded the incident and posted it on social media, sparking the questioning of the administration’s response to bullying and systemic racial bias in school. The video since gone viral on social media.

The fight took place in a locker room at Fordyce High School located in Fordyce, Arkansas was started by a white student. It’s unclear when the incident happened, but it was posted on Feb. 25 on Twitter.

Video shows a Black teen getting dressed as the “white bully” is yelling at him with comments about his mother.

The Black teen was seen trying to ignore those insults, and at one point attempts to walk away, while the bully is encouraged by other students to continue the verbal attacks and threatens to physically assault him. The video, a little over 2 minutes, shows the Black boy eventually responding after being hit by an object and pushed by the white teen.

During the fight the white teen places the Black teen into a headlock until, he is left lying unconscious on the floor. While was unconscious, the white student kicks him in the head and stomps him on his back.

The students were never stopped in the video by a teacher or coach.

School officials reportedly suspended both students for ten days, although the video showed the Black student was attacked first, and attempted to de-escalate the situation according to Fox 16.

In protest of this suspension decision, members of the student body decided to protest by organizing a sit-in on Friday, March 4. Their goal is to make the school pay more attention to reports of bullying.

Students were outraged about both students being disciplined.

A video showed the principal addressing the children, saying he “admires” them engaging their “right” to protest. However, he said the school has investigated the fight “thoroughly” and it “went as far up the handbook” as it could to align with school policy.

He told the students they were interrupting school, while several “important people on campus” that want to help the administration get “programs” for the next year, implying that the protest is impeding that progress.

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