Video footage shows lunchroom aide made a black child eat food out of cafeteria trash, family finally sees video after its released to the public after months of asking too see surveillance footage

Surveillance video has been released to the public showing a Black student being told to a white lunch monitor at a school at Lorain, Ohio to eat food the child had already thrown in the trash. The family of the girl, has been asking for several months to see the video of the encounter at Palm Elementary School. The parents of the student, who’s also suing the school alleges the footage confirms everything their daughter old them. The Lorain City School District released surveillance video of the incident on Wednesday, Jan. 19. The school district blurred the students’ faces out before the video was release to the public.

Footage shows a 34-minute full-length video released by the district of the incident in November 2021. Video shows a child throwing her finished lunch into the garbage can, telling the principal she didn’t like the waffles. An adult woman wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans pulled the food out of the trash can, wiped off the package of food and told the student to eat what had been thrown into the garbage.

The lawyer says the video confirms the testimony of the student, saying, “unfortunately, in our world and society today, had that video not been there, it might have just been a child’s word against a teacher, an administrator, which is a tough spot to be in.”

The district discovered during its investigation that the girl was pressured to eat the food from the trash receptacle. She told her parents once she got home Cleveland 19 reported.

Since the district’s investigation, both the principal and the cafeteria monitor have been let go. However, the girl’s family believes that the termination of the two adults is just a quick fix and that they should have their day in court for the pain and suffering they’ve gone through.

LaTosha Williams, the girl’s mom, says that her child had become sick after eating the food.

“It literally flipped my whole family upside down,” she said in December. “She has changed at home. She doesn’t act the same. She doesn’t even want to go to school.”

The family filed a lawsuit that seeks admission of wrongdoing, a collaborative effort to prevent such incidents in the future and an undetermined amount of money.

District superintendent Jeff Graham released a statement saying, “Any infringement upon the dignity and respect of our students will not be tolerated. Our students deserve staff members who are able to make good decisions in all situations. And any staff member who is unable to deliver on that promise is unwelcome in our schools.”

The school district has offered no further statement about the incident or the lawsuit.

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