ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An altercation between students at an Allentown middle school led to a man allegedly assaulting the school’s acting principal, hitting him in the head several times.<\/p>\n
According to a statement released from Allentown School District, on Thursday, June 4, staff responded to a student altercation following dismissal at Harrison Morton Middle School.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint states that 22-year old Dyhmir White-Brown, who was not authorized to be on school property, assaulted the acting school principal.<\/p>\n
According to court records, The school resource officer says that he was called for assistance at the front of the school on 2nd Street around 2:35 p.m. Upon arrival, he says staff pointed towards White-Brown stating, \u201cHe hit the principal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Court records indicate White-Brown and members of his family went to the school in response to a family member, who’s a student at the school, allegedly being harassed by a boy in the school. After White-Brown arrived at the school, there was an altercation between two juveniles.<\/p>\n
A woman said the principal was separating the two juveniles when White-Brown allegedly hit the principal. According to court documents, school surveillance video showed the principal keeping the two juveniles separated, when White-Brown struck the rear of the principal’s head at least four times.<\/p>\n
White-Brown was arrested on scene and charged with aggravated assault and simple assault. He posted $5,000 bail and is awaiting his preliminary hearing on June 11th, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
The incident was addressed quickly, and there was no ongoing threat to students, staff, or the school community, according to school officials.<\/p>\n
Out of respect for the school leader\u2019s privacy, ASD says it is unable to provide additional information regarding the person’s condition, but notes that person is receiving appropriate care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An altercation between students at an Allentown middle school led to a man allegedly assaulting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,1646,11228,153,155,154,760,206,70603,10011,93803],"class_list":["post-214077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-middle-school","tag-police","tag-school-principal","tag-school-safety","tag-student-altercation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}