An Allentown man is accused of assaulting Harrison Morton Middle School\u2019s acting principal last week while the administrator was attempting to break up a fight between students after the school\u2019s dismissal, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Dyhmir White-Brown, 22, hit Arcelius Brickhouse while he was separating two students who were fighting at the school Thursday, police wrote in court documents.<\/p>\n
White-Brown is charged with aggravated assault and simple assault. He is free after posting $5,000 bail.<\/p>\n
According to police, White-Brown and his family were at the school about 2:30 p.m. because a family member who is a sixth grade student was allegedly being harassed by a boy in the school. Another family member of White-Brown\u2019s, an eighth grade boy, \u201csquared up\u201d with the alleged harasser, prompting Brickhouse to try and separate them, charging documents state.<\/p>\n
White-Brown hit Brickhouse while the administrator was separating the students, police said. Surveillance footage showed White-Brown hitting the back of Brickhouse\u2019s head four times, according to authorities. Brickhouse told the responding officer, the school resource officer, that he was not injured.<\/p>\n
The Allentown School District said in a statement that the incident was addressed quickly, and there was no threat to students, staff or the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of respect for the school leader\u2019s privacy, we are unable to provide additional information regarding their condition, but they are receiving appropriate care,\u201d the statement reads. White-Brown was not authorized to be on school property, according to officials.<\/p>\n
City police filed charges Thursday, and White-Brown was arraigned on them that night. He did not have an attorney listed for him Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Brickhouse, who is also the school district\u2019s executive director of instructional leadership, has been Harrison-Morton\u2019s acting principal since the previous principal, Stephanie Williams, was placed on leave following an incident at a city park in September.<\/a> She later resigned,<\/a> saying that the incident was related to mental health struggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is accused of assaulting Harrison Morton Middle School\u2019s acting principal last week while the administrator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-214661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214661","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=214661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}