A mother disputes an assault charge against her son after a Carroll High School arrest. CCISD police say force was used to prevent further injury during a melee.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Parents are continuing to raise concerns over the use of force by school police following an altercation at Carroll High School that led to two student arrests and the use of pepper spray.<\/p>\n
The incident unfolded earlier this week when CCISD police attempted to arrest a student they say was leading a group toward another student to assault them. Police Chief Kirby Warnke said the student was asked multiple times to leave campus but refused.<\/p>\n
That student\u2019s family \u2014 identified as the Cruz family \u2014 alleged in a previous interview that their child was injured by an officer during a one-on-one interrogation following the arrest.<\/p>\n
When asked about that allegation Wednesday, Warnke said he had not previously been made aware of the claim.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you brought it up to me, that\u2019s the first I\u2019ve heard of it,\u201d Warnke said. \u201cI haven\u2019t heard any allegations to the same. It\u2019s contrary to our operations and the way we do business. But I\u2019ll look into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate but related arrest, police say another student \u2014 seen in video wearing a purple hoodie \u2014 intervened during the initial arrest and was charged with assault on a public servant, a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n
That student\u2019s mother, who asked not to be identified, disputes police accounts and says she learned about the incident through family members rather than school administrators.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother-in-law called me asking if I had seen the videos of my son being attacked by three adults,\u201d she said. \u201cI immediately got terrified because I hadn\u2019t gotten a call from the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said administrators were evasive when she arrived on campus and that it took hours before she was informed her son had been taken to the Nueces County Juvenile Detention Center, where he was held overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know if he had eaten. I was scared he was hurt,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep all night. We wanted our son home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family cites a lack of transparency and what they describe as excessive force and says they are considering legal action.<\/p>\n
Warnke said the situation could have been avoided if students had followed instructions from campus administrators.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a sad event,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the student involved would have simply followed instructions and left as directed, it probably wouldn\u2019t have devolved to this.\u201d<\/p>\n
CCISD police say the incident remains under investigation and that the department will review any complaints submitted by parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother disputes an assault charge against her son after a Carroll High School arrest. CCISD police say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-145280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}