SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco Bay Area school district has fired a high school security officer who faces a felony charge after he repeatedly slapped a handcuffed, wheelchair-bound student suffering from cerebral palsy and dumped him onto the floor, authorities said.
The May 19 attack at Oakland High School was caught on surveillance footage. The officer handcuffed the student when the student either refused to go to class or was slow to move. The officer was wheeling the student to class when the student spit on him and the officer attacked, said principal Matin Abdel-Qawi. The officer struck the student three times before pushing him to the ground.
The district identified the officer as Marchell Mitchell and said Thursday that he was fired after the incident. Mitchell pleaded not guilty May 22 to a charge of corporal injury to a child, said Stephanie Chan, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. The Associated Press
