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A third party will be hired to investigate allegations of racist bullying and abuse against a Black 13-year-old boy during a sleepover after claims that he was only invited to entertain his white classmates, Texas school leaders and officials said.
During a news conference Tuesday, Superintendent Sara Bonser, alongside Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere and Police Chief Ed Drain addressed the incident that quickly went viral after the boy’s mother, Summer Smith, posted the videos and images on Facebook.
Smith said she made the videos public because she wasn’t getting the help she needed from the Plano district and officials at Haggard Middle School, The Dallas Morning News reported.
There is nothing OK about bullying : Plano officials investigate harassment incident at Haggard Middle School
The district has hired a third party to investigate other bullying allegations that happened prior to this year. Author: WFAA Staff Updated: 7:15 PM CST March 9, 2021
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Updated 7:15 p.m. with additional information.
Plano ISD expects the investigation into bullying allegations from a 13-year-old student at Haggard Middle School to be released next week, officials said Tuesday. Plano police are looking into the incident as a possible hate crime.
This comes after hundreds gathered Friday in support of the Plano boy, whose family says was the victim of physical abuse and racial taunts.
Texas authorities investigating allegations of racism and bullying of a 13-year-old by his classmates during sleepover
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SeMarion Humphrey was just ecstatic after seeing people show up to support him at a protest last week.
PLANO, Texas Texas school and law enforcement officials have launched investigations after videos surfaced showing a 13-year-old allegedly being bullied by classmates during a sleepover in a home in Plano.
“To call it bullying minimizes the gravity and the horror of this attack,” said Kim T. Cole, the attorney representing Summer Smith and her son SeMarion Humphrey, an eighth-grader at Haggard Middle School.
A fellow student befriended SeMarion and invited him to a sleepover that took place on the weekend of February 12, Cole and Smith told CNN. Smith says SeMarion didn’t know beforehand that some boys who had harassed him at school would also be at the sleepover.