BAKER, La. (AP) - An attorney for a Baker Middle School teacher accused of assaulting an eighth-grade student last week says police violated her civil rights and should have never arrested her because she didn’t commit a crime.
Yigal Bander is representing teacher Deborah Anderson, who was handcuffed at school, placed in a patrol car and driven to the police station before she was transferred to parish prison and booked with simple battery.
The Advocate reports (https://bit.ly/1eRTMY3 ) both Baker School Superintendent Ulysses Joseph and School Board President Dana Carpenter have said officers were too aggressive when they decided to book Anderson after she was accused by a 13-year-old student of pulling at his shirt for failing to tuck it in his pants.
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Police Chief Mike Knaps says the case has been turned over to prosecutors.
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Information from: The Advocate, https://theadvocate.com
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