Ms. Hargrave was arrested on charges of “remaining after having been forbidden” and “resisting an officer,” according to Ike Funderburk, Abbeville’s city attorney and prosecutor. But he decided not to pursue charges, as did a lawyer for the school board, Mr. Funderburk said on Tuesday. Ms. Hargrave teaches English to fifth- and sixth-grade students at Rene A. Rost Middle School in Vermilion Parish on the southern Louisiana coast. “Please go to your local school board meetings. “Deyshia Hargrave’s expulsion from a public meeting and subsequent arrest are unacceptable and raise serious constitutional concerns,” Jane Johnson, the interim executive director of the A.C.L.U.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2018 23:46 UTC