KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office has decided not to charge a Kalamazoo Public Schools administrator after reviewing the investigation information on an incident in a school cafeteria earlier this year.
The school administrator was accused by a Kalamazoo Central High School student’s family of “slamming her to the ground.”
According to the report from the Kalamazoo Township Police Department for the January 11, 2022 incident in the Kalamazoo Central High School lunchroom, the school administrator told police he was trying to pick up and carry the student away from a fight when he fell. According to the same police report, the female student told police he “slammed her to the ground.”
An assistant prosecutor told MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette that the administrator’s actions were for the purpose of “preventing injury to other students, staff, and the student herself.”
According to MLive, the female student told police during their investigation that she was trying to fight another student when the administrator grabbed her from her waist, picked her up and “slammed her to the ground.”
She said the hospital where she was treated believed she had a concussion and an injury to her elbow.
The student told police that she did not think “that he should have picked her up and slammed her to the ground,” according to the police report.
In security camera footage reviewed by police, the girl was seen yelling and flailing her arms in the cafeteria. The administrator is seen trying to stop her, but she walked around him to get to other students. The staff member grabbed the girl by the waist and tried to carry her out of the cafeteria.
