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Family Demands Accountability After Fulton County Student Is Tased on School Bus

The school district has removed the resource officer from duty pending an internal investigation.

Overview

  • Video from last week shows two officers boarding a Langston Hughes High School bus after a driver said Lanier Johnson-Hunt was on the wrong route.
  • One officer is heard asking, "You want to get off, or you want to make me take you off?" before a Taser is fired at the 18-year-old's chest at close range.
  • At a news conference, attorney Harry Daniels displayed a chest wound and called the tactics excessive.
  • Johnson-Hunt says he was trying to get home to care for his 6-year-old autistic brother; he was later charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and obstruction.
  • The student received medical attention the next day and was issued a 10-day suspension that his attorneys are contesting.