creating false charges against school children to detract from their own excessive force which has since hit the headlines.

Pleajhai Mervin told Fox News LA that she was bumped while queuing for lunch and dropped the cake. After being ordered to clean it up and then re-clean the spot three times, she attempted to leave the area out of embarrassment but was jumped on by security, who forced her onto a table, breaking her wrist in the process.

Pleajhai also says that the security guard in the picture yelled, "Hold still, nappy-head," at her, which at the time she did not know was a racist comment.

The guards then viciously assaulted a 16-year-old boy who captured video of the incident on his cell phone. After the guards noticed the boy was filming them, they forcefully tackled him, pushing his head into the ground and twisting his arm behind his back. The boy's sister attempted to intervene as other students began to film on phones.

After initially letting the boy go, the security guards had him and his sister arrested a day later on assault charges after angry parents demanded the firing of the guards in question. The school also had the girl who dropped the cake expelled for five days and then arrested for littering and the girl's mother arrested after she sought out an attorney and demanded the arrest of the guard. The mother was suspended from her job at another school in the county.

While the mainstream media has played down this terrible incident, merely referring to it as a "scuffle," and Knight High School has refused to condemn the actions of the guards, students staged a walkout and public reaction has been heated.

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