CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office says a Thursday afternoon fracas at GOAL Academy resulted in a trip to the hospital and charges filed in Juvenile Court against a 16-year-old special-needs student.
The incident, which occurred around 3 p.m. during school dismissal, began with the student becoming visibly “upset, belligerent and cursing,” said Bob Gault, spokesman for the sheriff’s office.
“The student punched the school resource officer several times when [the officer] tried to detain him,” Gault said. “They struggled, and both wound up on in the floor, resulting in some minor scratches to the student’s knees.”
Gault said the student was as large as GOAL Academy SRO Sam Long.
Emergency medical personnel were in the area and dropped by to take the student to SkyRidge Medical Center for a mental evaluation and treatment of the scrapes, he said.