4-26-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-

A Tennessee school employee at Robert R. Church Elementary has been removed from his duties for dragging a 7-year-old Black boy off a bus by his ankle.

A video recorded by a fellow student on the bus shows the little boy screaming and crying out for his mother as he was being dragged off according to the Charlotte Observer.

The Shelby County Schools say that a fight broke out on the bus and that the employee was breaking up the fight before the video was recording began.

Kimberly Hardin, mother of the child dragged on the bus, told WREG that she was unaware of the incident until a few days later.

“Another parent of a child at the school contacted me Friday evening, and she said she had video of the teacher dragging my soon of the school bus,” said Hardin. “Her son recorded it.”

As her son was dragged, Hardin was told that her child sustained bruises and received a concussion,” because of the way he was dragged, he hit his head. “I feel bad. I didn’t believe my child,” explained Hardin.