11-year-old arrested in school after allegedly refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance
The boy was reportedly charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence on February 4.
An 11-year-old student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Florida was reportedly arrested after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and allegedly told a teacher that "the flag is racist and the national anthem is offensive to black people."
The boy was reportedly charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence on February 4, Bay News 9 reported. The child was also issued a three-day suspension.
The student's mother, Dhakira Talbot, said that officials took things a little too far by arresting her son who is reportedly enrolled in gifted classes and has been bullied in the past.