School police incident addressed

The chief of the Clark County School District Police Department said he couldn’t get into the details of the continuing internal investigation against an o cer recorded slamming a Black teen to the ground and kneeling on his back last month.

Chief Mike Blackeye met March 6 in North Las Vegas with the local chapter of the National Action Network, one of the local civil rights organizations that has been vocal after the February 9 afterschool incident that occurred outside

Durango High School, without most of the answers the crowd seemed to want to hear— especially regarding the employment status of the o cer captured on a video that circulated widely on social media immediately afterward.

The o cer, whom CCSDPD has not identified publicly, is on administrative duty away from the public as internal a airs reviews his conduct that day.

“For this community, nothing is acceptable except termination for that o cer,” Nation- al Action Network chapter president Robert Bush told Blackeye. “I want you to tell the community why he hasn’t been terminated or why he can’t be terminated at the moment.”

The o cer has due process rights under the o cers’ collective bargaining agreement, Blackeye said.

Speaking generally on the discipline process, he said that termination doesn’t come right away, and suspension typically happens when a termination is imminent. –Hillary Davis

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