Community members in a Cape Cod town have rallied behind the Black student who endured months of racist taunts, according to family members.
reported Russell was initially scheduled to be arraigned on April 12. But after the hearing was postponed until May—and after an emotional community meeting—Sandwich Public School Superintendent Pamela Gould said this week she would start the process of getting Russell back in class.
“The next day, the student in question made a decision to find the student who made the comment in order to physically take matters into his own hands,” Gould wrote. “Only after the fight did the administration learn of why he made the decision to fight the student, sending him to get medical care, without one punch returned. His choice, plus the severity of the injuries to the other student, made the incident a police matter.
In the aftermath of the episode, community members demanded a town hall meeting to address what went down—and why the white student was already back at school despite the racial abuse that allegedly precipitated the fight.
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