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14-year-old Jacob Herrera attended Sam Houston middle school's Wednesday night football game. Herrera wore a rosary outside of his clothes when officer Corporal Wilson asked him to remove it.
Marivell Chavez, a witness, says she was at the game Wednesday night and claimed while Herrera was being held to the ground, he yelled, "call my mom" and "I can't breathe."
"You know he handcuffed him and then crossed him across the street right there and slammed him again and he repeatedly slammed the child on the floor," says Chavez.
The Amarillo Police Department says this was not the case at all. And the reason the situation escalated was because the student did not want to comply to any rules and resisted arrest.
"He was fighting with the officer, he wouldn't comply with the commands, he wouldn't put his arms behind his back. The officer used a couple of different compliance holds to try and get him to put his hands behind his back, he did not deploy his taser, he just tried to get him under control they rolled around on the ground for several minutes," says Cpl Jerry Neufeld.
According to APD the use of rosaries can possibly symbolize association with a gang and that's the reason they ask students to not wear them visible while on school property or functions.
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/27170316/student-wearing-rosary-gets-arrested
Student wearing rosary, gets arrested
Posted: Oct 30, 2014 7:48 PM EDT Updated: Oct 30, 2014 9:41 PM EDT
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