A San Antonio mother says staff at Kirby Middle School violently restrained her sixth-grade son, who has special needs, putting him in a chokehold that left the boy with a concussion and lingering symptoms. The boy’s mother, Destiny Giles, says he came home from school with headaches, extreme fatigue and slurred speech, and that she has been asking the district for video of what happened ever since.
Mother alleges forceful restraint
Speaking with KABB, Giles said a staff member grabbed her son Xavier by the back of his hoodie, yanked him backward, hit him in the chest three times and, in her words, “put him in the chokehold,” choking him from behind and slamming him to the ground. She told KABB that a second staffer then pushed Xavier onto his stomach and sat on his back, and that the principal later told employees they had used an improper restraint. Giles also said the district reached out after the incident and scheduled a meeting with her to review what happened…..