A family has filed a lawsuit accusing a school resource officer employed by the Berkeley Police Department of assaulting a student last year after a required therapy session the 17-year-old attended on the Berkeley High campus.
This story was written in partnership with the Berkeley High Jacket, the student newspaper of Berkeley High School.
After the therapy session mandated by the student’s Individualized Education Program on March 4, 2025, the officer, “without provocation, slammed him and injured him, then led him off campus to a side exit where the [officer] knew cameras could not record the encounter, further assaulted [the student] and falsely arrested him,” according to the lawsuit, filed exactly a year later in Alameda County Superior Court…