Nearly a year after he accused Marathon School assistant principal Eric Mitchell of assaulting him in a Plainville casino, West Bridgewater resident Bryan Gallagher recently told the Hopkinton Independent his side of the story.
Gallagher claimed he was protecting a young man from repeated harassment by Mitchell when Mitchell became enraged. He said Mitchell punched him and repeatedly slammed his head into a slot machine. Casino video footage shared with the Independent confirms Gallagher’s description of the alleged assault.
“I’ve always been one for sticking up for other people,” he said in a phone interview with the Independent…