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11 high school students arrested over massive brawl in middle of school day

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Eleven students have been arrested following a massive high school brawl that took place in the middle of the school day. Eleven students have been arrested following a massive high school brawl that took place in the middle of the school day. The incident occurred at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida – some 90 miles north of Orlando – when two school resource officers responded to a disturbance in a hallway of the high school at approximately 1 p.m. on Monday afternoon, according to a statement released from Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. MORE: Police looking for little boy at center of pizza gift card scam to support his baseball team All of the school s in Flagler County have at least two school resource deputies assigned to each campus and the two officers “immediately assisted teachers and administrators in attempting to break up the fight and disperse the crowd of on-lookers,” police said. “During the fight, a female student pushed (a deputy) so they could attack a...

Lawsuit: Man claims he was falsely arrested because of misuse of facial recognition technology

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Randal Quran Reid is now filing a lawsuit for the wrongful detainment. A Black man was wrongfully arrested and held for nearly a week in jail because of the alleged misuse of facial recognition technology, according to a civil lawsuit filed against the arresting police officers. Randal Quran Reid, 29, was driving to his mother's home outside of Atlanta the day after Thanksgiving when police pulled him over, according to Reid. "They told me that I had a warrant out of Jefferson Parish. I asked, 'Where's Jefferson Parish?' because I had never heard of that county," Reid told ABC News. "And then they told me it was in Louisiana. Then I was confused because I had never been to Louisiana." The DeKalb County police officers who pulled Reid over were in possession of two warrants issued by Jefferson and East Baton Rouge Parishes in Louisiana for Reid's arrest, according to a lawsuit filed by Reid for an unspecified amount. He was then taken to a DeK...