A Vermilion Parish teacher was arrested at a school board meeting Monday night after she had the temerity to question the School Board giving a raise to the superintendent but not to teachers such as herself. According to a video of the incident, the marshal who handcuffed Deyshia Hargrave and waited with her outside for a patrol car, told her she'd be booked with public intimidation. He says he gave her ample opportunities to obey his orders to leave. She says she was leaving and that he arrested her as she was asking him a question.
According to Lafayette's KATC TV, Hargrave was booked with "remaining after being forbidden and resisting an officer." Jerome Puyau, the superintendent whose renewed contract and raise Hargrave was protesting, told the news station that the school system didn't want to press charges against her. But that didn't stop Hargrave, who teaches language arts at Rene Rost Middle School, from being processed into jail. Nor did it stop Vermilion Parish's School Board and its law enforcement officials from looking like villains.
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