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Why you talking? >> Nothing says protect and serve like tasing a teenager on a yellow school bus surrounded by children at a school named after Langston Hughes, a man who literally wrote about injustice and abuse of power. Stick around. We'll show you what reasonable force leaves behind. This happened at Langston Hughes High School where an officer decided a compliance issue on a school bus required electricity. Because when students don't move fast enough, the next step obviously isn't communication. It's neuromuscular incapacitation. Cell phone video filmed by another student shows the officer ordering 18-year-old Laneir Johnson Hunt off the bus. He doesn't immediately comply. So instead of patience, explanation, or literally anything else, zap. >> We're getting a new perspective on a viral video that shows a police officer tasing a student on a school bus. Today, that student seen in the video along with his mother and attorney shared his side of the story. >> The incident happened last Thursday at Fulton County's Langston Hughes High School. That's where Fox's Robenzo joins us. Uh so Rob, does the student plan to sue Hey there guys. Good evening to you both. Well, that is yet to be seen, but his lawyer says they will use every avenue available to them. The 18-year-old student says uh the officer was wrong when he said he was on the wrong bus and he was wrong when he tased him. Watching you [screaming] >> now get up. 5 days after this viral incident on a Fulton County bus, 18-year-old Laneir Johnson Hunt says he's left with these scars. He says they still burn to the touch. Fulton County school police tased him after he says his bus driver claimed he wasn't on the right bus, but he says he was. >> They asked me to get off the bus. I had refused and told him this. Well, I was trying to tell him this is my bus, but the students was telling them that this is my correct bus. Apparently, we now tase first and ask questions like why and context later before the comments scream should have complied. Stick around because reality is about to be inconvenient and his reason actually matters. >> The teen and his mom spoke to the media Tuesday alongside a civil rights attorney whom they've hired. They maintain he was on the right bus and was adamant about getting to his six-year-old brother who has autism. >> He was merely trying to get home to take care of his little brother. He was on the right bus. >> The student who weighs about 115 lbs claims after the officer tased and handcuffed him. The violence didn't end. >> He was slapping me, then he tried to tase me again. >> And just in case you were wondering how the student was held accountable, he was suspended from school for 10 days. Oh, and it gets better. He was also charged with obstruction, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. because nothing says justice like stacking charges on the person who got tased. As for the officer, he's been removed from duty while an internal investigation is conducted, which in cop means paid vacation pending paperwork. And when asked for details, the school district declined to provide much of anything, calling this an isolated incident. an isolated incident caught on video that went viral involving a taser on a school bus full of students totally isolated. >> The teen's lawyer says he was suspended for 10 days and charged with obstruction resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. >> And I was like, "Okay, if he did something wrong, then you guys handle it." But then when I got the complete truth, it hurt. Fulton County Schools confirmed they've removed the officer from duty during the internal investigation, but they refused to provide any other details, calling this an isolated incident. >> He was on the right bus. He didn't lie to anyone. He wasn't trying to fight the police officer. And if they genuinely just would have asked, they would have knew that he was on the right bus. There you go. >> The president of the Georgia NAACP, who is also an attorney, says since the teen was on the right bus, it was not a lawful order and the use of force was unreasonable. >> For him to be on the right bus at the right time and to be assaulted like this is atrocious. >> Now, get up. Now guys, first and foremost, the student's family says they want his suspension lifted so he can get back to class. Now, following today's news conference, I reached out to Fulton County Schools for any more information or comment on this incident, but they declined. >> So, let's recap. A student gets tased, suspended, and charged. The officer gets removed from duty and an internal investigation, and the school calls it an isolated incident. If this is what school safety looks like, then the lesson isn't about discipline, it's about power. If this video made you uncomfortable, good. It should like it so more people see it. Share it so this doesn't disappear. And subscribe if you believe accountability shouldn't stop at the school bus door.
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