New Video Shows CPS Principal Allegedly Lie After Student Forced Out of School Building

Newly-released bodycam footage from police shows a Chicago Public Schools principal saying that a 9-year-old boy left school on his own, despite surveillance video showing a security guard physically force him out as she looked on.

The bodycam video released by lawyers for the child's family Tuesday shows Fiske Elementary Principal Cynthia Miller speaking with officers and relatives of the boy who were called the school during the March 26 incident, which is now the subject of a lawsuit.

In the footage, Miller can be heard saying the fourth-grade child "bust through us and went out the door."

School surveillance video released in last month, however, showed a person identified by attorneys as a security guard pushed and shoved the boy toward a door. Then multiple staff members, including the security guard, are seen standing at the door and watching the child leave the building.

The boy's family claimed in their lawsuit the 9-year-old was thrown into the streets of one of Chicago's "most violent neighborhoods with no coat in cold weather during the middle of the school day."

Family members said they were told the child "ran out" of the school after being violent.

"They said he was biting, scratching and kicking other kids - that didn't happen," Attorney Dan Herbert said. "He was thrown out into the cold with a polo shirt on for 30 minutes."
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