A second video showing Woodland Hills High School resource officer Steve Shaulis manhandling a student in the principal’s office of the Pennsylvania school has been released. In the video, Principal Kevin Murray can be seen holding the kid’s head down as Officer Shaulis tasers him on the floor. This comes a few months after a variety of news outlets reported the school’s Principal Kevin Murray was placed on leave for being caught on tape threatening to “knock your teeth down your fucking throat” of a different 14-year-old student; and it comes weeks after civil rights attorney Todd Hollis showed video of an incident with yet another student Que’chawn Wade being dragged violently into the officer by Shaulis where he allegedly punched Wade’s front tooth loose.
The teen was questioned by Officer Steve Shaulis, a Churchill police officer stationed at the school, about a missing cell phone, Mr. Hollis said. The officer told the teen that the matter “would end up in court,” and the student exited the school office and walked back into the hallway. Officer Shaulis followed the student and used a derogatory term to describe him, Mr. Hollis said. The boy “responded in kind,” he said, and the officer then pulled him back into the office where he threw him against the wall and knocked him to the floor, striking him multiple times before eventually handcuffing him.
Mr. Hollis said he doesn’t know what the student was ultimately charged with, but that he was taken by ambulance from the school to UPMC Presbyterian, where his tooth was sewn back into his mouth. The boy, whose face was still swollen Wednesday, will need four more surgeries, he said.
Here’s the incident with Que’chawn Wade from earlier this month:
The new video released is from 2015 and shows a now-graduated student being choked and slammed by Officer Shaulis with Principal Murray joining in to help. And now there is a fourth student coming forward to say they have been similarly abused and punished on trumped up charges by school administration.
A second video clip shows a March 2015 incident involving a former Woodland Hills student being grabbed by Officer Shaulis and thrown to the ground. In the video, Mr. Murray is seen helping to hold the boy down while Officer Shaulis shocked him with a Taser. Mr. Hollis said that student was acquitted of resisting arrest, but received probation on a charge of disorderly conduct.
“They make you flinch when you see what they did to that young man,” said Tim O’Brien, the attorney representing the fourth student. His client is a 15-year-old girl who alleges similar altercations and “fabricated” criminal charges in two incidents at the school in 2015 and late 2016.
The 2015 video where Officer Shaulis, with help from Principal Murray, chokes and slams a student for “resisting,” is here.
Since Principal Murray came back from administrative leave, he’s added “head high school football coach” to his titles at Woodland, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Officer Shaulis is “currently” assigned elsewhere, and the Miami Herald says Wade is being “homeschooled since the incident” and also served a suspension from school.
Woodland Hills Superintendent Alan Johnson told TribLive shortly after Wade’s incident that the injury the student sustained was “unfortunate,” though he insisted that “this was an isolated incident.”
On Tuesday, he insisted again that the two videos were again “a couple of isolated incidents” that Hollis was “turning ... into a pattern that does not exist.”
Sounds like there are now four “isolated incidents.”
Here is the news report playing Principal Murray’s threats against the 14-year-old student from months ago.