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An Indiana police officer has now been charged after punching a high school student on video. 43-year-old Robert Lawson was charged with battery and perjury after a two-week investigation into a 27-second video that showed the Indianapolis officer assaulting a 17-year-old high school student to the ground the Indianapolis Star reports.

Prosecutors allege the officer not only assaulted the student but he lied about almost every aspect of the incident.

On Aug. 29 Lawson arrived at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis to break up a large fight, according to Fox 59. When officers arrived on the scene, the school resource officers already had one juvenile in custody and the aunt of the child who was attacked at the scene. Another video shows the officer approaching the aunt yelling “You want to go to jail? You want to go to jail? Let’s go!”

Then the teen steps in between his aunt and the officer, then Lawson punches him in the face, which landed the student to the ground.

When the cops wrote up the incident report, they claimed that the student “attempted to assault the officer,” and that he only delivered an “open palm” to the student. According to a federal lawsuit filed by the victim’s parents, Lawson ordered the child’s aunt to stop recording the incident and tried to confiscate the aunt’s phone. Lawson arrested the 17-year-old, charging resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. When the video surfaced on Facebook the next day, the police department released the teen, placed the officer on administrative leave and promised a full investigation.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced Lawson hit the student “without a legitimate concern for self-defense” and told internal investigators that the child had balled up his fists, “bladed his body” and gave him an angry look.

Lawson said the student “clinched his face in anger” however, detective John Howard said, although the child’s face wasn’t visible in the footage, both hands were open and weren’t making a fist according to the Star, Lawson’s report stated he immediately handcuffed the teen but the video shows him kneeing him in the chest. Lawson’s report said another officer on the scene, Sgt. Marzetta Jenkins saw the student swing his fists. However, when investigators asked Jenkins, she denied saying she told Lawson those remarks.

Aleesia Johnson Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent released a statement saying: “As a black woman and a mother of black children, it isn’t possible to watch the video of the incident that occurred yesterday at Shortridge without immediately thinking about the other incidents in our country that occur between white police officers and black people, especially males.”

During a press conference, Curry said “This in no way excuses what the officer is accused of doing, obviously.”

“But our hope would be that adults could act like adults. She screamed. She yelled. She dropped f-bombs. She dropped MF-ers. We simply would hope that adults could act like adults. What happened here, this whole circumstance would have been avoided.”

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