School board member caught on video when 'she rammed her SUV into a teenage girl in a fight over a Walmart parking space'

A Georgia school board member faces misdemeanor charges after hitting a teenage girl with her Lexus SUV over a fight for a parking space at Walmart.



Angela Cornett, board member for Bartow County Schools, was arguing with an unidentified 17-year-old high school student in the Cartersville, Georgia Walmart parking lot when security footage showed her SUV ramming the young girl.



Deputies told reporters that 'the SUV stops as (the teen) stands in the parking space and suddenly accelerates. (The teen) is struck by the vehicle, and she is physically moved by the force of the vehicle.'

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Impatient: Georgia school board member Angela Cornett was arrested after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old girl with her SUV in a fight over a parking space

Marked: The unnamed girl measures the scuff marks she claims were left by the SUV's tires

'You can see she was standing there when the vehicle lurched forward,' the County Sheriff's office told MyFoxAtlanta.



The girl was holding the spot for a friend who had just given birth, police said.

'She told her to move and then she pulled into the parking spot and hit her with the tire of the vehicle,' Bartow County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Jonathan White told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 'They did see scuff marks on the victim’s knee, which was consistent with the height of the tire during that incident.'

Cornett claimed she told the teen to move and as she pulled into the space, the girl 'leaned against her vehicle and began screaming, ‘She hit me.’'

Under fire: Facing public criticism following her arrest, Cornett resigned from the school board Thursday

Caught: Surveillance footage of the lot shows Cornett driving her car into the teen

Cornett's daughter corroborated her story, according to police reports.

After the incident the girl had a black mark on her jeans allegedly from the SUV's tires.



Cornett was arrested and charged with reckless conduct. She's since been released on bail.



Scene of the crime: Cornett's attorney claims the girl was laughing as she walked into this Georgia Walmart

John Mroczko, Cornett's attorney, released a statement expressing his client's remorse.



'A young lady was standing in the front of the buggy return when Mrs. Cornett turned her car and entered the parking space,' the statement read. 'Unfortunately, the young lady stepped forward into Mrs. Cornett's vehicle in what it was later learned to block the parking space. As soon as the young lady stepped toward Mrs. Cornett's vehicle, Mrs. Cornett immediately stopped her vehicle.'

Cornett told reporters the teen refused medical treatment and was laughing as she walked in Walmart.



Under fire for the incident, Cornett resigned on Thursday.



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