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Black Diamond Middle School Student Arrested After “Tackling” Assistant Principal

by ECT

Shortly after 1:00 pm Tuesday, the Antioch Police and School Security responded to an aggressive student who was later arrested at Black Diamond Middle School in Antioch.

According to radio traffic, the student reportedly tackled the assistant principal and was breaking items inside the schools office building while trying to break windows. Strategic Threat Management, the schools security company, arrived on scene to assist school staff with Antioch police arriving shortly after.

“There was a disturbance on campus and there was a disruption in the office,” said Dr. Mike Santos of the Antioch Unified School District. “During an investigation, the student was uncooperative and trying to break items and windows in the office so because of the outburst, we called the Antioch Police Department.”

Santos said that the assistant principal was not really tackled, but that they were trying to get control of the student.

According to radio traffic, police later called for an ambulance because of “drugs in the body” but Santos stated he could not confirm if it was an aspirin, prescription drug or illegal drug. It’s believed that he hid drugs of some type prior to police arrival.

Santos did say that staff trying to council the student, but he took a different type of action and staff tried to control the student without anyone getting hurt. The incident was confined to an area away from other students and teachers. During the outburst, only administration was involved.

Antioch Police stated the student was arrested and taken to juvenile hall.

Update:

Per Antioch Police Lt. Vanderklugt, he said that a student was being disruptive and trying to escape from school staff knocking them to the ground but he unsuccessfully got away. He also said it was believed he was in passion of a controlled substance but offer no further details.

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32 comments

Julio May 19, 2015 - 6:22 pm

This is no surprise. This is by far one of the worst schools in this district and the school board does nothing about it. They wonder why no one wants to substitute teach in the Antioch schools and this is exactly the type of thing this district allows to go on. Over and over and over.

Alison May 19, 2015 - 6:28 pm

Thank you ECT for highlighting a scary incident at the school which the District continues to try and cover up for these students. Santos is trying to spin this and you are not letting him by stating what is on the police radio. The AUSD is doing nothing to keep our staff safe at that school and this is why so many teachers have quit or left for other jobs.

Michael Ferreira May 19, 2015 - 11:43 pm

Could a story be watered down and made any more vague and contradictory as this one? “Could be aspirin, could be prescription drugs, could be illegal drugs?” Gufaw ! Based on the kid’s behavior couldn’t Fire and ambulance have evaluated him and figure it out? Thank goodness for police scanners. Next what is needed is real time video online of campuses. Or maybe body cameras for teachers and admins. like police officers.

ONGELIQUE PYLES May 20, 2015 - 4:23 pm

I agree with your statement! Seems like the achoool was negligent in trying to actually help the child.

Donna May 20, 2015 - 6:23 am

I am so happy that I pulled my daughter out of BDMS. Best thing I’ve ever done. Just wished I did it sooner. She suffered attending there

Gil May 20, 2015 - 9:30 am

I wonder how this will affect the new agreement the school district just entered into with the ACLU to stop disciplining out of control, violent youth? Come on you liberals who believe any kind of behavior is okay, what do you have to say? Don’t punish the poor baby, he’s just misunderstood! LOL

Julio May 20, 2015 - 12:54 pm

Gil: A certain new female board member told me recently ” there are no problems in the schools with the kids it is the teachers.” I admit a few teachers may have problems but the school board member needs to take her head out of her rump. The problem IS the kids and their permissive parents.

Jon May 20, 2015 - 2:04 pm

Would love that board member to go to a class and say that!

Gil May 20, 2015 - 3:30 pm

Shouldn’t be too long before we hear that the poor little thugs parents are using the teacher and the district.

School board won’t take anything serious until a teacher is killed.

GetYourFactsRight May 20, 2015 - 9:41 am

Get your facts straight before you write about this. You should be ashamed of yourself. No one was tackled.

EastCountyToday May 20, 2015 - 9:53 am

Use your “real name” instead of an alias from a school district computer. 🙂

ONGELIQUE PYLES May 20, 2015 - 4:24 pm

Very immature of you to reply as you did. Please work on your professionalism.

Martha May 20, 2015 - 6:10 pm

I support ECT, person should use his/her real name. if they have the facts, what do they have to hide?

i can stay anonymous if I want to that is my right May 20, 2015 - 7:51 pm

So when will ECT post their real name?

Anonymous May 20, 2015 - 11:25 pm

I didn’t catch you last name Martha…

icanstayanonymousifyoudo May 20, 2015 - 9:15 pm

And when will you be using your real name?

Jim Simmons May 20, 2015 - 11:17 am

This school district and staff are worse than politicians. Everything is a cover up. Thank god ECT is on the ball or no one would know what is currently going on in our schools. I am so glad my kids are out of the District.

Many people have complained about Santos and his treatment of people, thanks to the union, he keeps his job

Julio May 20, 2015 - 12:52 pm

The facts were straight. Tackled was in quotes. He didn’t make that up!

Philip Riley May 20, 2015 - 1:17 pm

Nice headline. Sure gets your readers fired up, doesn’t it? Never mind that you knew no one was “tackled”. Quotation marks aren’t good enough, you should be ashamed indeed.

EastCountyToday May 20, 2015 - 6:12 pm

I am not ashamed, we report the facts. It’s not our fault what the School District is releasing versus what Police say is different. The scanner used the words “tackled”. Go to the audio if you do not believe us.

Jacqueline May 20, 2015 - 6:02 pm

The BDMS article is a gross misuse of indirect information. The headline is appalling. Get your facts straight and write the whole truth, not what you believe to be the truth or something you hear on police scanners. This school has a handful of kids that may be troublesome, but I’d like to see one public school that reports zero trouble.
I’m sorry that your other readers have been given false information and their judgement is based on such sensationalism.

Gil May 20, 2015 - 6:52 pm

CCTimes is reporting this “middle school” student is 15 yrs old! I don’t know about the rest of you but when my sons were 15 they were sophomores at DV.

What the heck is 15 yr old doing in a school 11, 12, and 13 year olds? I am so happy my kids are no longer apart of this dysfunctional school district and thug infested city!!!

Julio May 20, 2015 - 7:01 pm

Jacqueline; “This school has a handful of kids that may be troublesome”. You are outrageous. This school has lost all it’s good students and higher learning students to other schools and private schools due to the fact the good parents are pulling them out for their own safety. Teachers continue to transfer out as fast as they can, substitute teachers will not even sub in that school and the school district keeps covering up all that happens. Time for you to wake up. Sounds like you are part of the problem. I continue to support the reporting of ECT.

Jacqueline May 22, 2015 - 1:32 pm

Julio, check your facts and test scores on this school before you make such sweeping statements. “this school has lost all it’s good students and higher learning students….” Wow, did you not realize that 200 students achieved the 3.5 or higher status required by the PTSO for the Gala presented to them? And that doesn’t even include all of the honor roll which starts at the 3.0 level. My own children have been through this district and have a achieved great success in their careers, both collegiately and professionally, as will my youngest who is on a perfect track for academic success. The schools and districts are not the sole providers of teaching and discipline to our children. It starts from home. I feel for you for perhaps being misinformed by others. Also, I reiterate: any reporting that bases their articles on initial notice from police scanners is ludicrous. Is that the only source the ECT has? Do they not do any actual researching for complete, concise reporting for their articles? Hmmm? Makes me wonder how many of the other articles published have been “doctored” to be more dramatic than they really are. I hope that is not the face of true journalism in today’s society.

Philip Riley May 20, 2015 - 7:34 pm

The scanner used the words “tackled” is a fact. Whether or not someone was tackled is not. You should know the difference.

Philip Riley May 20, 2015 - 7:50 pm

The scanner used the words “tackled” is fact. Whether or not someone actually was tackled is not. You should know the difference.

Camille James May 20, 2015 - 9:18 pm

I am using my real name so that no one can accuse me of trying to hide or of being ‘immature’. The facts are that an assistant principal was NOT tackled. Police scanner chatter is not evidence nor can if be used as facts. It is merely speculation on the part of the police until the facts are gathered. So all of you who are so quick to condemn an action or incident in which you only have the unsubstantiated and erroneous information spewed on the internet by a blogger too immature to identify themselves, need to take a step back from the computer before condemning a school and a CHILD without at the very least getting the facts from a more reputable source.

Martha May 21, 2015 - 5:11 am

Some of you people are ridiculous. ECT uses tackled and the Contra Costa Times used the word tussle. Not a lot of difference except one is more politically correct. Its a word describing an action, get over it.

Also, the Times quoted APD as saying the student assaulted staff, “He grabbed his backpack to leave, and the two employees grabbed it,” Fuhrmann said. “That’s when he assaulted the employees.”

More facts May 22, 2015 - 12:50 pm

Or you might say ” defended his personal property “

Julio May 21, 2015 - 7:32 am

These kids who constantly cause trouble in school and do norespond positively to correction belong is a school full of their own types, what ever that may be. My tax dollars should not be supporting children who belong in jail. They don’t want an education.

Philip Riley May 21, 2015 - 8:13 am

Julio, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Dale May 21, 2015 - 9:06 am

The school district is loosing students every year, and they must keep all students regardless of age and issues to keep getting the funding. Out of control with no solution in sight, this all started 10 years ago and now they are let with the problem students from all over the Bay Area that have been displaced from their districts and welcomed in Antioch!! Just look around town during the day and see how many truants hanging out and breaking into homes etc.

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