VA. 3rd incident of pepper spray in 7 days to break up middle school fight is deemed not excessive

Pepper spray was used to break up a student fight at Blair Middle School on Monday, the second such incident in a week in the city.

Two students got into a fight at Blair Middle School during lunch, and a school security guard used pepper spray to stop it, a Norfolk Public Schools news release said.

Three students affected by the pepper spray were seen by the school nurse and their parents were contacted.

The two students will be disciplined and school administrators are working with the Department of Pupil Personnel Services to determine whether the use of pepper spray was in accordance with the school division’s policies and procedures, the news release said.

Last Tuesday, a security guard at Lafayette-Winona Middle School used pepper spray on students to break up a food fight.

Ada Blair, PTA president at Lafayette-Winona, has said the security guard was justified in using the pepper spray.

“There was nothing else the security guard could have done – chairs and everything were being thrown,” she said Friday.

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