Mother outraged after son was pinned, face-down by staffer at Virginia school

A Nottoway mother reached out to 8News for answers after a video surfaced of her son being restrained at school in February.

Ashley Skeens said her son, 15-year-old Kahmaree Green, got into an altercation with another student at Nottoway High School on February 27th. Moments later, video captures an staff member trying to contain Green before pinning him to the ground, face down.

The video shows Green pinned down for more than two minutes, and you can see the student’s head rotating back and forth.

“You could’ve taken him down that way, but you could’ve rolled him over instantly,” Skeens said in an interview Monday. “You don’t have to lay on top of him like that for 2 minutes and 15 seconds… he’s on top of him.”

The video appears to show Green in what is called a ‘prone restraint,’ a type of physical restraint where an agitated individual is placed in a face-down position. According to Virginia code, this type of restraint is prohibited in elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth.

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The boy is disabled as a result of strokes suffered when he was 2.