Parker and Godchaux also have been banned from all campuses in the Iberville Parish School System.
On Monday, a parent named Alessia Parker was video on tape smacking the principal at a Louisiana elementary school so forcefully that she was knocked out of a chair
The incident took place at a Plaquemine basketball game after school.
The surveillance footage from Iberville Elementary School on Thursday depicts the principal attempting to prevent small children from entering the basketball court during a game.
Parent Alessia Parker slaps and beats Iberville Elementary School, Louisiana Principal during basketball game, video goes viral
The altercation began after the principal asked Parker to move her two small children off the basketball court and the principal had tried twice to move the children off the court however, age 33 Parker took exception to it with her going onto punch and knockout the principal subsequently.
33-year-old Alessia Parker was arrested in Louisiana this week for assaulting a school teacher, resisting officers, and disturbing the peace.
The victim was the school principal who tried to keep Parker’s children off the basketball court.
Parker is being held on a $100k bond. pic.twitter.com/iG7TtlkOjf
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“The principal sitting on the chair and three kids in tow and one of her friends,” Plaquemine Police Chief Stephen Engolio said. “The principal said to keep the kids off the court; it’s disrupting the game. She took offense to that. You see her move in on the teacher and she punched her and knocked her out the chair.”
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Surveillance cameras at the Louisiana elementary school Monday captured the parent slapping the principal hard enough to knock her out of a chair with the principal suffering a busted lip as she fell to the ground and hit her head on it.
After then, the footage shows what looks to be a deputy attempting to disperse the crowd at the school. After then, the principal is seen wiping her face with a tissue.
Alessia Parker was taken into custody by Plaquemine police and is being charged with felony charges along with being accused of disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and battery on the school principal.
🚨NEW —Parent sends elementary school principal to hospital after altercation over kids on basketball court. Alessia Parker arrested on multiple charges in Plaquemine, Louisiana.
— Principal tried to maintain order during game, resulting in confrontation. Parker held on… pic.twitter.com/UYwa9vv9bt
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Parker was accompanied by a lady named Jemecia Godchaux, who was also charged despite not hitting the principal, according to the police.
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Jemecia Godchaux, who was with Parker, allegedly egged on Parker and “cussed people out.
Parker is being jailed in the Iberville Parish jail on a $100,000 bond. In addition to her new accusations, Godchaux has an outstanding bench warrant, according to the police.
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