PITTSBURGH — Three students are planning to sue a Pittsburgh-area high school after they were threatened and beaten by school officers. <br /> <br />Lawyer Todd Hollis released surveillance footage of an incident at Woodland Hills High School from March of 2015, showing a then 15-year-old Ahmad Williams being grabbed and put in a chokehold by school resource officer Steve Shaulis, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. <br /> <br />Williams is forced down a hallway and slammed to the ground. Principal Kevin Murray appears and holds the teen’s head down as the officer tases him three times before cuffing him. <br /> <br />He is then lifted off the ground by his handcuffs and led to an office, where Officer Shaulis reportedly continued to assault him. <br /> <br />Another student was verbally harassed by Principal Murray and managed to record the administrator threatening to punch him in the face. <br /> <br />Murray was put on leave in December but was reinstated in January. <br /> <br />The most recent incident in April shows 14-year-old Que’chawn Wade being questioned by a room full of adults, which includes Officer Shaulis. <br /> <br />After Wade walks out, Shaulis follows and reportedly calls him a vile name. He is then grabbed and put in a room without cameras. <br /> <br />There, he was thrown around and assaulted, and punched so hard his front teeth were knocked out. <br /> <br />Investigators are looking into the incidents after the kids’ lawyers went public with the shocking videos. But district superintendent Alan Henderson denies there is a pattern of abuse, claiming the incidents were isolated.
