Trisha Brown Florida parent claims Lakeland school failed to take action after a 5th grade girl threatened to shoot her daughter in TikTok video. Alleged perpetrator identified as 11 year old black girl.
A Florida mother has claimed her daughter’s former school failed to remove a student who allegedly threatened to shoot her fifth-grader daughter in a TikTok video.
Trisha Brown, 33, in a viral TikTok video claims the school allowing the alleged perpetrator, a fifth grade black girl, to remain in class at Blake Academy in Lakeland despite her daughter being to scared to return.
Lakeland is part of the Polk County School District.
TikTok video initially appeared @webe_lit
School administrators retorted they had found no instances of bullying then threatened the mom with trespassing charges when she continued to complain.
Created last month, the video uses pictures of her 11-year-old child, the alleged tormentor, and two other students superimposed onto an image of a school hallway.
Using subtitles and computer-generated voices, her daughter is depicted demanding lunch money from her nemesis, who refuses.
‘I said I ain’t giving up nothing,’ the bully states before an image of what appears to be a water gun appears under her face.
After more words are exchanged, the sounds of gunfire ring out and kids can be heard screaming. A skull emoji then covers Brown’s daughter’s face as her picture topples over on its side.
‘Jit got popped,’ a student exclaims. ‘In the hallway. That’s crazy.’
The video which originally appeared on @webe_lit has since been removed along with the account.
But there’s more.
Frustrated mom turns to Citizens Defending Freedom
The student later told Brown’s daughter that she was going to target her mother and ‘beat her ass,’ the mom said.
Brown, of Plant City, said she was alerted to the video and went to the school to demand that the student be removed from class, only for her request to be denied.
At one point the mom is thought to lobbied to have the un-named black girl arrested.
A report by Citizens Defending Freedom told of the mom seeking to gain a protective order against the student who made the video.
The mom emotionally recounted her story at a meeting of the Polk County School Board last week, telling members that the bully was allowed to remain in school while her daughter stayed home out of fear.
Speaking to the nypost, Brown said school administrators eventually told her not to return to the school to protest their handling of the case or she would face trespassing charges.
‘No mother should have to fight this hard to have her child protected,’ the parent told the tabloid. ‘And I hope with all the noise I’m making that no mom has to fight this hard again.’
The district last month released a statement to parents asserting that it could not discipline her daughter’s bully because the activity did not take place on campus.
Officials said they investigated the incident but found no history of bullying between the two students and that they had been friendly with each other.
‘The parent’s behavior has escalated to a point of disrupting school operations, which resulted in her being trespassed from campus,’ the district said in the statement, adding that the district aided her in alerting local police.
Brown denies that the district initially helping her to escalate the matter legally, and told her she should only go through the school.
Investigators and Prosecutors alleged to be probing incident
‘It is not uncommon for students, especially children of this age, to do foolish things on social media,’ the school’s statement continued. ‘We take all of these incidents seriously and investigate them to determine if there is a credible threat to anyone’s safety.’
Brown said she contacted cops, and that the State Attorney’s Office who is now probing the alleged incident.
According to Citizens Defending Freedom, Polk County Sheriff’s Office asserted charges having been filed against the black 11 year old girl. To date it remained unclear if the girl had ever been charged and whether she continued to attend school.
Brown’s daughter, who did not return to class for the remaining 10 days of the school year, will attend another school next year.
‘I wanted that little girl suspended for the rest of the year,’ Brown said. ‘She should have been removed instantly.’
