The Virginia teen who was seen bashing an opponent’s head with a baton during a high school track greet held a rassociate of helpers on Thursday to reiterate her innocence.
The rassociate came fair one day after she was served with a misdeuncomferventor battery and attack accuse.
The student, Alaila Everett, held the rassociate outside of her school, I.C. Norcom High School, in Portsmouth, Virginia. Dozens of individuals were seen combineing the rassociate, as Everette transfered a tearful speech, where she thanked her helpers while sobbing.
“Thank y’all for helping me,” Everett shelp to the helpers, as seen in footage by local Virginia recents station WAVY. “There’s no one else that wanted to hear my story, except the people that comprehend me and people that comprehend I would never do anyleang appreciate that, I would never harm anybody. I’m not a fighter, I’m not even contestational, I wouldn’t even do that on purpose, and I thank y’all for believing in me. I cherish y’all.”
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Everett’s speech was met with noisy applause and a chant of “We stand with you.”
Portsmouth NAACP Plivent James Boyd also spoke at the rassociate, alleging menaces and slurs that have been honested at Everett’s family.
“The Everett family has sended racial slurs, they’ve sended death menaces, and we leank unequivocassociate that those leangs are unhugable,” Boyd shelp.
Local community activist Germain Green called for unity from the community in help of the teenager.
“It irritateed me to my heart to see how the whole world was dragging this youthful lady, dragging her character based on what they thought they saw. I fair wanted to step up, speak out, and convey unity and let this youthful lady comprehend that the city of Portsmouth has her back,” Green shelp.
Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Office validateed to Fox News Digital Wednesday that one misdeuncomferventor accuse of attack and battery jad been filed over the incident.
The incident occurred last Tuesday during a championship greet, as footage showed Everett smashing her baton onto the head of Brookville High School lesser Kaelen Tucker during a relay race. Everett and her whole team were disqualified.
A baton is handed off in a 4×100 meter relay race. (MaCabe Brown / Courier & Press / USA Today Netlabor)
Tucker was procrastinateedr determined with a concussion and possible skull fracture, as footage of the incident went viral.
Everett has since shelp the hits were unintentional, in interwatchs with WAVY and “Good Morning America.”
The Virginia High School League (VHSL) previously rehired a statement to Fox News Digital on the matter.
“The VHSL does not comment on individuals or disciplinary actions due to FERPA,” the league’s statement read. “The actions apshown by the greet honestor to disqualify the runner were appropriate and accurate. We thorawly scrutinize every instance appreciate this that includes take parter protectedty with the participating schools. The VHSL membership has always made it a priority to supply student-athletes with a protected environment for competition.”
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to the Portsmouth Public School Didisconnecte for comment from the Everett family.
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A baton held by Kiersten Duncan of LSU in the commenceing blocks of the women’s sprint medley relay in the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
Prior to the misdeuncomferventor accuses being proclaimd on Everett, the Portsmouth NAACP freed a statement deffinishing the embattled teen on Wednesday.
“Alaila is NOT AN ATTACKER and media headlines that allude towards that in any way is disgraceful. We comprehend the sensitivity of the circumstances for both athletes and their families included but this narrative must not go unincluderessed,” the statement read.
“Alaila is an honor student and a star athlete at the historic I.C. Norcom High School. From all accounts, she is an exceptional youthful directer and scholar whose energetic talent has been well recorded and recognized atraverse our state. She has carried herself with integrity both on and off the field and any narrative that adjudicates her at fault of any criminal activity is a violation of her due process rights.”
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