{"id":1417116,"date":"2022-04-03T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417116"},"modified":"2022-04-03T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:15:01","slug":"teen-runner-sucker-punched-during-high-school-race-considers-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-runner-sucker-punched-during-high-school-race-considers-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Runner Sucker Punched During High School Race Considers Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteen-runner-sucker-punched-during-high-school-race-considers-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417116&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Florida teen sucker-punched by another student during a high school race is considering filing a lawsuit against the boy who ran onto the track and attacked from behind last month.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of March, violence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/31\/watch-high-school-runner-viciously-attacked-during-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">erupted<\/a> during the 1,600-meter race at the Tohopekaliga Tiger Invitational in Kissimmee, Florida, when the first-place runner was brutally assaulted in the middle of his run.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to reports, the teen who was in first place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/31\/watch-high-school-runner-viciously-attacked-during-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> yelled at another student to move because he was partially blocking the track.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of staying off the track, though, the student who was not a contestant in the race apparently walked out onto the track and stood directly in the front-place runner\u2019s path on the next lap, causing the runner to shove the student aside.<\/p>\n<p>That shove apparently spurred the student to chase after the first-place runner and deliver a vicious sucker punch to the back of the first-place runner\u2019s head. The unexpected blow caused the runner to tumble to the ground, according to video of the incident.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">High school track race fight club <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0nbDRz5Iur\">pic.twitter.com\/0nbDRz5Iur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baseball Fight Club (@mlb_fights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlb_fights\/status\/1508925010483814400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Attorney Nathan Carter later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/04\/02\/sucker-punch-high-school-track-runner-press-charges-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> TMZ that the assaulted runner suffered a concussion and is now considering a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Carter also noted that the police spokesman who said the assaulted runner was not interested in pressing charges was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family has read reports that the OCSD claims [my client] refused to press charges. This is false,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n<p>Carter added that the reason no charges were immediately filed is that the sheriff\u2019s deputy threatened to arrest the victim, too, if he pressed charges.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said that prosecutors later told the family that the police officer was wrong, and now it appears official charges against the attacker have not been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida teen sucker-punched by another student during a high school race is considering filing a lawsuit against the boy who ran onto the track and attacked from behind last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}