After a campus police officer grabbed student Ja’Liyah Celestine by the hair and kneed her in the face, she filed a federal civil rights complaint that alleged persistent racial discrimination against Black teens at her Texas high school.
But the complaint, brought by the 18-year-old in late October with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, may never get investigated.
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