Four former employees of Midland Christian School in Texas and a current employee who says he was demoted from his assistant principal role filed a federal lawsuit today against the City of Midland and three police officers.
The “Midland Christian Five” — as the lawsuit characterizes the plaintiffs — “are five career educators who responded reasonably, appropriately, and with integrity to a locker room incident involving horseplay among members of Midland Christian School’s high school baseball team,” according to the civil petition filed in U.S. District Court in Midland.
“The Defendants are law enforcement authorities who — in a remarkable abuse of power — arrested these educators as retaliation for the educators asserting their Constitutional rights while complying with their professional duties and federal law,” the lawsuit alleges. “To make these false arrests, the Defendants lied and omitted material facts about the Midland Christian Five’s…
