Crime & Safety
Simley High Student Restrained by School Resource Officer
The student, who had been sent home earlier in the day, did not "comply with directives from administrators," Simley's principal says in an email. Classes proceeded after the incident.
A student was restrained by a school resource officer Friday afternoon when the student attempted to re-enter the school after being sent home earlier in the day.
In an email sent out by the school after classes Friday, Simley Principal Gerald Sakala says the student entered the building at about 1:35 p.m., which is between sixth- and seventh-hour classes at Simley.
The student “refused to comply with directives from administrators,” Sakala says in the email, and was restrained by the officer. The incident was seen by several students moving between classes.
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Seventh-hour classes went on as normal, Sakala says in the email.
The email did not address why the student was sent home earlier in the day.
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The Inver Grove Heights school district partners with the Inver Grove Heights Police Department to have a sworn police officer serve as the district’s school resource officer. read the story Patch posted in August about the success of the school resource officer program.
Simley officials—including Sakala—were not available for additional comments Friday afternoon.
