A Clayton County parent faces multiple charges after she allegedly swung at a school resource officer in a local middle school and had to be pepper-sprayed to be subdued, Channel 2 Action News reports.
Betty Anne Richardson, 44, of Jonesboro was arrested Monday morning during the incident at Sequoyah Middle School.
Richardson first drove against the flow of traffic as parents were dropping off their children at the school, then got into a confrontation with the school resource officer who stopped her after the woman refused to sign into the building, authorities said.
“Apparently she swung on our officer. The officer defended themselves and used proper use of force,” Shawn Southerland of the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office told Channel 2, referring to the use of pepper spray.
“Anytime you got somebody unauthorized inside a school, we consider that a big deal,” Southerland said.
Richardson was being held Monday night in Clayton County Jail on charges of simple battery, obstructing an officer and disrupting the operation of a public school, according to the Clayton Sheriff’s Office.
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