From KXAN News
“Nathaniel Karle’s brother answered a knock at the door on April 15, then called back into the house for Nathaniel to come to the porch. There was a uniformed officer there who needed to speak with him.
Body camera footage of the encounter shows 17-year-old Nathaniel stoically step outside to face the constable. Beneath the surface, Nathaniel was feeling the opposite, he later told KXAN in an interview.
“I was so scared. I was like, ‘This is my day. I’m going to jail,’” Nathaniel said.
Fortunately, the constable was holding a clipboard, not handcuffs. Nathaniel soon learned he wasn’t going to jail. The constable was serving him papers and referring him to court for truant conduct – the legal term for missing too much school. He had over 20 absences that school year at Georgetown High School.
At that point, Georgetown Independent School District decided it had done its duty to help get Nathaniel to class. Now, the courts would handle him.”
Read the full story on the KXAN News Website.