The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a school district, a sheriff and several others over the arrest of a teen who was expelled after uploading a "Walking Dead" video showing him shooting virtual zombies in his Southern Indiana high school.
Sean Small's First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated in the arrest and in the aftermath, when he was taken to jail and later expelled from Scott County High School, the lawsuit says. Small also has suffered emotional and reputational harm, it says, and the expulsion and disciplinary record are likely to cause him harm in the future.
Lawsuits represent only one side of a case. Scott County School District 2 did not immediately have a comment Tuesday afternoon.
Small, 18, was arrested in August 2018 after using the "Walking Dead: Our World" smartphone app and video game to create a first-person computer-generated video of himself walking through the halls of the school while shooting virtual zombies. The video was posted with the caption, "Finally something better than pokemon go," a reference to the popular Pokemon GO smartphone game that uses a similar first-person location-based interface.
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