A former high school assistant principal, who was suspended for allegedly using pepper spray to break up a fight between students, has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the county schools.

The personal injury complaint asks for $100,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages because it says the school racially discriminated against him.

The main charge is that the school system didn’t discipline white coaches for more brazen physical acts against other students.

The lawsuit says that the man tried to break up a fight between two students and that he was accused of using a “chemical agent” against the students.

More than two weeks after the fight, he was told he was being suspended without pay for about eight months and was demoted to teacher status.

The personal injury lawsuit says the school system “has allowed white teachers with duties as school coaches to assault students without similar treatment as experienced by plaintiff.”

Specifically, the suit said that a white coach was allowed to refer to students by the “N” word and that same white coach had slammed a student to the floor.

Stay tuned to Total Injury for more updates on this case as it develops.

Discrimination is a form of intentional injury. Check out our Intentional Injury section for more information about these types of personal injury lawsuits.