A special needs student at Miami Northwestern Senior High has bonded out of jail following his arrest for allegedly punching his teacher.
7News cameras captured Conley Earl Williams as he walked out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade after posting $2,500 bond, Friday night. The 18-year-old remained quiet.
Williams was charged with battery of a school official.
"You get re-arrested for anything, you're going to be locked up in jail until your trial," said Judge Mindy S. Glazer. "You need to be respectful of your teachers and keep your hands to yourself if you want to have the benefit of getting your education and graduating high school."
Williams' mother, Darcheema Pierce, and his grandmother were also in court. Pierce told the judge that the teacher grabbed her son first.
"I don't even understand why the teacher is not arrested, because the teacher grabbed him first and he responded," Pierce said.
"I wasn't there," Glazer responded. "You want to speak privately with the attorney to find - let them know if they have a defense in the case and speak privately."
7News spoke with Pierce following her son's arrest.
"I don't believe that," she said. "Now, I can believe if he gets overwhelmed and grabbed her, I could believe that he grabbed her, but I don't believe that he punched her."
Pierce said her son is in special needs classes at Miami Northwestern High School and is a sweet, mild-mannered teenager.
"My son gets straight As and Bs," she said.
According to Pierce, when Williams came home from school on Thursday after this incident, he presented a different side of the story to his mother.
"The teacher told him, 'Conley, you ain't supposed to be in this class, and you didn't say good morning,' and he said the teacher grabbed him," she said.