Two Mead High football players allege assaults, racial bullying following last year's camp incidents

Two Mead High School students say they were threatened, assaulted and “racially bullied” for months following football player assaults that Mead School District mishandled, according to tort claims filed on behalf of the students and their families. The incidents stem from June 2023, when a group of Mead High football players restrained two teammates and applied a “massage gun” to their private parts at a football camp at Eastern Washington University, according to an investigation by the district. “The camp had a history of racial harassment, assaults, and intolerance being...