US teacher arrested at school board meeting for questioning boss' pay rise

The teacher was roughed up by a marshal. Photo / AP

A teacher in Louisiana, US, left a public school board meeting in handcuffs on Monday after she raised pay inequality issues with her superintendent.

During the public comment part of the school board meeting, teacher Deyshia Hargrave questioned her superintendent for giving himself a pay rise while teachers and administrators had to go without one.

According to KATC TV-3, the English teacher at Rene Rost Middle School was asked to leave the meeting for asking questions instead of making statements.

A city marshal walked Hargrave into a hallway and began roughing her up, footage shows.

"Stop resisting," the marshal says while handcuffing the teacher.

"I'm not — you just pushed me to the floor," she responds nervously.

"Hold on, I am way smaller than you," she adds.

According to reports, Hargrave was asked to leave for asking questions even though her questions were being answered. The superintendent became irritated when she raised the issue of the pay rise, which she called "a slap in the face" for those who'd gone without pay rises for years.