An assistant football coach at Blanche Ely High School has bonded out of jail after being accused of punching four students in a viral video.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jamir Clarke was seen leaving jail Thursday afternoon after being charged with four counts of child abuse without great bodily harm after, authorities said, he got into a physical altercation with four different students while they were inside a weight room during football practice, at around 4 p.m. Monday.
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, when players on the team criticized Clarke’s nephew, the team’s quarterback, he attacked.
In the arrest report, authorities claim “Clarke struck [victim] in the face with a closed fist” and “after punching [victim] the rest of the team rushed Clarke who then began swinging punches