CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The parents of a student at Ardrey Kell High School have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system of violating their daughter’s constitutional rights.

Their daughter was one of three students who painted the spirit rock at Ardrey Kell High School after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

School district officials called the painting vandalism at the time and said they had contacted law enforcement for a criminal investigation.

Weeks later, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools publicly walked that message back, saying the student had not vandalized the rock, and that there was never a criminal investigation.

The lawsuit, filed Monday, Dec. 8 in the Western District of North Carolina, says the district’s updated message came after weeks of

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