Lubbock-Cooper High School senior DeTayevion “Taye” Lang—a 17-year-old Black student with a straight-A average—is currently getting a crash course in West Texas “justice”. On January 17, 2026, Taye attended an off-campus bonfire, which apparently turned into a scene out of a bad movie when a group of individuals allegedly chased him down and beat him so severely he had to flee in a vehicle. He ended up in the hospital with a visible head injury, while the attackers presumably went home to get a good night’s sleep before church the next morning.
The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office has responded with all the urgency of a hibernating turtle. Despite the victim identifying his attackers and the NAACP pointing out that three weeks is plenty of time to read a statement, the authorities are hiding behind the word “complexity”. They even issued a statement suggesting that the community is just too “blessed” and unfamiliar with the legal system to understand why arrests haven’t happened yet. It’s a bold strategy: gaslighting a family while they wait for accountability.
Meanwhile, the Lubbock Coalition of Black Democrats and the NAACP are holding press conferences because, strangely enough, they believe a brutal assault on a student warrants more than an “investigations take time” shrug from the Sheriff. While the school district and law enforcement remain tight-lipped about internal investigations or potential charges, the community is left wondering if the “racial dynamics” mentioned by advocates are the real reason the wheels of justice have suddenly lost their lug nuts.
In a town where we can build a new car wash in twenty minutes, why does it take twenty days to figure out who jumped a kid at a bonfire?
https://www.kcbd.com/2026/02/07/family-seeks-justice-after-high-school-student-attacked-bonfire/