Court: No unemployment comp for brawling school security guard

A private D.C. high school security guard who was fired after she provoked her boss into a lunchtime brawl won’t receive the unemployment benefits she requested, the D.C. Court of Appeals has ruled.

Angel Brown was hired by Hawk One Security on March 22, 2007, and posted at Ballou Senior High School in Southeast. Her job with the now-bankrupt security company lasted less than a year. She and her boss, Hawk One employee Sgt. Diane Williams, were both fired soon after their March 11, 2008, fight. Brown applied for unemployment benefits, and was denied.