The Justice Department is siding with a black female student and the American Civil Liberties Union in a federal lawsuit against the state of South Carolina, in a case about the violent incident captured between a school police resource officer and the student that went viral in 2015.

In the case of Niya Kenny v. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, the Justice Department filed a statement with the court saying it has an interest in the case because the “alleged violations of the Due Process Clause in the administration of juvenile justice — fall squarely within the ambit of the United States’ enforcement authority.”