Alaila Everett, a senior at I.C. Norcom High School in a new video thanked her family members and others for supporting and believing that she was incapable of intentionally hitting her competitor with an iron baton during a relay.

At the rally organised for her, Everett tearfully maintained her innocence claiming that the assault was an accident

In her words: “I would never harm anybody. I’m not a fighter, I’m not even confrontational, I wouldn’t even do that on purpose, and I thank y’all for believing in me. I love y’all.”

Alaila Everett has been charged with assault and battery after hitting high school junior Kaelen Tucker in the head with a baton during a relay in Virginia.

Tucker was taken to the hospital where she was found to have a concussion and a possible skull fracture.

However people attended the rally of the 18-year-old High School runner held outside her school to show support for the backlashes she has been receiving on the social media, believing that she was wrongly accused of purposely attacking another track star.