PATERSON, N.J. — A high school student in New Jersey was arrested Friday after police said he attacked his teacher and slammed him to the floor in the classroom.
NewJersey.com reported that the 16-year-old ninth-grader faces criminal charges after the incident was captured on cell phone video.
The footage shows the teenager slamming the 62-year-old teacher to the floor in front of other students. The teacher reportedly took the student’s cell phone away and he wanted it back.
The 23-second video shows the student with his arms wrapped around the teacher, knocking him into an empty desk. The student then wrestles the teacher across the front of the classroom before slamming him to the floor.
The teen then reaches down and takes something from the teacher before breaking away when someone in the classroom yelled, “Security!”
The student has been suspended from the school and charged with assaulting a teacher in a classroom.
District officials have not revealed the name of the teacher or student.
Hang him!!!
As an elder teacher, he had no chance. I just retired and turned fifty. If that was my classroom, I would have done my best. I came close, when I was young, having to restrain a kid. I was in my mid twenties and physically strong. I would have beat the crap out of him. Watching the video, my biggest disappointment are the other kids for not stepping in and stopping it.
Send him to Iran/ iraq plenty of people over there he can push to the ground
This is very sad. A lot of kids today think this behavior is ok. A lot of it is the way they are brought up and a lot of it is the people they choose to hang with. It is easy for us to call these kids punks and whatever people choose to say. And you are right, a lot of these kids are just punks. If you are not taught right from wrong and you are not held accountable for your actions, then this kind of behavior will never change. I’m surprised that none of these kids jumped up to help the teacher. Is it because they were scared to or is it because they were amused by this. I just don’t know. So many laws have changed in the United States that makes it very hard to discipline kids. A slap on the hand or putting them behind bars is not going to fix this. They need discipline and some need rehabilitation. We need to go back in time to like the 50s through early 70s and see why things like this didn’t happen in school and what changed to allow these things to happen now. I’m sure there were some incidents back in those days, but not like today. What has changed so much that this happens every day now? The Government is a lot of the problem along with county and city officials. Changes need to start there before anything can change here. Very sad situation all the way around. We know that it would take a miracle for anything to change in Government. County and city officials pretty much have given up on making changes because they don’t have a chance if the government continues to focus on how they can make more money and how they can take more from us than worrying about all the chaos and crime that is happening in their country. The Government should consist of normal regular blue collar type people that actually see what is going on this country and want to do something about it. It should not consist of people that only care about money and that like to fight against each other for a living. Why does this country have to be so divided. It’s the democrats verses the Republicans so nothing gets done. I know it’s not all Government people. Some people that work for them don’t have a say or a choice on how things are done. It’s the higher up, the decision makers. The United States still have their freedom, but how much longer will we have that. Little by little that is being taken away as well. How many of you are scared to leave your home at night? How many of you are afraid to speak your mind because of fear of being retaliated against? How many people look the other way when they see a crime or see someone being hurt because they are afraid of what will happen to them if they intervene. Think about it!