The two 19-year-old Florida high school students are accused of brutally beating their teachers in a police officer called “synchronized physical attacks,” filmed on video.
Fort Lauderdale Police Station He told ABC News Jayvis L. McClover and Roddrick McQueen approached a teacher at Dillard High School at around 2pm on March 13th, “threatening to verbally attack him.”
One student told WPLG in the video that the teacher was “discussing with the students” and “he cursed them and said, 'I'm going to fight you after school.'
Police reported that McRober and McQueen, both registered with the school, fell to the ground after saying they “deliberately synchronized physical attacks” against the teacher and “punched the teacher repeatedly in his face and head with fists.”
Police said students continued to punch teachers while they were on the ground “in the fetal position trying to protect themselves from injuries.”
The school's security staff separated two students from their teachers. The teacher “reported pain in his back as a result of the attack,” the news network said.
Both McClover and McQueen were charged with the battery of public or private education employees, police told ABC News.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office told Blaze News Thursday that McClover was released from prison on a $15,000 bond on March 14, while McQueen was released from prison on March 16 but without electronic monitoring. WPLG-TV has been added The McQueen was placed under house arrest on a GPS monitor.
Both McClover and McQueen said they were ordered not to return to high school, citing court records.
You can view video reports here About the incident; note that this includes a beatdown mobile phone clip and that the educator in question is an alternative teacher.
The video also features on-camera interviews with five individuals (obviously school students) who smiled and laughed when describing the argument. Several of them accused the teacher of “provoking” two arrested students.
One student told WPLG in the video that the teacher was “discussing with the students” and that “he cursed them and said, 'I'm going to fight you after school.'
The video report added that school officials are reviewing the entire incident and “teacher's actions.”
Daniel Foganholi Sr., a board member of the Florida Department of Education; said in a statement The incident was a “failure of respect, discipline and accountability,” ABC News reported.
“Educators should not be afraid of safety while doing their jobs,” Foganholi said, according to the news network. “Schools must be a place of learning, not a battlefield.”
He highlighted the need for “a stronger disciplinary policy, better security measures, and a culture that respects and protects teachers,” ABC News said.
“If we don't act, we'll fail in the educators, students, and in the future,” Foganholi said. “As ample enough.”
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