A 27-year-old substitute teacher was caught on video Thursday punching a Las Vegas high school student multiple times and knocking him to the hallway floor during a fight. KLAS-TV reported The incident occurred after a student allegedly used a racial slur against a teacher.
What are the details?
Officials told the station that the Clark County School District Police Department is using video recorded inside Valley High School as evidence.
KLAS cited sources as saying it all started in a classroom when a student used a racial slur toward a teacher and the teacher asked a student who used the N-word to leave the room in a video report. It pointed out.
a Longer raw video of the fight It shows a smaller student continuing to chase and swing his larger teacher around, even though the teacher easily knocks him to the floor not once, but twice. Other students intervened and the teacher walked away through the crowd of onlookers.
Another raw clip At the end, the teacher slams the student to the floor, climbs on top of him, punches him in the head, and provides a close-up of the student yelling, “Are you crazy?” When her classmates pulled her to her feet, the teacher yelled, “You lost her mother’s heart, kid!” However, the seemingly dazed student actually laughed and yelled words similar to the N-word at the teacher before campus security guards removed the student.
School district police identified the teacher as 27-year-old Raekwon Smith, according to KLAS.
Police say Smith faces charges of causing serious bodily injury, assaulting a student on school property, vehicle or activity, threatening physical harm to a public school student and obstructing a student from commuting to school. He has been indicted.
Smith is being held in the Clark County Detention Center on $9,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday, according to KLAS.
The department said the district hired Smith in November and assigned him to the high school, but police say the district plans to remove Smith from the list of alternate candidates and is not eligible to serve as a substitute in the district. He added that he said.
KLAS announced that students were also arrested. KNTV TV reported Officials said the student is recovering at the hospital.
Another student told KNTV that the student seen in the video (a close friend) is “currently in the hospital but doesn’t really remember what happened…he has a concussion and “He has scratches all over his body.” face. ”
“Violence in any form is unacceptable and violates fundamental principles of education and respect. Any altercation between a teacher and student will be thoroughly investigated and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken,” the school district said Thursday, according to KLAS. You can.”
This story has been updated.
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