A 27-year-old substitute teacher arrested in Las Vegas on Thursday after he was caught on video punching a high school student and calling the teacher a racial slur was released without bail.
What are the details?
Raekwon Smith was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after his arrest Thursday. The Las Vegas Review Journal reportedIt added that Smith appeared in court Friday afternoon in shackles and wearing street clothes before hearing officer Daniel Westmeyer.
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Westmeyer rescinded Smith’s $9,000 bail and released him because it was determined that he had no criminal history and was not a flight risk. KLAS-TV reported.
The department added that Smith’s release is conditional on him avoiding further arrest or citations, not returning to Valley High School, or having contact with the students involved. According to KLAS, Smith is scheduled to appear in court on May 27th.
What is your background?
Initially KLAS said In the video report, sources said a student used a racial slur toward a teacher and that Thursday’s fight started after a teacher asked a student to leave after using the N-word in a classroom. ing.
A clip of the fight in the KLAS video report shows the teacher knocking down the student after several punches.
But that’s not all that was captured on video.
a Longer raw video of the fight It shows a smaller student continuing to chase and swing the larger teacher, even though the teacher easily knocks the student 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?” As schoolmates helped the students to their feet, the teacher, whose shirt was torn, yelled, “You’ve lost your mind, kid!” But the clearly dazed student said, “I’m going to jail. [N-word]! ” to the teacher and actually laughed before a campus security guard removed the student.
According to KLAS, Smith is charged with assault causing serious bodily injury, assault on school property, vehicle or activity against a student, threatening physical harm to a public school student and obstructing a student from commuting to school. He was indicted.
According to the police, 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, making him ineligible to serve as a substitute in the district. he added.
KLAS announced that students were also arrested. KNTV TV reported Sources said the student was recovering in 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. “
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