Florida school campus monitor slammed student to the ground for using the N-word
A video of a Florida school monitor shows him lifting a student in the air by his neck and then pushing him a few times. The incident took place in Kissimmee, Fla. The student allegedly used the N-word and the recently hired aide. The community is outraged over the monitor’s actions, and parents of the teen have began the process of pressing charges according to WESH 2. Chris Ferguson works at Tohopekaliga High School, has been charged with one count of child abuse without great bodily harm for the incident. The crime is considered a felony in the third degree in Florida.
Video of the incident has been circulated on social media, but the cellphone video didn’t capture what happened before the incident. Ferguson was recently hired by the school on March 28 was arrested, according to WKMG Orlando. Witnesses told law enforcement officials the incident happened after Ferguson overheard the conversation using the N-word while the teens were in-house suspension. He then walked up to the student and told him “He could not speak like that.”
A police report from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office says Ferguson talked to the teen before the class was over, however upon dismissal, heard him say to his girlfriend that he was “in (his) feelings.”
This is what allegedly triggered the monitor’s violent response.
The initial investigation alleges the 26-year-old snatched the student “by the shirt and neck and lifted him up to the ceiling, leaving red marks over his neck and chest area.” Then Ferguson slammed the boy to the floor.
The video showed the employee continuing after the child, shoving him. A female student attempts to get Ferguson off of her schoolmate, saying, “Get the (expletive) away,” as the boy yells to his friends, “I ain’t no little n**ga.”
The teen was escorted to the school’s nurse after the incident. Officials revealed the boy’s mother was contacted about the assault and decided to press charges. A parent of a student at the school talked, to the news station to the incident saying everyone “has to be conscious of what they are saying,” but still says the incident was “concerning” to her.
“I don’t think at any time it is appropriate to put your hands on a child,” the mother said. “I will say that we are in the current situation where like racial tensions are very high.”
Ferguson has since bonded out of the Osceola County jail and resigned from his job with the school.
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