Students Walk Out After Student Was Pinned Down By Louisville Teacher Who Allegedly Told the Teen He Would Be ‘Another Black Boy Shot’
A Louisville, Kentucky High school students put together a staged walkout on Aug 24 after a encounter involving a teacher and student the day before. A video shows Kentucky teacher seen pinning a Black student to the floor and gripping his hair. The teacher has since been reassigned to no instructional duties according to a spokesperson for the Jefferson County Public Schools.
“There was a physical altercation at Marion C. Moore School between a student and a teacher,” JCPS spokeswoman Renee Murphy stated. “A full review of the matter is currently underway and during this time the teacher will not be in the classroom.”
Students still called for the teacher to be fired during the Tuesday protest. The walk-out, followed a protest outside the school the previous day after the video started circulating on social media. The walk-out was approved by administration beforehand and students agreed to stay on school grounds.
“We are not standing for [any] type of racism. We are not standing for [any] type of bigotry. We are not standing for [anything] but what’s right at this point in justice,” local man Bradley Temple told WLKY.
On Aug. 23 the fight broke out in a hallway at the Louisville school between 16-year-old Jamir Strane and a chemistry teacher who has been identified as William Bennett which started after an argument about the student’s bandana-style face covering.
The video was recorded by a student once it started Strane is pinned to the ground and Bennett is on top of him
“Get off him!” students standing in the hallway yell. Some students attempted to intervene and attempted to pull Bennett off Strane. Other adults entered the struggle and lifted Bennett off the student. But Strane continued striking Bennett, the teacher gripped the teenager’s hair.
“Let go of him!” students can be heard saying.
Strane was suspended for 10 days and faces an assault charge. He told WDRB Bennett made comments that provoked him before the fight, but admitted he initiated the physical confrontation.
“He said, ‘You’re just going to be another Black boy shot,’” said Strane. “I’m going to put it in English. He said that you’re just going to end up in the streets dead, in my mind, like all my friends.”
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