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Brookfield, CT
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Teachers, Staff Demand More Discipline For CT Principal Accused Of Using Racial Slur
Staff members from a Connecticut school district are calling on additional discipline for a magnet school principal who was recently demoted and removed from her position after allegedly using a racial slur. Earlier this month, the New Haven Board of Education voted 4-3 to reassign Brennan-Rogers Magnet School Principal Laura Roblee from her position after she allegedly used the racial slur this winter during a workshop on racism and inclusion. According to reports, Roblee is being assigned as an assistant principal at a different district school. However, the demotion and public outcry wa…
Brookfield, CT
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Students Walk Out Of Class At High Schools In Fairfield County After Racist Post
Groups of high school students in Fairfield County walked out of class to protest recent racial incidents that came to a head following a racist social media post earlier this month. On Monday, May 24, students at Fairfield Warde High School orchestrated a mass walkout of hundreds of students that were also in collaboration with students across town at Ludlowe High School. In total, upwards of 600 students reportedly walked out in Fairfield on Monday, which lasted a few hours, featuring speeches and some of the teens sharing their own experiences with race in the area. According to the o…
Mount Pleasant, NY
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Racist Graffiti Found In Building At High School In Westchester
Police have launched an investigation into alleged racist graffiti that was found scrubbed on a poster in a high school bathroom in Westchester. Rye Schools Superintendent Eric Byrne issued a notice to the community saying that a custodian found a poster in a second-floor bathroom at the high school that had been tagged with racially charged graffiti. “A custodian found that a poster in a second-floor bathroom at Rye High School announcing a Class of 2022 fundraiser at Chipotle restaurant had been defaced,” he said. “It is not yet clear to us if any student saw the graffiti. We are rev…
Mahopac, NY
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Calls For Area Teacher To Be Fired Over Allegedly Racist George Floyd Assignment Grow
Calls for a Hudson Valley teacher to either be fired or resign are growing over what many are calling a racist assignment. The controversy began last week in Ulster County when Saugerties High School English teacher Hope Antonelli, gave her ninth-grade English class a writing assignment stating that “George Floyd did not die because (Derek) Chauvin’s knee was on his neck. He died from a heart attack and drug overdose.” Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday, April 20 for killing Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more…
Brookfield, CT
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Teen Accused Of Making Racist Online Post Targeting Fellow Fairfield Warde Student
A teenager in Fairfield County is facing a lengthy suspension and possible expulsion after allegedly making a racist online post that targeted another student. Police in the Town of Fairfield and the NAACP were called in to investigate allegations that the student at Fairfield Warde High School shared the racist online post. According to reports, the student - whose name has not been released - posted a picture of the victim along with a racist comment that states he “should be in chains.” It is unclear why the student shared the message. “I am writing to inform you of a racist incident …
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Bias Incidents Investigated At Bergen School Whose Principal Remains Suspended
A Bergen County school already unsettled by the suspension of its principal earlier this year is now dealing with a pair of bias incidents -- one a racial slur written in a boy’s bathroom and another an anonymous email to a staffer that “signifies slavery.” Police and school district officials in Wyckoff said they were working together to determine who was responsible for the bias incidents at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School. “Sadly there have been several incidents of racism, cultural insensitivity and an overall lack of acceptance for those who appear to be different than ourselves,” V…
Jersey City, NJ
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Daughter Of Jersey City Teacher Who Went On Racist Tirade During Class Apologizes To Students
"You did nothing to deserve this treatment." That's the message Aliya Jackson had for the Jersey City's Dickinson High School students who sat helplessly in an online class her father went on a racist and profane tirade, according to NJ Advance Media. Twice. Howard Zlotkin, who taught the Landscape Design class at Dickinson High School, has since been suspended for the incidents in which he vocalized his sentiments on the Black Lives Matter movement, George Floyd and more, students told NBC New York. "I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter," Zlotkin says, "but Geor…
Brookfield, CT
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Racist Remarks Made At Fairfield County Meeting Being Investigated As Hate Crime, Police Say
A hate crime investigation is underway in one Fairfield County town after an unknown person joined a video conference meeting and allegedly made racist remarks. The incident took place on Thursday, April 22, during a meeting of the Racial Equity and Justice Task Force in Fairfield, Police Chief Robert Kalamaras said. According to Kalamaras, the task force was hosting a virtual meeting among its members when an unknown person who had joined the meeting began to share a screen using images of slaves before making racial epithets and racist remarks to the group. "Some of the r…
Englewood, NJ
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Zoom Trolls Disrupt Asian-American NJ Church Service With Ethnic Slurs, Porn
Trolls hijacked the virtual service of a predominately Asian-American church in Bergen County, uttering ethnic slurs and posting pornographic images, authorities said. More than 150 congregants and others with the Englewood church were subject to the bias attack on Zoom, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Saturday. Although invasions of video conferences were once dismissed as trolling, that changed once the spread of COVID-19 made Zoom the app of choice for many forced to communicate remotely. The FBI considers the systemic “weaponization” of Zoom as hate speech and harassment. In o…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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'Pick My Cotton': Police Investigate TikTok Comments That Terrorized Elmwood Park Girl, 12
After all these months of remote learning, an Elmwood Park mom couldn’t figure out why her 7th-grade daughter resisted returning to a classroom. “She begged me not to send her back,” the young mom said. “I couldn’t understand why. She is well-liked and intelligent. It didn’t make sense.” Then her daughter showed her screen shots of racist comments left under a TikTok video of her dancing with friends by three male students at Elmwood Park Memorial Middle School. A sampling: “KKK for life” “pick my cotton I need some more” “when I find you you will pay for escaping the farm” “HISPANIC L…
Bristol, PA
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DA: Bucks Teen Gets Off With Sensitivity Training After Making Racist Threats On Social Media
A 19-year-old Chalfont man who reportedly made racist and threatening comments on a social media video posted in July was ordered to undergo racial sensitivity training, authorities announced. Andrew J. Smith pleaded guilty Wednesday to harassment and was also sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Diane E. Gibbons to a year of probation, mental health assessments, and continued racial sensitivity training at The Peace Center in Langhorne and at Good Shepard Mediation in Philadelphia, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. The racial sensitivity training was an arrange…
Jersey City, NJ
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Hudson Prosecutor's Office Workers Probed For 'Offensive & Sickening' Comments
Employees of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office are the center of an investigation after reportedly making offensive and racist comments, several news outlets say. Assistant Prosecutor Bill Specht and agent Kelly Taylor-Sisk are being probed by Hudson County Counsel, while clerk Debra Collins was issued a three-day suspension for offensive comments, HCPO Spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said. Specht has been stripped of any supervisory or prosecutional authority pending the outcome of the investigation, Morrill added. Screenshots show that Specht made the racist comment while disc…
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