Teacher punches HS student, knocks him to floor amid their fight — allegedly after student used racial slur against teacher

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The Blaze

Dave Urbanski

April 26, 2024

A 27-year-old substitute teacher repeatedly punched a Las Vegas high school student and knocked him to a hallway floor amid their fight caught on video Thursday — and KLAS-TV reported that it occurred after the student allegedly used a racial slur against the teacher.

What are the details?

Sources told the station that the Clark County School District Police Department is using video recorded inside Valley High School as evidence.

 

KLAS, citing sources, noted in its video report that the student used a racial slur against the teacher, and that it all allegedly started in a classroom when the teacher asked the student to leave after he used the N-word.

A longer raw video of the fight shows the smaller student continually going after and swinging at the larger teacher, even though the teacher easily knocks the student to the floor not once but twice. Other students intervene, and the teacher walks away amid a throng of onlookers.

 

Another raw clip offers a close-up of the teacher knocking the student to the floor for the final time, hovering over him, hitting him in the head, and yelling, "Are you crazy?" After schoolmates bring the student to his feet, the teacher — whose shirt is torn open — hollers, "You lost your motherf***ing mind, boy!" But the apparently dazed student hollers what sounds like, "You're goin' to jail, [N-word]!" at the teacher and actually laughs before a campus security monitor leads the student away.

School district police identified the teacher as 27-year-old Re’Kwon Smith, KLAS said.

Smith is charged with battery resulting in serious bodily harm, assault on a school pupil on school property/vehicle/activity, threatening to do bodily harm to a public school student, and interfering with a student from attending school, the station said.

KLAS said Smith is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on $9,000 bail, and he's scheduled to appear in court Friday.

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Top Comment

 Censored Commenter 3 hours ago

Sorry, but I firmly stand behind the teacher in this. In fact, schools need more like him. When students step over the line, you NEED a man to shove them back over it, and it is very clear that the student attacked the teacher several times, forcing him to respond in kind.

Think about it: you're walking down the street, some random guy comes up and punches you, you knock him the **** out. Cops show up and arrest both of you, because "violence is unacceptable."

What...the...****?! No kidding! So how the hell do you stop violence? By disincentivizing it with ACTUAL, REAL-WORLD IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES. If the teacher punched the little punk into the middle of next week, the teacher deserves a commendation and a raise. NOT jail.