College students at a highschool in Queens, N.Y., reportedly stormed the hallways after studying a instructor attended a pro-Israel protest Monday.
Based on the New York Police Division (NYPD), college security brokers at Hillcrest Excessive College “requested the response of the varsity sergeant in regard to a disorderly group of scholars within the situation.” When the sergeant responded, the scholars reportedly “dispersed.”
The New York Put up reported Saturday that the disturbance started over what college students known as a protest that was already deliberate on account of a instructor’s Fb profile photograph that confirmed her at a pro-Israel rally final month holding a poster that mentioned “I stand with Israel.”
“The instructor was seen holding an indication of Israel, like supporting it,” a senior reportedly advised The New York Put up.
“A bunch of youngsters determined to make a gaggle chat, expose her, discuss it, after which discuss beginning a riot,” the senior continued.
Alleged video of the incident appeared to indicate college students working by way of and leaping in hallways.
The scholars tried to get into the instructor’s classroom, in keeping with The New York Put up. The instructor hid in a locked workplace as a result of alleged riot.
“I’ve been a instructor for 23 years within the New York Metropolis public college system — for the final seven at Hillcrest Excessive College. I’ve labored exhausting to be supportive of our complete pupil physique and an advocate for our neighborhood, and was shaken to my core by the calls to violence towards me that occurred on-line and out of doors my classroom final week,” the instructor mentioned in an announcement to The New York Put up.
“Nobody ought to ever really feel unsafe in school — college students and academics alike,” she continued.
The Hill has reached out to New York Metropolis Public Faculties.
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