A New York teacher has been arrested and charged with endangering a child after he was caught on camera slamming a 14-year-old boy into a wall and then wrestling him to the ground.
Colin McNally, 58, taught PE and was a tennis coach at Cardozo High School in Queens. It’s unclear if he is still employed by the school.
On Wednesday, he was involved in a dramatic confrontation with an unnamed 14-year-old boy, which began when the boy was walking out of the gym with a basketball, which McNally confiscated.
The boy tried to grab the basketball back, and McNally then grabbed the boy by his shirt and shoved him against the wall.
The drama began when McNally, in shorts, took the basketball from the 14-year-old boy
The boy attempted to grab the basketball back, and McNally then grabbed the boy and shoved him against a wall
The 58-year-old pinned the boy to the wall, while shocked teachers looked on
McNally then wrestled the boy to the floor, to the shock of those standing nearby
A tussle ensued, with the strongly-built McNally throwing the boy to the ground as stunned fellow students looked on.
He dragged the boy up again, and once more pushed him to the wall.
The boy was not hurt, the school later confirmed, but McNally was arrested.
A spokesperson for the DOE told Eyewitness News, which obtained the video: ‘These are incredibly disturbing allegations, and Mr. McNally was immediately removed from the classroom away from students, pending the outcome of the investigation.’
Cardozo High School in Queens said that McNally was arrested shortly after the incident
It comes just three months after a Florida woman who was named Teacher of the Year at her school was arrested for allegedly hitting a student in the face after the girl claimed the teacher used the ‘N-word’ in class.
English teacher Caroline ‘Melanie’ Lee, 60, was booked into the Duval County Jail on a child abuse charge in November last year and made her initial court appearance on Saturday.
Lee was arrested after calling a student into her classroom to speak privately and allegedly striking the female student on the face and leaving the minor with a bloody nose, according to The Florida Times-Union, citing a Duval Schools Police report. A judge barred her from making any contact with the victim and ordered her to stay away from the school.
The confrontation was instigated by an Instagram post by Duval County Public Schools on Wednesday of Lee being named Teacher of the Year at Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School, according to the police report.
Caroline Lee, 60 (pictured lef tin her booking photo), an English teacher from Florida, has been charged with child abuse for allegedly hitting a student who publicly questioned her use of the ‘N-word’
Lee was arrested just two days after being named Teacher of The Year at Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School
On Friday, Lee allegedly struck the student in the face while having a private conversation with her at the school in Jacksonville
Several comments on the post questioned the recognition, with one user writing: ‘isnt (sic) this the teacher who thought it was ok to say the n word while reading smth (sic) for educational purposes…..’
Lee replied that she only used the slur in the context of discussing John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men.
The student shot back that saying the word ‘in anyway (sic) doesnt (sic) make it any better.’
On Friday, Lee asked to speak to the student who made the comment about her use of the racial epithet.
Lee claimed she wanted to talk to the student because she perceived her Instagram comment as a threat. The 60-year-old teacher denied physically harming the girl
When the girl got to Lee’s classroom, the student said, Lee closed the door behind her. The 5-foot-2, 117-pound teacher then reached across the table and struck the child in the face with the heel of her palm, causing her nose to bleed, according to the police report. She then allegedly continued hitting the girl on the head while calling her a ‘f***ing b****,’ News4Jax reported.
When the girl tried to stop the teacher from hitting her by grabbing her hands, Lee allegedly kicked the student in her lower leg. She then ordered the child to ‘get out.’
Lee denied physically harming the student, telling a police officer that she only wanted to talk to the student whose Instagram message she perceived as ‘a threat to kill her.’ But, she added, she was ‘not afraid’ and ‘did not feel the need’ to report the message to staff.
The 60-year-old educator, however, could not explain the girl’s bloody nose.
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