'Give me my phone!': Tennessee student pepper-sprays teacher after her phone is taken away
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: An incident at a high school in Tennessee took a bizarre turn when a student, who refused to comply, pepper-sprayed her teacher for confiscating her mobile phone. According to an alleged video circulating online, the student pepper-sprayed the teacher. One of the students captured the event on the cellphone on Friday, May 5, at Antioch High School where disciplinary action was taken.
The student was found ‘texting and Googling answers to her school work,” as per the Reddit user who posted the clip online, claiming the teacher was attacked twice. Students in the classroom can be seen laughing and joking before the student confronts the teacher in the hallway. She tried to get her phone back from her teacher. “She just pepper-sprayed me,” the teacher said in surprise to a different classroom by the time the student filming the incident enters. The female student follows her teacher, telling him, “Give me my phone!” She then holds the pepper spray close to his face before spraying him a second time, this makes the teacher fall to his knees and yell out.
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'Okay, now give me my phone'
While another adult comes out to help out from the next classroom, however, the student with the pepper spray continues to demand the teacher her confiscated mobile phone. “She pepper-sprayed me!” the teacher says once he’s back on his feet. To which the student replies, “Okay, now give me my phone.” While she persistently asks for her cell phone, another teacher steps in and tells her, “No, not now.” After the attack, the video ends with the teacher coughing, and the video’s poster reveals that it was the second time this teacher was assaulted by a student, reports New York Post.
'She should be expelled'
Earlier, he was punched in the face after taking the phone of a different student when they were apprehended for cheating in the class. The viral video on social media received several comments, where one user wrote, "Can’t wait to see the comments that will say she was justified cuz the teacher ‘stole her phone’. No, she wasn’t justified, and she should be expelled.”
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