Two college students have been arrested after violently beating a trainer at a highschool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday, in accordance with the Fort Lauderdale Police Division.
The altercation, captured on video, reveals Jayvis L. McClover, 19, and Roddrick McQueen, 19, method a trainer at Dillard Excessive Faculty at roughly 2 p.m. on Thursday, “verbally threatening to assault him,” police stated.
The 2, who’re each enrolled at Dillard Excessive Faculty, then “deliberately launched a synchronized bodily assault” on the trainer. McClover and McQueen “repeatedly punched the trainer within the face and head with closed fists,” inflicting the educator to fall to the bottom, police stated.
The scholars continued to punch the trainer whereas he was on the bottom “in a fetal place trying to protect himself in opposition to harm,” police stated.
Dillard Excessive Faculty safety employees intervened to tug the 2 college students away from the trainer, who suffered accidents to his face within the type of “swelling and bruising and reported ache in his again because of the assault.”
McClover and McQueen have been each charged with battery on a public or personal training worker, in accordance with police. It was not instantly clear if that they had authorized illustration.
Jayvis McClover and Roddrick McQueen in police reserving photographs.
Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace
Daniel Foganholi Sr., board member for the Florida Division of Schooling, said in a statement that the incident was a “failure of respect, self-discipline and accountability.”
“No educator ought to concern for his or her security whereas doing their job. Colleges have to be locations of studying, not battlegrounds,” Foganholi stated.
He emphasised the necessity for options to stop these incidents from taking place, together with “stronger disciplinary insurance policies, higher safety measures and a tradition that respects and protects our lecturers.”
“If we fail to behave, we fail our educators, our college students and our future,” Foganholi stated. “Sufficient is sufficient.”
Each McClover and McQueen have been ordered to not return to Dillard Excessive Faculty, in accordance with courtroom data.
