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VIDEO: Teacher punches bully, won’t be charged
It does my heart good to see a punk like this get his arrogant ass handed to him by a 64-year-old teacher. If his parents had raised him with any sense of decency, this wouldn’t have even happened. Luckily, the teacher in this video didn’t mind giving a little extra credit assignment to a student who desperately needed to learn some manners. (h/t: Mike Gallagher)
BROOKSVILLE — Sandra Hadsock clenched her teeth, balled up her right fist and closed her eyes. The 5-foot-5 art teacher’s first punch was a wild haymaker, just glancing the towering student’s right cheek.
Then, as she drew her arm back again, Hadsock gripped the boy’s jacket collar and leveled a right cross, catching him square on the jaw. His head snapped to the side and his mess of orange hair blew back.
Now, three weeks after the incident was caught on a student’s cell phone videocamera, the State Attorney’s Office has decided not to file criminal charges against Hadsock, who had been arrested on a single count of child abuse.
Hadsock landed at least one punch on the student’s face, causing a minor cut on his lip, authorities said. But the video doesn’t provide conclusive evidence that the 64-year-old veteran teacher wasn’t acting in self-defense when she swung at the student who called her vulgar names, prosecutor Brian Trehy said.
Students who witnessed the incident said the teen made contact first and the teacher was responding to that, Trehy said.
“You couldn’t put a piece of paper between them,” Trehy said. “You can’t tell if he actually made contact, but it’s certainly reasonable to believe that it could have happened.”
In a phone interview Thursday afternoon with Hadsock and her attorney, Ty Tison, she expressed relief that the criminal chapter is over.
“It was the right thing to do,” Hadsock said of Trehy’s call. “I was defending myself, and he made the right decision.”
Hadsock and Tison offered previously unreleased details that led up to the incident outside Central High School’s classroom D102.
The student licked a classroom window and left saliva, Tison said. Hadsock and another teacher asked the boy to clean the window, and he refused. Hadsock told him to go to the principal’s office.
At that, the student launched a verbal assault, calling her a “f—ing c—” as he walked across the room toward her in what Hadsock felt was a menacing manner, Tison said.
The video picks up from there.
“Step back right now!” Hadsock shouts.
But instead of stepping back, the student steps forward. Hadsock punches him twice, and another boy pulls him back.
“Oh my God!” a girl exclaims. “He didn’t do anything. You can’t punch him in the face.”
“He pushed into me,” Hadsock, visibly shaken, says.
“I didn’t touch her,” the student responds. “You guys saw that, right? I didn’t touch her.”
Tison said the video “speaks for itself.”
“If she would have done nothing, you might have been talking about some very severe injuries to a 64-year-old teacher,” Tison said. “She wasn’t going to wait to find out.”
The student was suspended but not arrested.
That whole “I didn’t touch her” thing was complete bovine excrement and the prosecutor knew it; he was just trying to gloss over his bullying with a technicality. I’m glad to see that common sense prevailed in this case, and that a vulgar thug wasn’t allowed to get away with insubordination against — and intimidation of — a teacher.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
I’d love to find out the name of that punk. I bet his parents are real proud of their little malfeasant spawn. He had that punch coming, and probably a lot more.