Full uncensored video: You can't negotiate with pieces of shit like this, the only thing they understand is a fucking beat down.
No. Neither @PtldPlatypus or I are trivializing racism. I can't begin to understand what that guy has been through. I won't try to. I've no doubt he has suffered a lot of racism before this point. This was probably the straw that broke the camels back. Still, as a teacher, as an adult, there is no justification for pummeling a 14 year old, even if he is being a racist disrespectful punk. Even if he throws a ball at you.
Of course you are. He wants to completely ignore that issue as if it didn't have anything to do with the teacher clapping back.
I don't ignore the fact that racism entered into the teacher's decision making. What I'm saying is that racism doesn't justify the teacher's decision making. Circumstances don't change the fact of violence being a wrong response to words, no matter how egregious.
The thing is, as a white man, you can't tell a black man how to react to being called the N-word. I'm not telling him how he should react. I simply support his reaction.
I've already addressed and refuted this claim earlier in the thread. You should probably go re-read. The wrongness of responding to words with violence is completely independent of race or circumstances. And it does not come from me "as a white man". It is a matter of law, which is applicable irrespective of skin tone. Until legislation is on the books that permits responding to verbal racism with physical violence, there is no exception.
the kid threw a basketball at him and was trying to physically intimidate him. I guess we will see how it shakes out but it seems that there is a case to be made for self defense.
A case will be made for self defense. If the man wins which he probably won't good for him. I still won't condone his actions.
This entire post is a complete joke. The basketball had been thrown well over a minute beforehand, after which point the teacher stood near him, then walked to the other side of the room, then walked back to the student. At the time of the punch, the student was standing still, only talking, and repeatedly asking "You say that $#!^, bro?". There was no physical intimidation. The kid is a POS, no doubt, but there is absolutely no case for self-defense.
The kid threw the basketball towards the teacher's lower legs. I don't view that as physically threatening. The student moved in closer, yet that still is not physically threatening for the teacher. The teacher looked like he was going to the phone to call school security, but he didn't. That's where his mistakes begin cascading at that point.
He walked away, then walked back. That eliminates any legitimacy of a self-defense claim based on the basketball "assault".
