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Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - koko - 12-24-2011
*The asshole in the news story is the teacher, Ms. Ricketts, obviously not the student, who is now being hailed as a hero.
from what i've gathered the incident took place Wednesday Dec. 14 (possibly the 15th, reports vary), and the teacher who was attacked was released from the hospital Tuesday Dec. 20
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Ronette Ricketts, 40
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Cynthia Glozier, 54
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Justin Richardson, 18
Poughkeepsie High School student helped stop teacher's stabbing
Written by: Shantal Parris Riley, Poughkeepsie Journal
Justin Richardson was walking through the hallways of Poughkeepsie High School on his way to his fourth-period class Thursday when he saw what he thought was a fight.
As the 18-year-old senior approached, the scene came into clearer focus.
“I saw Ms. Ricketts hitting Ms. Glozier in the back,” he said. “I saw she had a screwdriver in her hand.”
Richardson said Cynthia Glozier was crying for help.
“She was yelling, ‘Help me, help me, get her off of me,’ ” he said. “The way she was screaming ‘help me,’ it was horrifying.”
Ronette Ricketts, a 40-year-old English teacher, taught Richardson in 10th grade. Before the scene was over, witnesses and police said, Ricketts stabbed 54-year-old colleague Glozier at least 16 times in the head, face and back with a screwdriver.
Ricketts was later charged with first-degree attempted assault and second-degree assault, both felonies, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor. She was being held in the Dutchess County jail, but after posting $100,000 bond, she was released Friday.
Ricketts’ attorney, Gary Greenwald, said, “There’s no issue regarding what occurred, but there’s a substantial issue about my client’s mental state” when it happened.
Glozier was listed in good condition Monday at Saint Francis Hospital in the Town of Poughkeepsie, where she is being treated for stab wounds to her head, neck, back and chest, police said.
The attack
Richardson had just come from his earth science class when he saw the two women in the hallway.
For Richardson, a linebacker for the Poughkeepsie Pioneers high school football team and about 6 feet tall and about 210 pounds, it was enough for him to stand in the way to slow down Ricketts.
“I put my hands in between them and separated them,” he said. “I put my arm against her (Ricketts) and gave her a decent shove and pushed her into the corner.”
Another teacher, David Laffin, was already there, trying to pull Glozier away from Ricketts.
Glozier, Richardson said, “seemed really, really, really scared — scared for her life. She was bleeding from the side of her head and from her neck.”
He recalled the look in Ricketts’s eyes as she jabbed at Glozier with the screwdriver.
“I looked into her eyes, and I saw rage,” Richardson said. “It wasn’t Ms. Ricketts, whoever she was.”
Richardson said he went for Ricketts’ hand.
“I tried to knock the screwdriver away from her,” he said. “It flew out of her hand.”
A school security guard arrived moments after Richardson and helped subdue Ricketts, he said.
“After I broke it up, the security guard took over,” he said. “I just walked away.”
Angry, disappointed
Several days after the incident, Richardson said he felt conflicted about what happened.
“I don’t how to feel,” he said. “I’m angry, I guess.”
Angry with the school, he said, and “very disappointed” in Ricketts.
“The simple fact that our teachers and our administration preach to us, the senior class, about being role models and having a positive attitude,” he said.
“It’s really disturbing. They’re supposed to be our role models,” he continued. “But I was the one who had to step in and be a role model.”
He described Ricketts as having been a friend.
After having a falling-out with Ricketts in 10th grade, Richardson said, he stopped speaking to her for about a year.
“We started talking again in 12th grade,” he said. “We became friends. We bonded. I’m very disappointed in her.”
Richardson expressed further disappointment with the 20 or so people, including two or three adult school staffers, he said, who stood around and watched the attack without trying to stop it.
“There were a lot of people there,” he said. “They just stood around and watched the whole time.”
Richardson said he wanted to know why Ricketts did what she did.
“She was obviously angry about something,” he said.
Act of courage
Days after the incident, Ken Barger, a seven-year football coach and special-education teacher, said he was extremely proud of Richardson.
“It was a stress situation,” Barger said. “He knew what had to be done, and he reacted. He put himself in harm’s way to save somebody else. It was an amazing act of courage.”
Barger, who met with Richardson a few hours after the stabbing, described him as “calm, cool and collected,” adding that Richardson still had a lot of adrenaline in his system at the time. “It was just sinking in.”
Barger said he recognized some of the skills Richardson had been taught on the team in the actions he took in the hallway of the school that day.
“It’s a validation of all the life skills we teach,” he said. “We try to prepare them for situations that arise that are unexpected. They could be stressful and overwhelming experiences. But you have to prepare them for all possibilities.”
Barger said Richardson was being called a hero.
“The definition of a hero is an ordinary person who when the time arises steps in and makes a difference,” Barger said. “That’s what he did.”
HERE is a direct link to video of Richardson talking about the incident. It's the same video that is on the page of the original article
thank god for people these days who still have balls.
Edit: HERE is a video of another student talking about what she saw..
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - Lady Cop - 12-24-2011
Ricketts was later charged with first-degree attempted assault
WHAT?? ATTEMPTED?? that was attempted murder!
Justin deserves much praise and commendation.
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - koko - 12-24-2011
just found this, published 12:52 AM Dec. 24:
District probes stabbing of teacher; Ricketts faces 25 years
Written by: Larry Hertz, Poughkeepsie Journal
Even as a Poughkeepsie High English teacher faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of attempted murder charges in the stabbing of a fellow teacher, the school district is continuing its own investigation into the Dec. 15 attack.
A Dutchess County grand jury has charged Ronette Ricketts, 40, with one count of attempted murder and one count of second-degree assault, Senior Assistant District Attorney Marjorie Smith said. Both charges are felonies carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
full article
im going to assume the report of Ricketts being charged with 1 count attempted murder & 1 second-degree assault is correct. however, in the article, the caption under her photo still states she's being charged with first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. maybe they dropped the criminal poss. of weapon charge once they were able to charge her with attempted murder?
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - Smegma - 12-24-2011
(12-24-2011, 07:04 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: Ricketts was later charged with first-degree attempted assault
WHAT?? ATTEMPTED?? that was attempted murder!
Justin deserves much praise and commendation.
I thought it sounded like attempted murder too... she was fucking stabbing her in the neck, for god's sake!
Scary story.
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - Lady Cop - 12-24-2011
Ricketts’ attorney, Gary Greenwald, said, “There’s no issue regarding what occurred, but there’s a substantial issue about my client’s mental state” when it happened.
no shit sherlock...here comes the obvious insanity defense.
understatement of the year:
“She was obviously angry about something,” Richardson said.
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - koko - 12-24-2011
real scary. crazy to think that this was someone who taught kids, had interacted with them daily. and for this to happen in the school hallway, with so many people around....and with a screwdriver for god sake!
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - Cracker - 12-25-2011
Eyebrows tell a tale.
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - IMaDick - 12-25-2011
I'm dissapointed that the charge did not include a racial hate crime enhancement.
RE: Heroic student breaks up violent teacher on teacher attack - Cracker - 12-25-2011
(12-25-2011, 01:29 PM)IMaDick Wrote: I'm dissapointed that the charge did not include a racial hate crime enhancement."BUT ... there are hints that this was not simply a case of spontaneous rage brought on by some random triggering event.
For example, according to Teachers World website,
"Ronette Ricketts allegedly showed up at the district office asking for a personnel action sheet because, according to District Superintendent Laval Wilson, “Somehow she was under the impression that she was being terminated.” Wilson said he didn’t know why she thought she was losing her job, and I confess that I don’t know what, if anything, this visit may have had to do with what happened later that morning. (Makes you wonder if she had planned the attack ahead of time, and knew she would be terminated as a result…Just makes you wonder.)"
And then there's this story from Rivals website with the HS Principal's description of the attack:
"It wasn't two teachers arguing, it was one attacking another," Poughkeepsie principal Edgar Glascott told WPIX 11.
And here's a local TV news VIDEO report (2m 29s) from WABC-TV, NY with a distinctively local reaction to this attack. The anchor first stated that is was a "fight" but then seconds later called it an "attack." So make up your mind already: which one it it, a fight or an attack? (Note: There IS VIDEO of the attack from the school's surveillance system. I'm sure it will be released one day down the road.)"
The media pretends only white people perpetrate hate crimes. Most violence is perpetrated by blacks. The media sucks in this country. But then, if the media reported all the black violence in this country there wouldn't be room on the front page for anything else.
She's sure an ugly bitch with fucked up hair.