Lehrerin von Schülerin angegriffen – Video ins Internet gestellt

Während man in den USA offenbar zu beschäftigt ist, fünfjährigen Jungen Handschellen anzulegen oder sie anderweitig polizeilich zu verfolgen (Genderama berichtete mehrfach), tut man sich noch ein wenig schwer mit Gewaltübergriffen, die von Teenagerinnen begangen werden, woraufhin Videos davon ins Web gestellt werden. Eine weitere aktuelle Meldung dieser Art:

Six days after she was sucker punched and beaten in her own Baltimore classroom, high school art teacher Jolita Berry still finds it almost impossible to watch the MySpace video of the attack. And she can’t make herself go back to work. (…)

The attack happened last Friday morning in Berry’s classroom in Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore. One of the girls in the class approached the 30-year-old teacher and got nose-to-nose with her and threatened her. “I told her, ‘You’re in my personal space, back up. If you hit me, I will defend myself,’ ” Berry said. “Before I knew it, she hit me in the face.” (…)

The video, recorded on a cell phone by another student, picks up with Berry on the floor trying to defend herself while the girl straddles her, throwing punches at Berry’s head. The teacher said some of the other students cheered on the attacker. (…)

After the attack, Berry said the school principal, Jean Ragin, suggested that she provoked the attack. “On one hand, she told me she is sorry this happened to me,” Berry said in a taped report filed by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. “She told me telling the student that I would defend myself was a ‘trigger word.’ ” (...)

Den kompletten Artikel mit Auszügen des Videos, einem Interview mit der Lehrerin und leider auch sehr aufdringlicher Reklame gibt es hier.