Posted on 05/05/2024 5:32:09 PM PDT by Morgana
A teen who allegedly attacked two of his school teachers is being charged as an adult, prosecutors confirmed - after one of the suspected strikes went viral.
Aquavis Hickman, a 17-year-old student at Parkland High School in North Carolina, was indicted on the assault and kidnapping charges last week, Forsyth County District Attorneys said.
He is being charged as an adult in the two separate attacks, one of which was filmed.
In the first, un-filmed incident, he allegedly attacked a male teacher at the school on February, and in their statement, prosecutors said he did not act alone.
Then, last month, officials claimed the teen walked up to a female teacher and smacked her twice, with footage of the alleged attack later circulating on social media. It has yet to be released by cops.
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'That video went viral nationwide and it put us on the map in a negative manner,' Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn told Fox affiliate WGHP-TV News during a joint press conference following Hickman's arrest Thursday.
'I am so glad today that the rest of the nation will also hear that we do not tolerate that in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.'
Also in attendance were Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill and Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough, at a meeting intended to serve as the first step in taking a stand against violence against educators, organizers said.
'Our message to our community is simple,' O'Neill told reporters around a crowded podium.
'We stand with the teachers. We will fight to protect those teachers. And if you lay a hand on a teacher and assault a teacher, you can expect that the punishment will be swift and severe. Promise made. Promise kept.'
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IOW we don’t need to look.
I’m guessing we won’t see a mugshot of the minor being charged as an adult...
Hope they can stand firm on this.
Lawsuit coming from the teenage “victim” any day now.
They won’t. Make vigilantism great again.
People like “Aquavis” are beyond help. They should be put out of their and OUR misery.
No mugshot, but some images.
Parkland MAGNET High School.
Magnet school? For the best and brightest???
RE: don’t need to look....
Typecasting the Faroe Islanders. Expect to see the men in those vests and women with lacings in front of their dresses.
He sounds Norwegian.
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Oh wait. That is Aquavit (type of booze).
.. (Aquavis)
🙅🤦
Not surprised. I was slapped by one of his Floridian counterparts in my classroom because I had the audacity to insist that he needed to learn to read above a second grade level... and this was middle school.
I used to buy into the lie that these brats wanted to be educated.
Not from my experience...
Awesome.
If he wants help, he can get it while in prison.
Aquavius. He’s a Roman,
Look at that young Rhodes Scholar there!! Bright future for that young man!
It’s curious how Daily Mail rarely covers the fact that the UK has been systematically overrun by muslims and North African ‘refugees’ that have turned their society upside-down. Easier to just report on feral blacks in the U.S. I guess.
Besides the shock of being slapped by a student in your classroom, you probably had to fight fhe natural impulse to slap the little thug right back. good. hard and loudly.
I know that’s what would be crossing my mind.
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