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- Girl, 15, accused of throwing chair that clobbered teacher in head, knocked her to floor, and sent her to hospital is arrested, charged with felonious assault
- A 15-year-old girl accused of throwing a chair that clobbered a Michigan high school teacher in the head and knocked her to a classroom floor, resulting in the victim’s hospitalization, has been arrested and charged with felonious assault, WJRT-TV reported.
- Thursday’s incident at Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint was captured on video, the station said.
- The viral clip shows two female students yelling at each other, after which one of them picks up a desk chair and throws it, WJRT reported. The chair hits the teacher in the head, and the teacher falls the floor.
- Flint Police Chief Terence Green said the school resource officer was called to break up a fight between two female juniors and found the teacher lying on the floor with head injuries, the station said.
- Flint Community Schools Superintendent Kevelin Jones said the teacher was released from the hospital the same day, is “doing well,” and is expected to return to work, MLive said.
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