New Jersey Teacher Suspended After ‘Biased’ Comments About George Floyd Death During Class
05/01/21 AT 5:07 PM
A high school teacher in New Jersey has been suspended with pay after sharing “very biased” comments about George Floyd’s death with his students.
Dickinson High School science teacher Howard Zlotkin was supposed to be discussing climate change during a landscape and design class on Zoom with his students. However, he began talking about Black Lives Matter and the death of Floyd, a Black man from Minneapolis who was killed by a police officer.
A video of Zlotkin’s rant, which was shared by WNBC-TV, shows Zlotkin referring to Floyd as a “criminal” who “got arrested” and “killed because he wouldn’t comply.”