First Published: 10:54 AM PDT, May 1, 2021
Timmia Williams, a student, recorded the rant and contacted school officials. When they didn’t respond, she contacted the news.
Howard Zlotkin, a white science teacher at William L. Dickinson High School In New Jersey, has been suspended with pay after going on a racist rant where he called George Floyd a criminal. According to the New York Times, his students were on a Google Meet call expecting to hear about climate change, but Zlotkin’s attention shifted.
“He’s not a hero; he’s like a criminal,” he yelled in a video shared with the outlet. He then chastised students for making criminals into heroes “because they’re Black or because they got a bad story.”