SAUGERTIES, N.Y. An unidentified juvenile was arrested Friday after falsely reporting a gun threat to Saugerties High School, according to statements from Saugerties police and the Saugerties Central School District. According to a statement from the district, law enforcement received a threat at 2:55 p.m. alleging someone with a gun on the premises of […]
‘New evidence has surfaced that he could not have been forthcoming in his statements,’ the assignment reads.
‘Should the Derek Chauvin case be retried because of Brandon Mitchell. Why or Why Not?’
The assignment has provoked outrage of parents and sparked a review by the
Saugerties Central School District.
Sakinah Irizarry who has fifth- and seventh-grade students in the district,
told NBC News the assignment was harmful regardless of race because of the traumatic experience it used for a lesson.
‘Even if we were not talking about this case, specifically, it takes the death of a person, I’d say, from a very cold and distant point of view,’ she said.