A teacher in Connecticut has been suspended after sharing a video online threatening to kill Trump supporters.
Annie Dunleavy, 30, posted a video to Snapchat saying she would leave Donald Trump supporters ‘on a stretcher’ if they ‘tested their gangster’ on her.
Cheshire Public Schools Superintendent Dr Jeffrey Solan announced that he was made aware of the video over the weekend, and that the teacher had been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation into the matter.
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Dunleavy, the special education teacher at Chapman Elementary School, made threats to anyone who voted for president-elect Trump and told them to either fight her or leave.
Dunleavy, in her video, claims that the people she cares about ‘aren’t gonna be safe in America‘ so ‘neither the f*** are you guys’.
‘That being said, it is immediately clear that it will be impossible to conduct business as usual for our students and staff without temporarily removing the teacher from the building, so we have done so until the outcome of the investigation,’ Solan added.
‘Just because you won doesn’t mean we don’t remember who the f*** you voted for you’re not in the clear… please, please don’t test your gangster on me because you will end on a stretcher – gone, forever,’ Dunleavy said.
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‘If you voted for Trump literally, please delete me, block me, get rid of everything of me – or step to me, so that I know what’s up and I can handle you how I see fit,’ she added.
She then finished her rant by asking Trump supporters to ‘come forward… or leave, please, [there’s] the door.’
Solan further stated that the school had been contacted through calls and emails from people outside of the Chesire community.
Although there have been no direct threats to the school, according to Solan, they will have a cautionary police presence outside of the school.
‘Again, I would encourage civil conversation and ask that everyone, particularly adults, work to try and bring down the temperature for the benefit of all Americans, but especially our students.’
Comments scrutinized Solan for stating that the teacher was ‘expressing her personal opinion’ which was ‘intended to be a private message’, and that her views did not reflect that of the schools’.
One wrote on X: ‘So let me get this right, this teacher can express a desire to commit a felony and that would be “ok” by the schools logic?’
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One parent, Ian Anctil, told WFSB that her reaction was ‘inappropriate’ and that she should ‘definitely’ be suspended while they investigate.
‘So, whether you agree politically or not, it doesn’t matter. You’re a teacher and educator educating our kids. You need to be cognitive of who’s going to hear what you say whether it’s intended for the public or not.’
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