NY Daily News exaggerates video of teacher restraining unruly student
The NY Daily News exaggerates a surveillance video showing a teacher restraining a troubled 15-year-old boy in a New York school.
Using misleading language describing security dean Steven Hudson’s actions as a “severe beating,” the newspaper showed the video to student Kristoff John’s mom.
The troubled 15-year-old was restrained at Technical Education High School in Brooklyn.
“Oh my god!” she gasped when she saw Kristoff John being restrained during the March 6 incident at school. “No! No! No!”
“They lied to me!” the betrayed mom said tearfully when The News showed her the clip for the first time. “No one wants to see their son taken advantage of and beaten like this.”
After uniformed police arrive on the scene Kristoff continues to fight them as he is restrained.
“I was fearing for my life,” he said. “I was surprised he hit me. I didn’t have time to think,” said Kristoff.
In fact the boy is the aggressor. But you can’t tell that by reading the Daily News article.
At no time did the 300 lb Hudson punch or hit the boy. He did what was necessary to restrain a student who made aggressive gestures toward school staff.
The incident began when Kristoff attempted to swipe his security card but it failed to work. He pushed his way into the school and he was grabbed by Hudson when he refused to swipe his security card again.
The teacher, Hudson, refused to talk to The News when confronted at the school’s graduation and again at his Jersey City home.
The school’s principal, Janine Kieran, also did not respond to several requests for comment.
Kristoff was sent to live with relatives in his native Grenada.
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Bad ass kid. He needed to be handled.
Um, his big ass sure is swinging that little boy.
for some reason video just loads and loads and loads
I’m a full supporter of fluckin a kid up…
Like he can take on the security guy. Somebody should have punched him.
Couldn’t see the video…
Fe and her damn refresh button
Ummm, I watched the video and the grown man DID seem to be the aggressor…
All those people and they still couldn’t subdue him
Ok, so the mere fact that you need to swipe a card to get into that school speaks volumes to me…
@JMO
@ Fefe HE WAS! He could’ve stopped after he first grabbed him up.
In my Ms Celie voice “Beat Him”
I couldn’t have that job. Yall know these kids walk around already like they’re gonna whoop yo ass when you haven’t said anything to them. He did his ass right. I dont have to watch the video. I know so many educators who have similar or exact stories as this one. As with these type situations, how it all started isn’t caught, only the reaction from the teacher. **** that. he did right. what reason would a teacher have to restrain you? what, cuz u didn’t bring ur homework?
please.
@Cocoa
Right, I mean he was swinging him all around, that was unnecessary with his big ass!
I was waiting too. I’m like “oh yea, they all up in that other post… bring it on!!!”
I go to the bathroom and BAM!
NOPE NOPE NOPE.
Once the boy swung at dude he had all rights to subdue him by any means possible.
I went to school in NYC and if your ID didn’t work chances are you were in some sort of trouble. Not all but most of the time.
FOH with this, the kid is a menace and should be handled as such. Cuz if he was in Grenada, they would handle him much worse.
I think the adults may have mishandled him. Just my opinion. The boy still didn’t appear to be threatening. He appeared to be trying to breathe.
cant see the video.. but im all for fukn a kid up..esspecially a teen
THEM BE THE HARD HEADED YEARS..
SO yall peen wipes couldn’t say
@Bootcampgirl: They do this in NYC schools to have an account of who comes in and out of the building…shyt after Columbine no one was taking any chances. Easiest way to keep an account of every student. When you have 1000+ in one school, you can’t do that shyt by eye
Hey FE-Boo!
What is up with the site? I see script errors and it has the blinks too? Say word??
peen wipes
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Ace says:
for some reason video just loads and loads and loads
I’m a full supporter of fluckin a kid up…
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@KayCei
Shyt’s been crazy on here all week….server issues…
Ewwww peen wipes
Im sorry but I will be biased Kristoff was the name of the zombie in the movie Rainbow Serpent so I already don’t trust him
Morning fam!!! Been a minute, whats the deal tho?
@Lakes-thanks babe, I ain’t got no 6 pack, but I’m working with something from the back
by the grace of GOD, she had interviewed for another company, was offered the job but was going to keep this one because they don’t offer benefits, that was a blessing in disguise…
@Choco-girl, I am over here sweating bullets. I been here for almost 8 years. We have a new company taking over, we went to the orientation on the 21st and we were offered positions to stay with the new company. My co-worker just tells me a few minutes ago that they sent her a letter letting her know her services would not be needed…
Question: Anybody here ever collect unemployment? Is it comparable to your work salary?
Choco aka Hippie says:
SO yall peen wipes couldn’t say
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Just look for Fe’s font. If she stop posting, that must mean she’s first in a new post
Regardless of the reason or cause behind it, no mother worth her salt is going to be able to watch video of her child in a fight with someone bigger then the child and be able to express anything other than shock, fear and eventually rage. It’s apart of our maternal instincts
And the media has been manipulating people since the beginning of time but generally it was in the amount of reporting on certain stories vs obviously biased reporting and leaving out facts. Gone are the days when journalists exercised restraint and only reported the facts as they saw them. The best things my journalism professor ever taught me, fact-checking, spell check is for the lazy and opinions are for editorials and your personal life
I think they stopped teaching that
Ewwww peen wipes
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OMG I was like they don’t know how gross that is
The big guy does appear to be the aggressor. Backpacks and hoodies will get you tossed around like a chicken getting their neck broke. Dude just kept tossing him around. That could have been handled differently.
PEEN WIPES
COCHINA!! EWWWW!
@JMO
I was like hmmmm no one’s posting
Gigi26 says:
@Bootcampgirl: They do this in NYC schools to have an account of who comes in and out of the building…shyt after Columbine no one was taking any chances. Easiest way to keep an account of every student. When you have 1000+ in one school, you can’t do that shyt by eye
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Didn’t think about it like that
@Bootcamp Unemployment is typically 45% of your current yearly salary; howver, it depends ont he stae you reside in.
I hope it all works out, love
@Bootcamp:
I collected unemployment, it is comparable based off how long you’ve been working there and your current salary. You get a certain percentage of that. Just pray that it would not be your portion hun. Seriously, your situation is not hers!
@JMO
I have to go to a business lunch today so you can have at it this afternoon!
That is as gross as a dude cumming and wiping some across your forehead and calling you simba!…. Where they really do these things at?
Choco, I’m watching her *points 2 fingers at my eyes then points them at hers*
Choco-girl, I am over here sweating bullets. I been here for almost 8 years. We have a new company taking over, we went to the orientation on the 21st and we were offered positions to stay with the new company.
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Just stay prayed up and be proactive in job searching and know this GOD has you where he wants you be it employed or unemployed…
Question: Anybody here ever collect unemployment? Is it comparable to your work salary?
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It helps but its not what you are accustomed to you can get by but you are struggling
Gigi26 says:
@Bootcampgirl: They do this in NYC schools to have an account of who comes in and out of the building…shyt after Columbine no one was taking any chances. Easiest way to keep an account of every student. When you have 1000+ in one school, you can’t do that shyt by eye
Didn’t they before Columbine?? My hs had tighter security than the airport (b4 9/11)…
This sht was excessive. The boy wasn’t trying to fight. He was trying to get away from the fat bastard after he was grabbed. Did they really need all those people to take him down? I say not.
Well dayum…my typing is all fawked up
Boot if you type unemployment insurance into your browser, you’ll go to a link that will have the specifics for your state. You can calculate what your potential weekly check would be…
Fi gotchu agane Jmo
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@Bootcamp
Choco, I’m watching her *points 2 fingers at my eyes then points them at hers*
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Fe, I have meetings again too
Shyt this fat dude better than some of the security guards and deans I went to school with…he’s lucky that he was restrained, i’ve seen kids bodyslammed
Leave it to me, i would’ve kicked him square in his back
HOny brought me out of lurkmode just to say, NO MORE LION KING FOR YOU MY LOVE!
Choco just left me all by my lonesome downstairs
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Even tho I shouldn’t Im smitten with you
CHANDLER!!
Would like to see an update on this kid in a couple of years. He obviously didn’t follow the instructions of the Admin that started this whole mess.
Bibi says:
Gigi26 says:
@Bootcampgirl: They do this in NYC schools to have an account of who comes in and out of the building…shyt after Columbine no one was taking any chances. Easiest way to keep an account of every student. When you have 1000+ in one school, you can’t do that shyt by eye
Didn’t they before Columbine?? My hs had tighter security than the airport (b4 9/11)…
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Columbine doesn’t have ID cards you have to swipe. Students have to wear their ID’s on a lanyard around their neck and present it upon demand by any staff, but no metal detectors or ID swipes…
This is still, lily white Colorado…
Guard WAS kina rough.
I woulda punch his ass dead in the face. Thats why my ed minors aint getting no use now.
Bibi says:
Gigi26 says:
@Bootcampgirl: They do this in NYC schools to have an account of who comes in and out of the building…shyt after Columbine no one was taking any chances. Easiest way to keep an account of every student. When you have 1000+ in one school, you can’t do that shyt by eye
Didn’t they before Columbine?? My hs had tighter security than the airport (b4 9/11)…
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I wonder how they kept track of the students at my high school. Freshman year, I think there were 4,200 students
We didn’t accept any ole body like that school called Whitney Young or some chit
goddamnit am i gonna have to view this on my tablet to get the enjoyment of seeing this little kid get jacked up…
Heeeey Awesome, why does my gravi resemble yours
Thanks ladies…
Didn’t they before Columbine?? My hs had tighter security than the airport (b4 9/11)…
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You’re right Bibi, I went to school in Jamaica Queens and you know the school had beefs with other nearby schools so the kids would jump some students. I think the level of security varied based on the school safety level and where it was located. But I think for the most part every student in NYC had to scan in their IDs…hell we even had random bookbag/body scanning days
Check your state website @Bootcamp
Here they go according to your dependants. And folkd get the same amounts no matter how much they made, which is kinda crazy…IMO
@JMO
Im over here
@ Gigi kick him square in his back and OTB punched him dead in his face 
Repressed anger 
Fe, really?
Yea, thats YSOs stomping ground 
@Gigi
U had to scan ur id then walk through a metal detector, put ur bag through the machine for xray (like the airport) if the detector went off they took u to table and manually scanned you. If u rang again u were escorted into a room for a strip search…and I went to school in lower manhattan…
@Choco
I guess I did say “anything” but politics huh?
Columbine doesn’t have ID cards you have to swipe. Students have to wear their ID’s on a lanyard around their neck and present it upon demand by any staff, but no metal detectors or ID swipes…
@Man
you see that gravi up there….they listen dawg they listen….
@Ace
you care 
thx
Even tho I shouldn’t Im smitten with you
#yallseethat 
Ace
Ummmmmm, that was not for @Man
He’ll be in jail in no time and his mom will still say her poor son.
The Daily News article title is comical.
Daily News reveals shocking video to mom showing 15-year-old son taking severe beating from teacher at Brooklyn high school
lol. What severe beating?
#yallseethat
I really did just laugh out loud smdh at you
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Similar incident happened at my cousin’s school in Jamaica. He is a teacher and one his collegues grabbed a student’ arm that was trying to cut infront of the lunchline. The student resisted and started fighting the teacher, other teachers including my cousin joined in on restraining the child. They were finally able to control him after a couple of mins. Later in the day the kid took scissors and stabbed the teacher that initially grabbed him in the chest and neck.
If a child needs that many adults to subdue him, then he is a danger to other children and should not be in that school period. Interesting that they sent his bad ass back to Grenada…
Similar incident happened at my cousin’s school in Jamaica. He is a teacher and one his collegues grabbed a student’ arm that was trying to cut infront of the lunchline. The student resisted and started fighting the teacher, other teachers including my cousin joined in on restraining the child. They were finally able to control him after a couple of mins. Later in the day the kid took scissors and stabbed the teacher that initially grabbed him in the chest and neck. If a child needs that many adults to subdue him, then he is a danger to other children and should not be in that school period. Interesting that they sent his bad ass back to Grenada…
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I don’t believe he went overboard. The child tried to do what he wanted to do and he was stopped. He clearly has control issues because it took a GROUP of adults to get him under control in the end. Nobody hit him, they only restrained him. I see this all the time in my profession and kids are extremely aggressive now to the point where they now have a new label for them: ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) which I believe is a bunch of crap. Kids have been given way too much power and adults are being bullied by children, especially in school. We have had students threaten to blow up the building, bring a gun and kill everybody, get their gang to come attack us after school, etc., etc., etc. The public just doesn’t understand what goes on in schools across the country and we are demonized when we (the staff) try to defend ourselves. Parents need to be held accountable for what they are NOT doing at home and maybe then we will see some change.