Teacher suspended over Floyd comments

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Updated At : 11:45 AM May 02, 2021 IST

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Jersey City (US), May 1

A New Jersey high school teacher has been suspended with pay after profanity-laced comments to students in his class about George Floyd, the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer. A recording aired by WNBC-TV shows Dickinson High School science teacher Howard Zlotkin talking about Floyd and ‘Black Lives Matter’ during what was supposed to be a climate change discussion in a landscape and design Zoom class. Zlotkin refers to Floyd as a “criminal” who “got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn’t comply.” The video and one taken the next day also included a profanity directed at a student and a vulgar gesture, WNBC reported. – AP

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