Teacher who knocked down HS student in fistfight — allegedly after student called him racial slur — released without bail



A 27-year-old substitute teacher who was arrested Thursday after knocking down a high school student in a fistfight caught on video in Las Vegas — allegedly after the student called the teacher a racial slur — was released without bail.

What are the details?

Re’Kwon Smith was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after his arrest Thursday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, adding that Smith — shackled and in street clothes — appeared Friday afternoon in court in front of Hearing Master Daniel Westmeyer.

Image source: YouTube screenshot, composite

Westmeyer dropped Smith's $9,000 bail and released him because he has no criminal history and was not determined to be a flight risk, KLAS-TV reported.

The station added that Smith's release is contingent on him avoiding further arrests or citations, not returning to Valley High School, and having no contact with the involved student. Smith is due back in court May 27, KLAS said.

What's the background?

Initially KLAS said in its video report, citing sources, that the student used a racial slur against the teacher and that Thursday's fight allegedly started in a classroom when the teacher asked the student to leave after he used the N-word.

A clip of the fight in the KLAS video report shows the teacher knocking down the student after multiple punches:

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But that's not all that was caught on video.

A longer raw video of the fight shows the smaller student continually going after and swinging at the larger teacher, even though the teacher easily knocks the student to the floor not once but twice. Other students intervene, and the teacher walks away amid a throng of onlookers.

Another raw clip offers a close-up of the teacher knocking the student to the floor for the final time, hovering over him, hitting him in the head, and yelling, "Are you crazy?" After schoolmates bring the student to his feet, the teacher — whose shirt is torn open — hollers, "You lost your motherf**king mind, boy!" But the apparently dazed student hollers what sounds like, "You're goin' to jail, [N-word]!" at the teacher and actually laughs before a campus security monitor leads the student away.

Smith was charged with battery resulting in serious bodily harm, assault on a school pupil on school property/vehicle/activity, threatening to do bodily harm to a public school student, and interfering with a student from attending school, KLAS said.

The district hired Smith in November and assigned him to the high school, the station said, adding that police said the district will remove Smith from the substitute pool, and he's no longer eligible to serve as a substitute in the district.

While KLAS said the student also was arrested, KNTV-TV said its sources indicated the student is recovering in a hospital.

Another student told KNTV that the student in the video — a close friend — is "in the hospital right now, but he said he doesn't remember that good what happened ... he has a concussion, and he has scratches all over his face."

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THIS is what made Glenn Greenwald get into an ON-AIR FISTFIGHT



Although the incident happened back in 2019, American journalist Glenn Greenwald is just now divulging all the secrets of his on-air fistfight with conservative Brazilian journalist Augusto Nunes.

Greenwald gives Patrick Bet-David the full scoop.

Greenwald explains that the incident took place during a time when he was reporting on tumultuous political unrest in Brazil, where his husband, David Miranda, was serving as a member of Congress. The two kids whom Greenwald and Miranda had adopted were there as well.

“[Nunes] said something like, ‘What I want to know is ... who's taking care of these kids?'” Greenwald explains.

But Nunes took it even further when he said, “I think we need a judge ... to go and investigate whether these kids should be taken out of the home,” since Miranda was a busy congressman, while Greenwald was busy investigating stories about "stolen documents."

Greenwald explains that “as a father,” someone saying, “Maybe you should have your kids taken away,” lights a fire within.

But this is when things got really tense.

Greenwald and Nunes simultaneously ended up on the same radio show. Whoever orchestrated the seating arrangement was either uninformed about the hostility between the two or was simply sadistic because Greenwald and Nunes ended up sitting right next to each other, literally inches apart.

Before that show kicked off, however, Greenwald said, "I'm gonna need an apology” in order to proceed with the interview.

And let’s just say, it ended with fists and expletives.

Watch the clip below to see Glenn Greenwald throw down.


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Unhinged hardware store worker shoves customer with bat, throws punches after COVID-19 mask dispute: 'That's not customer service'



It would seem that social distancing wasn't too high up on the COVID-19 protocol list for one Seattle hardware store worker caught on cellphone video shoving a customer with a bat and then throwing punches.

What are the details?

Bobby Dixon told KOMO-TV he and a friend entered Tweedy and Popp Hardware at Lake City to buy screws on Sunday. Dixon said he wore a mask but his friend didn't, the station said, adding that signs posted on the front doors told customers that face coverings were required.

Dixon told KOMO that employees told his friend to mask up or leave — but his friend informed them he was fully vaccinated. The station said employees indicated mask-wearing was a store policy, and then things went downhill fast.

"It was a cussing match back and forth between them," Dixon told KOMO.

The station said Dixon's friend turned to go back outside, and Dixon headed for the cash register. But Dixon told KOMO that because the cashier was crude and offensive to him, as he was walking out he decided to stop, turn around, and head back to complain about the poor treatment.

"You work in customer service, and if you're going to be rude, I'm going to take your name down and give it to your boss," Dixon added to the station.

Then bat man showed up — which is when the video begins.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @jasonrantz

"You're going to hit me with that bat? You taunt me with that bat?" Dixon is heard asking the bat-wielding employee, who ends up shoving Dixon out the door and punching him.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @jasonrantz

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @jasonrantz

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @jasonrantz

"It was actually quite terrifying," Dixon told KOMO. "I've never had anybody come at me with a weapon like that, and it was flight or fight, and I was trying to get out of there, and he kept coming at me super aggressively."

Jason Rantz of KTTH-AM said Dixon's friend recorded the video of the fight, which shows Dixon beginning to fight back and landing a kick:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @jasonrantz

Dixon manages to knock down the employee, and the pair wrestle:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @jasonrantz

Things soon come to a close, and the employee heads back into the store — but Dixon and his friend continue to exchange words with both store employees.

Here's the clip. (Content warning: Language):

A fight broke out at the Lake City Ace Hardware over masks. When Bobby says he went to complain about poor customer… https://t.co/7xqr2x6DuT

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) 1623784635.0

Now what?

KOMO said store employees refused to speak to the station about the incident, and messages left at the corporate offices of Ace Hardware — which supplies the store — were not immediately returned.

The station added that a report was filed with Seattle police, and detectives said they are trying to sort out conflicting versions of the incident. Police told KOMO that the employee they contacted claimed neither customer was wearing a mask. Dixon told the station he had a mask on while inside the store — but the cellphone video shows him not wearing a mask.

In addition, the police report indicates the store employee claimed both men attacked him even though the video shows only Dixon fighting the store employee.

"I wasn't threatening, I never made any threats, and neither did my friend," Dixon told Rantz during his KTTH radio show. "I never touched the dude until he came at me, and I was just trying to defend myself."

Dixon added to Rantz, "I wasn't trying to fight. I just kept trying to de-fuse the situation. And you know, you look in the video, he kept just coming towards me, and you even hear me tell him 'stop.'"

According to Rantz, Dixon said he intends to press charges and that the employee "will have to be terminated."

"That's not customer service, and that's not acceptable, and Ace Hardware needs to handle that," Dixon added to Rantz.

Dixon also said Ace Hardware should release surveillance video from inside the store and that it will prove he's telling the truth, Rantz reported.

"I'm kind of shook up," Dixon told Rantz. "It's kind of humiliating because I'm trying to run a business out here, and it's not a good look for a business owner to be involved in something like that, but I want to clear the air."