A Jewish middle school teacher in Wisconsin has been arrested after he threatened terrorism to students who had drawn a swastika on a piece of paper in the classroom, police said.
The Grafton Police Department in northern Milwaukee has not identified the seventh-grade teacher who allegedly told students that he had 17 guns in his basement and that he was not afraid to use them.
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WTMJ-TV reports that a teacher at John Long Middle School, whom police have identified as Jewish, was enraged by the painting and threatened to send his daughter home with a baseball bat.
“At first, he just acted normal and just put it on his desk like, ‘I’m going to report this to the office,'” Ethan Polos, a seventh-grader, told the station. “But then he picked up a piece of paper and started rambling about how bad it was and a national disgrace. He started mentioning the N word and it was on the wall I started saying it was worse than writing the N word.”
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Police said the teacher was incarcerated in Ozaukee County Jail on charges of threatening terrorism and exposing children to toxic substances. Both charges are felonies.
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Grafton Superintendent Jeff Nelson said in a letter to the family on Friday that the teacher had taken immediate leave and had been expelled from the school. Teachers will not have contact with students until the investigation is complete, Nelson said.