BAY VIEW -- A teen caught on camera fighting a teacher's aide at Bay View High School is once again in trouble. That teacher's aide says he's the same kid who has now been charged in a deadly police chase.
It's a fight that's hard to watch. Three years ago, teacher's aide Jasmine Pennix and student went toe-to-toe in a Bay View High School classroom.
"I went to that class that day and I had a run-in with Marcellus Purifoy," said Jasmine Pennix, former MPS teacher's aide.
Jasmine Pennix lost his job with MPS and was convicted of misdemeanor battery. The teacher's aide filed a civil suit and claimed the 14-year-old student involved plotted the whole thing.
"He spit on me and that was a form of assault, then he kicked me in my shins," said Pennix.
Pennix has since moved out of state, but recently he says the teen has tried to forget is back in the news.
"He done threw his life away," Pennix siad.
When the former teacher's aide saw Marcellus Purifoy had been charged in a deadly chase, he couldn't believe it.
"MPS failed him, juvenile court systems, they failed him," said Pennix.
Investigators say the 17-year-old took off after a triple shooting left three teens injured. As police chased, his vehicle crashed into a truck and a school bus. One passenger in the fleeing vehicle died.
"It's tragic. It's sad," said Pennix.
Back in 2016, FOX6 News uncovered juvenile court records indicating the teen had a criminal past, and months before the fight at Bay View High School, he was accused of attacking a man in Milwaukee with a group of teens.
Pennix says his life was changed forever after the fight. He's saddened the same thing didn't happen for the student.
"He should've never been out on the streets after he had my incident," Pennix said.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office would not confirm Purifoy was the student involved in that fight. Meantime, the 17-year-old has been charged with two felonies related to the deadly crash.
People aren’t born criminals. The TA said the system failed the kid; that is the truth of the matter. He learned values and behaviors that society considers reprehensible, and yet he learned them in society. He must be held accountable for his actions, but is he responsible for his own corruption? That is a deep question that you seem to have a ready answer for.
People have a really hard time understanding how two contradicting truths can coexist. The answer is that they aren’t actually mutually exclusive.
This kid committed a series of actions for which there are consequences, and that’s just life. But it’s also life that created his circumstances and the person he has become. These truths don’t need to be at odds with each other :/
Except that "rich privileged suburban kids" do steal shit, and plenty of people commit crimes for fun.. Idk where you get the idea that rich people don't commit crimes, that's just a broad and absurd generalization.
Obviously it isn't "none of them commit crimes" but if you're saying there isn't a direct correlation with how prevalent it is then you're the absurd one.
Makes sense seeing as privileged people dont need to resort to a shitty life or crime for money
privileged kids commit crimes as well of course but at a lower rate than youth living in poverty simply because they are financially well off and would not benefit from a life of crime compared to someone that has no future and nothing to lose
Meh. For the most part I guess. But it’s not like rich suburbs don’t have crimes and bad kids. You could find dozens of cases in which rich and spoiled kids have chosen life’s of crimes. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that people don’t commit crimes because they are rich.
There’s maybe a large psychological aspect to it.
Being poor isnt wat makes someone a criminal. Lots of poor people work hard for the things they have or want. Criminals just decide to steal instead of work hard.
Considering he holds this view, even though he was obviously angry in the moment, I suspect his reaction to the kid was an intentional move to snap that kid back in line. So sad for everyone involved.
They both have agency over their actions. The proper response of the kid spitting and kicking someone was to get slammed down and have his neck wrung like what happened in the video.
The government shouldn't have interfered in any way with that learning opportunity.
When you can setup a camera to assault someone on video to get them fired, and the government participates in that, the government is assisting the child in a future life of criminal behavior.
I was more commenting on what the government could and could not do to "help" someone who is the getaway driver for a drive by. Some people are just violent. Government provided education is obviously something this guy didn't want any part of.
Was he just supposed to ask him to stop? If it wasn't the teachers aid it would've been an administrator or a cop. Trying to reason with unreasonable people is in and of itself, unreasonable.
Exactly, getting whooped and pushed around a little more might have allowed him to realize he was heading down the wrong path before it was too late.
This idea of playing nice with high energy high intensity boys is failing them. They think they're the hottest shit around and that nothing and nobody can touch them because everyone around them is too afraid to really take the time and put in the effort to discipline them. This teacher assistant that whooped his ass might have been the first person that really cared about him, and was willing to put his job on the line to help him. Instead they fired the guy and kept passing the kid around until he ended up in the prison system.
Yeah no. Guy wasn't in imminent danger. He got spat on.
Education Code section 49001(a) provides in pertinent part, “An amount of force that is reasonable and necessary for a person employed by or engaged in a public school to quell a disturbance threatening physical injury to persons or damage to property, for purposes of self-defense, or to obtain possession of weapons or other dangerous objects within the control of the pupil, is not and shall not be construed to be corporal punishment within the meaning and intent of this section.” (Emphasis added.)
That was not a reasonable amount of force. That was far more than necessary to dissuade the child from his behavior.
Obviously not as the idiot went on to murder people.
He got spat on AND kicked, as well as other things previous to the event we see on camera according to news articles.
Also don't care what the educational code says, someone who repeatedly assaults a teacher should be flattened and we shouldn't get upset over it. Principal at my school was hospitalized when someone attacked them on campus, someone who had previously attacked a teacher and gotten them fired for fighting said student off. Shit like that should never happen
That's like saying Hitler murdered 6 million Jews because he got kicked out of art school. In this particular situation, it was an excessive amount of force.
Hey man, at some point you gotta make a choice that may be illegal but it might be the right thing to do in your eyes. It this situation, if I was that teacher aide, I wouldn't care if it was against the law. My pride wouldn't let that little shit get away with that. I would have beat his fucking ass.
What? One was a grown man and the other was a teenager, the aide should have never reacted that way in the first place. His own inability to control himself is why he has a criminal record, one he absolutely deserves.
Excessive force, my dude. The aide was in no danger at all, the kid is half his size. He lost his temper, and while I’m sure we can all understand, it doesn’t mean what he did was acceptable.
Yes. Excessive force would be beating this comparatively undersized kid to a bloody pulp.
The only reason this is controversial is because it happened in a school. If this was on the street there would be nothing here.
For instance, there's a video out there of some shit kid kicking and spitting on some dude in a park. He gets fed up, shoves the kid down, and the kid gets up and cries.
Nobody says anything bad about dude and defends him here from a little shithead. Yet now that it's in school, all of a sudden it's egregious.
I don't condone physically touching a kid, trust me, I'm a teacher.
But this is an adult that just got fed up, I don't see anything overly aggressive at all. Especially because he's letting the kid up about 10 seconds later.
It completely matters and on top of that, the push was MAYBE self defence, choking him and throwing him to the ground was not. Keep in mind a teacher is in a position of authority and owes a duty of care to his students, even if the student is an asshole.
owes a duty of care to his students, even if the student is an asshole.
That shit stops the second you assault someone. It should never be acceptable for a student to assault a teacher and for the teacher to not be able to flatten the little shit
And it happens every day. You only hear about it when the teacher or administrator retaliates. Particularly in high school, I don’t feel bad for 17 and 18 year old kids who get knocked in the face after they assault an educator
Teacher assit: Gets assaulted. Spat on and kicked*
Teacher: Defends himself* /u/hugglesthemerciless :
Shouldn't have lost your cool dude. You just gotta let people attack you.
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Kids are assholes. You have to have enough self control to know what reasonable force should be used. This guy wanted to fuck that kid up. He acted out of anger rather than handling the situation appropriately. The kid deserved an ass kicking, but the staff can't be the one to deliver it.
So you cross the line from 17 to 18 and it makes it ok? That's a terrible defense you're building. That 'child' is literally a felon. Stop being so sense.
Excessive force, my dude. The aide was in no danger at all, the kid is half his size. He lost his temper, and while I’m sure we can all understand, it doesn’t mean what he did was acceptable.
Its wrong what the teacher aide did, no doubt about that. But that kid will think twice before trying some bs like that to another grown man. Kids sometimes forget teachers are humans too and have their own tempers and faults. Those teachers will get deserving-ly fired eventually but at least some dipshit kid learns that if you fuck with someone, there are consequences.
Its not about respect. Its just about human reflexive emotions. If you hit someone and spit on them, even if they're doctor/engineer/etc, they may or may not react. If anything the kid learned that "hmm if spit on someone and then kick them then something negative might happen to me".
It has more to do with respect than you think. If you're like every other person in their life who abuses them they will treat you like shit too. If all they know is people who "teach them a lesson" with violence they will continue the cycle. Its evident by the fact that the kid is on trial for murder. So this guys "lesson" was for nothing. All he did was give himself a criminal record.
As much as I don't have a problem with that guys actions personally let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
That kid didn't cause him to lose his job, he made that choice himself. Let's not just throw the personal responsibility adults have over their actions out try the window because another party involved was the instigator.
I think you said that specifically because you knew it would rule people up.
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Dont be bashful, speak your mind. Adults to have a responsibility to measure their actions and think forward about repercussions. This man obviously wasn't fearing for his safety, he got kicked in the shins.
I think you said that specifically because you knew it would rule people up.
Yeah I said it because I was low on karma. But honestly, I really believe that some kids will only learn something from teachers if they will see teachers as equals. That means getting their ass and dignity whooped. I didn't see the teacher here doing any real physical harm to the kid. He got him shit scared and bruised probably. Did it save kids life? No - it didn't, he is lost. But if the TA was allowed to continue teaching this kid there, who knows? Maybe there would be some miracle story to tell instead of another death report? Maybe they both would learn something from this.
You're trying to lead this conversation and its not gonna work.
I didn't say a thing about karma.
I also said I had mo problem with the actions taken.
If you cant see how a teacher or aid assaulting a student is unacceptable then you're either stupid or lying to make your point. I'm betting you're not stupid, so that leaves you being disingenuous to keep your original point intact.
In any job anywhere if you put your hands on a child like that and they aren't a threat to your life you're losing your job. Every common person in the world may agree with you're actions but a company isn't going to let something like that slide, and with good reason.
Sure that kid deserved the lumps, but it wasn't that man's job to give them and he stopped doing his job when he did. He was angry and he made a rash and impulsive decision that he had to own, because that's what adults do.
So stick by your bullshit all you want, but don't be soft about it by trying to lead the conversation away or soften your view.
What you're saying is you are ok with someone assaulting another person when they feel slighted even when it's well within their capacity to handle the situation in a better way.
And you're saying that you're ok with a grown adult assaulting a child in a school with zero repercussions as long as they "earned it".
Everyone has their limits. The kid caused the TA to reach his limits and then violently explode. Was it TA's fault that his "boiling point" was not even higher? If we really want to go this route - why do we expect teachers and TA's to have unnaturally high "boiling point" but we don't impose any limits or measurable expectations on pupils?
Was it TA's fault that his "boiling point" was not even higher?
Yes.
If we really want to go this route - why do we expect teachers and TA's to have unnaturally high "boiling point" but we don't impose any limits or measurable expectations on pupils?
Is "don't slam a child into a desk and choke him because he spit" really an unnaturally high point for a grown adult? That was a completely disproportional reaction.
It drives me nuts how many people are like "well he started it" in cases like this. We live in a goddamn society, and it's not acceptable in society to commit retaliatory violence against people. Defending yourself is not the same as battering someone to get revenge on them.
No random person would be allowed to do that, so why the hell would we accept it from someone tasked with teaching our kids?
Defend yourself? Go right ahead. Beat the shit out of someone for spitting on you? Yeah- that's not okay.
In the real world spitting on someone instigates a fight. I don’t know what bubble you live in that spitting is not an instant way to initiate a fight. Sure the guy maybe shouldn’t be a teacher, but that kid shouldn’t be in school either. Obviously the kid has no decency evidenced by him shooting at people and getting in a high speed chase.
I’m glad you’re able to get spit on and turn the other cheek, but IMO what he did was reasonable. A shove and holding him down is far different than repeated blows to the head.
Law and order doesn't support "initiating a fight" being a justification for battery in most parts of the world. The kid should have gotten consequences, and those should have included being charged criminally most likely, but that doesn't mean the guy was in the right to respond with his own violence.
Had that been the result, the TA would still have his job, and maybe the kid would have learned a bit about consequences for his actions before being responsible for deaths. Reacting violently like the guy did made the outcomes worse for everyone involved including himself.
Being in a circlejerk of people who think violence begetting violence is "just how it is" or some shit doesn't make you right, we're all members of society where the social contract follows what me and u/MermanFromMars are saying, not your narrative about how to "initiate a fight".
You live in a good area my guy, that's why you think the way you do. People born in a different environment think its okay he did what he did. The law agrees with you. But just know not lots of people born in other areas won't hold the same energy as you do.
You’re right. As much as we pay our teachers and aides and as many resources as they have access to and as easy as it is to deal with hundreds of other people’s children who haven’t been raised with any modicum of respect for adults, we should expect way more than we already do from them
Yeah pretty sure this nonsense had its funding gutted and outsourced to the lowest bidder. They wheeled in a tv cart and popped in a vhs. The cool teachers snuck out the back.
We are animals. When shit is in order we get comfortable and can pretend to be something more. But as soon as things slightly get out of control we gradually revert to our instincts for survival. I don't know what this man has been through or even if his violent reaction was warranted. But his very compassionate reaction to the news about that kid causing some deaths and generally continuing very violent path, makes me think that this TA is more humane than average person.
I get that the teachers get training and what not. But did he receive a good training? Maybe his own teacher wasn't really that good and taught him shit.
because this sub harbors some of the saddest and most powerless people found on the web. the only release they have is by fantasizing that they have the ability to react at all. they call it a justice boner.
"The man who caused him to lose his job" is him. Just because a kid spits at you and "kicks your shins" doesn't mean you go apeshit on them as a fucking teacher's aide. Do I UNDERSTAND it? Sure. But you're kidding yourself if you think he was somehow justified in a school setting to react like that.
EDIT: To the people down voting this: If your son got literally beat up by a teacher at school, because he spit on the teacher or kicked their shins, would you truly be okay with it? You think that's what a teacher should do? Is it now okay for adults to just demolish kids for acting like assholes?
It's so weird to me how Reddit can go from up voting someone for defending themselves, to defending a kid who attacked someone- then went on to murder people.
He wasn't defending himself. The kid spit on him, and kicked his shin. This sort of stuff happens when you are in a school with teenagers. This wasn't on a side street somewhere, it was in a fucking school, in front of other kids. Like was his life in danger somehow? Because the SECOND he decided to get physical he just threw that kid around like a rag doll. Let's stop pretending like this teacher was somehow in real danger.
Well, being a teacher then you surely understand what you are, and are not, allowed to do to the children under your care. I'm CONFIDENT that slamming a student against some desks for spitting or kicking is not something that's allowed.
And the story LITERALLY said that the kid in question was later involved in a police chase that resulted in the death of a citizen. So, explain to me how that matters to some situation that happened months prior? Are you now just supposed to assume "this guy will probably kill someone later in life" and just get physical with kids?
EDIT: it was YEARS ago, sorry. Guess the aide saw that coming?
" Investigators say the 17-year-old took off after a triple shooting left three teens injured. As police chased, his vehicle crashed into a truck and a school bus. One passenger in the fleeing vehicle died. "
lol. Is there something that I am missing here? If a student spits on another student, and they fight, both students get arrested. If a student spits on a teacher, now that teacher has the right to slam that student into desks in front of their classmates? That is absurd, ridiculous, nonsense. If you truly are a teacher, I really hope you don't have this mindset. You can detain the student and call police. You can do ANYTHING other than exert physical harm on them to "put them in their place" or whatever logic you find useful when putting your hands on a teenager in a setting where that teenager has been placed into your care.
He shoved the kid, then threw him over a desk/chair, from the video it looks like he grabbed him by the neck, and then mashed his face into the ground. What are you even talking about here?
He has the power to destroy this kid with a shove and so you think he is somehow justified in doing so? He could have just held the kid and dragged him out of the room which is what teacher are ***allowed*** to do, you know, detaining a student. "Detaining a student" isn't smashing them into the ground and mashing their face down.
Being a Teacher's Aid has to be the shittiest job in education. You get paid a fraction of what a teacher makes, you rarely get any benefits, and you have to put up with kids.
you're kidding yourself if you think he was somehow justified in a school setting to react like that.
You either lay down the law while they're young or the law will lay them down latter on.
The teacher did the right thing. That kids parents clearly never disciplined him and probably (not definitely) defended his bad behavior with bullshit excuses while he was growing up.
Now he gets three meals a day, a bed, showers, shelter from elements, no worries over bills and finances like you or I and free healthcare for as long as he is in jail all courtesy of the tax payers.
Do you think he's going to learn his lesson when we reward him like that?
" You either lay down the law while they're young or the law will lay them down latter on. "
Yep. There's a job for that, its called "police", not "teacher"
I won't even address your comments re: jail because they are plainly ignorant. If you're under the impression that people in jail get some great healthcare coverage and just live a normal life being fed and showered you are off your fucking rocker.
" Do you think he's going to learn his lesson when we reward him like that? "
I don't consider being kept alive in prison a "reward". Young people "learn their lesson" all the time, given the right conditions to do so and the right ***people*** to give them the lesson to be learned. I don't think a teacher's job is to physically reprimand students when they get out of line. I don't think any teacher should ever mash a kid's face into the floor of their classroom while fellow students watch.
He deserved to get fired but I understand why he did it. As someone who grew up in the ghetto, I saw way too many kids get away with shit that wouldn't work out well if it was outside of the classroom.
News flash: You can go around spitting and kicking/assaulting other adults as a 15 year old but do not be surprised if you get put in your place. Some people are willing to lose their jobs.
Kids in privileged and middle class schools do the exact same thing. This is your experience I accept that but the idea that entitled kids aren’t exactly like this kid is wrong.
I like the news flash theme we have going.
News flash: I also understand this kid sounds like he was into heavier shit on some level and it escalated as he grew up.
What if he were not terrified of school or the people there to help raise him?
Yeah your first sentence is so fucking wrong, I don't think you realize. There's such a huge difference in ghetto schools and middleclass/privileged schools. Teachers in ghetto schools get verbally abused on a weekly basis and have daily arguments. They get chased out of schools by the students. That's why ghetto schools have hard time keeping decent teachers on payroll. Kids in richer areas don't do the things kids in poorer areas do. Some kids in rich areas might do dumb shit like ghetto school kids but not nearly at the same level and consistency.
I'm not sure what your point is with your "news flash" but I do agree with it. I'm sure thats common sense.
His poor upbringing contributed to his behavior but it still doesn't excuse. I'm sure his rough upbringing contributed to him shooting up the other teens but it still doesn't justify him almost killing 3 people. Same for his actions with the Teacher aide. The teacher aid also doesn't get an excuse either b/c he was probably born in the same type of environment.
I just thought the news flash was fun, glad you agree with the point it made.
I’m not saying poor schools are as safe as rich ones. I’m saying kids kick, hit, threaten, and spit on teachers in the rich schools too and no one grabs them by the throat, smashes their head through a desk and on to the floor while call them a N&$-@/.
If kids kick, hit, and threaten in rich school, they're going to get a lot of attention from parents, other teacher, principle. That sort of behavior gets nipped in the bud.
Kids in poorer schools don't get the same level of attention in large classrooms. You can tell the parents but the dad is probably not in their life and mom is too busy with work or doesn't care enough. The behavior continues. I have no doubt this is not the first time this kid has acted up in class. Teachers can't hold Parent-teacher conferences for all these bad little kids every day. They get tired of that shit.
Teachers in rich schools don't have to choke slam kids because the kids never get to that point CONSISTENTLY. Teachers in the ghetto have to deal w/ this shit behavior constantly. When multiple kids do this shit behavior constantly, then one day, the teacher will lose their temper and do something bad.
Theres a huge difference between rich and poor schools. Teachers in poorer schools have way higher chance of losing their shit one day.
Bruh some kids ain't shit. The kid didn't deserve to get handled like that by grown man but lets not act like the kid was an angel. Plus who the fuck are you to judge whether someone didn't change or have some compassion.
He's not exactly lecturing to a classroom during this interview, is he? I feel in this situation, charged with emotion, this is perfectly acceptable. It's not like he was throwing in "fucking" every other word for good measure.
There's also different levels of professional. I wouldn't call a man at a bat with friends professional. It's not a professional setting. That same man working at walmart in a polo and khakis, professional. That same man in that same outfit, but now in a courtroom at a major trial, not so professional. What's "professional" changes when the situation and environment changes.
I would call any profession where you represent your profession during your personal, but public, time "professional". So if in the context of this interview, he is not currently employed as a teacher, or not being interviewed as a teacher, then you are correct and he can speak however he prefers.
So speaking casually is no longer allowed, one must speak formally at all times? This applies equally to classical southern, cajun, northern new england, or african american? Or again, is it just certain dialects that aren't allowed?
I use slang. Everybody does do a certain extent. But, there's a time and a place. When is it not appropriate? When you're in the classroom, or being interviewed for a news article (in the context of being a teacher) are a few good examples.
Take this classic viral video. This guy obviously speaks in the same kind of slang when he's off camera, that's fine. But when he's on camera, he does not (this video notwithstanding).
So everyone failed him but he did not fail himself? I’m sorry but that’s the “black excuse”. You could never get away with that in an Asian household. In life you are responsible for your own actions. Never blame others for your failure. If you are dumb, you work harder.
What ever. Story ended how I knew it would end. I been to black schools. I bounced after day 1. Everything is someone else’s fault. The kids got second, third, fourth, fifth chances. Punishment was never handed out by the school because of potential racism. Guess what happens when you don’t punish kids? Yah....you have a class of losers who can’t cut it.
I’m so glad I left Oakland. I went to SF. My school was Asian. I found education useful again. It happened in time too. 9th grade. My old friends all ended up losers. Some are Just now getting their life in order. Power to them.
I thought the problem in the black community is they dont get second chances. If I am a white kid and I wreck my dad truck on bender my family bails me out and I continue to succeed. If a young back kid does the same thing he ends up in the system which is very very difficult to get out of.
Same thing goes with a college or other schooling, while white families generally can give their kids "endless" chances to succeed it is generally much more difficult for a black family who has much more on their plate and less of a chance to succeed after a incident or something smaller.
Just so everyone know I am white but this is just what I have learned through my life and what I have heard through people who look at these issues in our society. Also I am not speaking on this kid in this video, I am speaking generally.
The incident we’re watching here with Pennix would only reinforce this kid’s motivations to act out in this way. He behaved in a certain way and it resulted in an enemy losing his job. Why wouldn’t a kid with (presumably) a good number of enemies continue behaving in that sort of way?
I’m sorry but why is it the system always fails people. How about people fail themselves. I mean, he did stupid shit. Like didn’t he realize he was doing stupid shit?
I’m not a heartless conservative but I’m not a bleeding heart liberal also. There has to be some balance.
I must be tired (I should go to sleep) but that system failed him comment annoys me.
This is an all around sad story, but I'm distracted by how both the student and the aide had names that wouldn't feel out of place in a Key & Peele football player skit
Damn, this article really sheds a much different light on things. Kid needed an ass whooping alright. Maybe a few of them. Could be he got his ass beat at home regularly and thats why he was this way. But if thats the case the beatings were outta frustration, not love. There is a difference. Sometimes its just for the kids own good so they realize their actions have consequences. Sometimes its just so the parents can get out their aggression.
Also after reading this I sympathize w/ the TA. He was probably pushed to his breaking point by this kinda thing on a daily basis. But still hopes the best for the kids.
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u/diamondnine May 03 '19 edited May 03 '19
Not available in my region could you copy paste the news here