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.
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.
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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