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WATCH: N.J. Classroom Attack Video Goes Viral

WARNING: Strong language in video below. Viewer discretion advised. Clip posted after videos of an officer grabbing another student appear.

A video of a high school student attacked a 62-year-old teacher in January has been trending on Facebook - possibly in response to viral videos of a South Carolina police officer grabbing a student and flipping her.

Matt Walsh, a blogger affiliated with the Liberty Alliance, a conservative media outlet, shared the video on Facebook Thursday with his approximately 360,000 followers:

“Strangely, this video of a black student body slamming a 62 year old white teacher to the ground for taking his cell phone never went viral. There was no hand wringing over it. No attention paid to it. No outrage. No discussion of ’white on black’ violence. No conversation about the very real epidemic of students physically assaulting their teachers. Nobody calling this teenager a ’monster’ and a ’bully’ for committing felony assault against an innocent man. No hashtags. No mentions by the Black Lives Matter crew. No coverage on MSNBC or CNN or anywhere else. Just crickets.

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Nj.com unveiled the video in January, allegedly showing a 16-year-old freshman at John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson grabbing the teache and slamming him into the floor. The student was charged with aggravated assault, suspended and ultimately placed on home instruction.

Videos of the South Carolina incident show a Richland County Sheriff’s Deputy and school resource officer tossing a 16-year-old across a classroom, CNN reported. The dispute started when she refused a teacher’s orders to give up her cell phone; the officer was fired.

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