Student Pepper Sprays Classmates and Principal At Banana Kelly High School In The Bronx

A student at a Bronx high school pepper-sprayed about 20 students and the school principal Monday afternoon. It's the third pepper-spraying incident at a New York City public school in recent weeks.

From The New York Times:

The school, Banana Kelly High School on Longwood Avenue, was evacuated for about an hour after the episode, which happened shortly before 1 p.m., the Department of Education said. Nine people were taken to Lincoln Hospital, and the other victims refused treatment, the Fire Department said.

The Department Of Education says the incident is under investigation.

On Tuesday, a 14 year-old girl in Harlem indiscriminately pepper-sprayed her classmates, sending 9 to the hospital. And earlier last month, 17 students in the Bronx were sent to the hospital after an assailant entered their school and discharged pepper spray.

Are students imitating what they see on the news? Self-defense sprays have peppered headlines across the country recently--from the questionable use of sprays against Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and at UC Davis in California, to the Wal-Mart shopper caught up in Black Friday mayhem.

Comments

[MikeyJaii]

11:41 AM on 01/04/2012

Tsk tsk, this will only end in violence.

[mrsentinel]

10:35 AM on 12/06/2011

I love pepper spray! I put it on everything. Except pancakes....

[Stateville1991]

10:02 PM on 12/05/2011

Hmm....I believe 'pepper-spray' should have been dispersed by a 'crop-duster' on the OWS goofballs!

[Moarku]

11:07 PM on 12/05/2011

Yes, that's totally the correct response to people using their First Amendment rights.

[ProfessorBIGWUN]

10:02 AM on 12/06/2011

Sometimes it's best to not even respond to such statements.

[mrsentinel]

10:36 AM on 12/06/2011

Yes.... yes it is! :-)

[Mike Check]

08:35 PM on 12/05/2011

Pepper spray is the new handshake.

[bjp4321]

08:17 PM on 12/05/2011

Maybe this student heard the news reports about how the police pepper sprayed those students sitting peacefully on the side walk for their protection. All this student was trying to do was protect their classmates from becomming violent. We all know that pepper spray is harmless. (satire)

[Humanitari Leandro]

07:01 PM on 12/05/2011

people should send a pepper spray to every single bad mayor in the US as a Xmas gift

"here pepper me now..."

bunch of puppetts of the bankstatorship they worship

now the country has gone nuts, Bravo foxy news for making the country look like a crazed pepper sparying party

[Captain Archer]

05:03 PM on 12/05/2011

Silly liberals.

[DMSmith]

07:37 PM on 12/05/2011

What is it you attribute to 'liberals' and why?
Seems your comment is what's silly.

[Bob Scofield]

07:53 PM on 12/05/2011

There are trolls that spend their days & nights visiting liberal-leaning websites and posting negative comments on every article, regardless of whether the article in question has anything to do with politics.

There are two types of trolls: those that get paid to do this, and the ones we should really feel sorry for, those who do it because they have nothing better to do and just do it for free.

He or she probably has "Silly liberals." copied onto his clipboard and pastes it into the comment box for articles that he doesn't understand.

[ForVivi]

07:59 PM on 12/05/2011

Projecting again?

[Mocha Blacque]

04:31 PM on 12/05/2011

i suppose the best solution is to allow MORE citizens to carry pepper spray! if that's a segment of our fellow Americans' solution to gun violence! o_O

[Cheri Boeneman]

03:57 PM on 12/05/2011

THIS is what the police are teaching our kids!

[reddrn63]

04:17 PM on 12/05/2011

No, the police are not teaching your kids or anyone else's. It is your responsibility.

[DMSmith]

07:39 PM on 12/05/2011

They teach by example - something no parent can change. Counter, maybe, but not change.
That comment is correct - if sad.

[Humanitari Leandro]

07:02 PM on 12/05/2011

yep , the brave are teaching how to be bravest, you pepper spray who ever does not agree with you, they are such mercenaries of the 1% and they get paid peanuts, shameful