Teacher charged with battery after video allegedly shows him grabbing, carrying student

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A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested after he was seen on video grabbing a student in class and carrying him to a hallway where he pushed him, authorities said.

Jeffrey Paffumi, 47, was arrested Wednesday on a misdemeanor battery charge, a day after he grabbed the 14-year-old student at Buddy Taylor Middle School in Palm Coast, theA separate student used a cellphone to record Tuesday's encounter on video, and school administrators and the school's resource deputy were alerted on Wednesday, leading to Paffumi's arrest, authorities said.

The teen told the investigator he called Paffumi the disparaging name twice, and then Paffumi grabbed him, according to the arrest report. "I then treated him like an unruly student and grabbed him safely so he couldn't hurt himself or anybody else," the arrest report quotes Paffumi as saying.

 

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