NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A crossing guard at Queens Metropolitan High School was caught on camera shoving and berating a student.
The video, which was first obtained by the New York Post, shows a woman who was working at Metropolitan Avenue outside the school’s campus in a crossing guard uniform say “okay stupid” before shoving a student twice and trying to grab his arm.
“Listen … listen…,” she says as she approaches him again.
He knocks her hand away and says “Don’t f**king touch me.” To which she responds “pay attention when I’m talking to you, stupid ass.”
“I’m here to save your stupid ass,” she continues. “What you did, right, you could have risked my life and yours. Do you understand that? Do you understand that?”
It’s unclear what happened with the child that led the crossing guard to behave this way.
She grabs him again, and he says “Stop touching me, bro!”
She continues to shove him and says “Then f**king stop. Then f**king … I’m talking to you.”
He responds by again telling her to leave him alone. “Stop touching me bro. I don’t want to talk to you, bro. Leave me the f**k alone,” he says. “You helped me cross the street, now f**k the f**k off.”
The NYPD said the crossing guard has been suspended without pay while the department conducts an internal review of her behavior.
The NYPD employs school crossing guards and is responsible for overseeing them. Police would not release the guard’s identity.
The school’s principal, Saida Rodriguez, sent an email to families about the video after a concerned parent brought it up during a Zoom meeting on Tuesday.
Rodriguez said the crossing guard is no longer at the school, and that the administration alerted the NYPD of the incident as soon as they became aware of the video.
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