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>A substitute teacher in North Carolina was fired this week after video footage emerged of him slamming a 12-year-old student to the ground.
>The incident, which took place Wednesday at Western Guilford Middle School in Greensboro, was sparked after the teacher apparently took away student Jose Escudero's Valentine's Day chocolates.
>Escudero told Fox 8 that the teacher took away the candy, and when he tried to retrieve the sweets and put them in the backpack after class, the teacher allegedly tried to stop him.
>The teacher, according to Escudero, attempted to grab the box from him, before allegedly grabbing the 12-year-old by the shirt and pinning him against the wall before throwing him over his shoulder and onto the ground.
>The incident, which took place Wednesday at Western Guilford Middle School in Greensboro, was sparked after the teacher apparently took away student Jose Escudero's Valentine's Day chocolates.
>Escudero told Fox 8 that the teacher took away the candy, and when he tried to retrieve the sweets and put them in the backpack after class, the teacher allegedly tried to stop him.
>The teacher, according to Escudero, attempted to grab the box from him, before allegedly grabbing the 12-year-old by the shirt and pinning him against the wall before throwing him over his shoulder and onto the ground.
