Blame The Parents…

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

First-graders generally do not walk into reading class with a loaded 9mm, shoot the teacher, and then dare the police to come get them. But in this case, that is exactly what happened.

Body-camera footage from a shooting at Richneck Elementary in Newport News, Virginia, was released this week after over three years of being sealed.

The video shows a 6-year-old, identified in court records only as J.T., who had already shot first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner. Reading specialist Amy Kovac had him in a bear hug when Newport News Officer Brian Torrez walked into the classroom 11. What happened next was even more astounding.

THIS IS CRAZY. UNREAL.

Bodycam footage from the January 6, 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia has now been unsealed.

A 6-year-old black student stole his mother’s loaded 9mm Taurus, brought it to school, and shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner.

Listen to the kid cussing at the police.

‘F*ck you, I shot my teacher!’

‘F*ck you b*tch.’

‘I stole it because I needed to shoot my teacher.’

‘If you want a piece of me, come get it!’

He even tries to punch the woman holding him.

Keep in mind, this is after shooting his teacher at point blank range in a crowded elementary school classroom.

Thankfully the gun jammed as several more rounds were still seated in the magazine.

The bullet passed through Zwerner’s hand and entered her chest, collapsing her lung.

She required life saving medical treatment but made a full recovery.

Zwerner later won a $10 million civil verdict against former assistant principal Ebony Parker, who had received information that the kid might have a gun that day but still decided to do nothing.

Ebony was also criminally charged with eight felony child-neglect counts for not preventing the shooting, but in May 2026 a judge dismissed all of those charges

(Wonder what ‘Ebony’ looks like)

The boy was not charged or prosecuted because of his age, while his mother faced separate criminal charges related to the firearm.

The mother is currently free.

Expect to see this kid in the news very soon.

Also. I wonder if that teacher is a horrible racist right now.

You know. Because of the color of his skin and all that terrible racist stuff we are supposed to ignore. https://t.co/7fBNnVBN7C

— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) October 7, 2026

A 6 year old black child SHOT a teacher in the arm and chest, then decided to say the most vile, expletives to the police around him. Six fucking years old!

Still think there’s no problem in the black community? https://t.co/SYqFtDELGy

— Jessica (@Jessica0877271) October 7, 2026

The kid is seen telling the officers, “Both y’all want a fucking piece of me, bitch?!” Kovac tells him to stop. He answers, “Fuck you, bitch,” and on and on it goes from there.

This is a kid who is barely older than toddler age.

He told them he stole the gun from his mother. A sheriff’s deputy found the 9mm Taurus on the classroom floor, 15 to 20 feet away, with seven more rounds still in it. Zwerner had already got her students out. The bullet went through her hand and into her chest. She collapsed in the school office.

Police Chief Steve Drew said at the time that the shooting “was not accidental. It was intentional,” and called Zwerner “a hero.”

The gun belonged to Deja Nicole Taylor’s. Court documents say her son climbed onto her dresser that morning, took it from her purse, and put it in his backpack. Investigators later found about an ounce of marijuana in the home. Taylor pleaded guilty to felony child neglect and to federal charges for lying about drug use on the form she used to buy the pistol.

Circuit Court Judge Christopher Papile gave her two years on the state count, more than the six months prosecutors had asked for. “A parent’s ultimate and overarching and primary and paramount responsibility is to keep a child safe,” he said. “To protect the child. To keep them from bad influences. To keep them from dangerous situations. To keep them healthy and nurtured. Ms. Taylor has abdicated most if not all of these responsibilities.”

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis, sentencing her to 21 months on the federal counts, called it “a dereliction of duty and responsibility in parenting” and said the case “cries out for imprisonment.” She has since been released. The boy, now 9 or 10, lives in Newport News with his great-grandfather. He was never charged. Virginia does not prosecute 6-year-olds.

The school had warnings the same day. Staff told assistant principal Ebony Parker the child might have a gun. A jury later found that doing nothing was gross negligence and awarded Zwerner $10 million. Her lawyer, Diane Toscano, told that jury: “Who would think a 6-year-old would bring a gun to school and shoot their teacher? It’s Dr. Parker’s job to believe that that is possible. It’s her job to investigate it and get to the very bottom of it.” Parker’s lawyer called that “Monday morning quarterbacking.”

In May 2026 a judge threw out eight felony child-neglect counts against Parker before the case ever reached a verdict. Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Robinson said from the bench, “What happened that day was awful,” and later, defending the decision to blur the child’s face on the public tape, “I signed up for that, but this 6-year-old did not.”

Awful is not an explanation. A first-grader who tells police he stole a gun so he could shoot his teacher did not arrive at that sentence in a vacuum.

The Richneck tape lands in the same feed as clips of other children who have not shot anyone yet but are already rehearsing the part.

One, posted last month, shows toddlers hanging out of a car window with styrofoam cups, throwing finger guns and middle fingers. The account that spread it asked why anyone was surprised to see “their offspring throwing up gun hand gestures and sticking up the middle finger.”

Why am I not surprised to see their offspring throwing up gun hand gestures and sticking up the middle finger?

Rather than teach and pass down traits and behaviors that will prepare and benefit their children to grow up and become productive members of society, this is what they’re instead busy teaching and showing them.

There’s just no fixing this. The experiment failed.

— Viral Videos? (@ViralVideos) September 23, 2026

Commentator Jeffery Mead urged, “This is very clear evidence of a problematic culture. Black Americans as a whole have a culture problem and our standards are too low. We have to fix the culture.”

This is very clear evidence of a problematic culture.

Black Americans as a whole have a culture problem and our standards are too low..

We have to fix the culture. pic.twitter.com/3pU4fVCmc8

— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) September 26, 2026

A separate clip of two little girls in matching pink, bandanas and beads, drew the same argument from the comments under it: the degenerate performance is being rewarded, not corrected.

More trash ratchet behavior from the black community. Hundreds of comments laughing and encouraging this filth from a 3 & 5 year old. https://t.co/xZNE17IZ5B

— Foxx ? (@NadjiaFoxx) September 30, 2026

These kids are like this for a reason, and we all know what the reason is. The parents.

Remember when Shiloh Hendrix was called a racist for using the N-word when a supposedly five year old kid was robbing her kid on the playground? This kid is five.?

— TransOdius (@TransOdius) October 7, 2026

None of these children are naturally like this. The head bobbing, the finger guns, the “come get it, bitch” attitude. Sometimes mimicry is cute, until a teacher is bleeding out on the office floor and other children are cowering for their lives.