Whoopi Goldberg erupted at a school administrators accused of ignoring staff and student reports about a six-year-old pupil who had brought a weapon on campus. The unnamed Richneck Elementary School student later shot and injured teacher Abigail Zwerner, 25. Zwerner has announced she will sue the school after her lawyer claimed the administration “could not be bothered to intervene” – a claim which left The View presenter fuming.
Goldberg said: “A 25-year-old teacher who was shot in the chest by her six-year-old student who brought a gun to school intends to file a lawsuit.
“And her lawyer laid out a timeline of how many red flags officials ignored that day.”
The View then played a clip showing Zwerner’s lawyer Diane Toscano outlining how her client had raised the alarm alongside two other colleagues after learning of the pupil bringing a weapon on campus.
Toscano said: “Abby went to a school administrator, as was protocol, to tell them the six-year-old had threatened to beat up another child.
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“Another teacher went to the school administrator, she believes the boy put the gun in his pocket before going outside for recess. The administrator downplayed the report from the teacher and the possibility of a gun saying, and I quote, ‘well, he has little pockets’.
“A third teacher tells the administrator of another boy who is crying and fearful after he bravely confesses to his teacher the perpetrator showed him the gun at recess and threatened to shoot him if he told anybody.
“A fourth employee, who heard about the danger, asked the administrator for permission to search the boy, he was denied.”
Goldberg appeared visibly furious at the end of the clip, hitting out at the school administrators for failing to take action despite the alleged repeated warnings about the student’s threats.
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Behar said: “The beauty of this story is the right-wing of this country would have us believe that it has nothing to do with the guns and that the solution to these types of shootings is to arm the teachers.
“So now the teacher has a gun – was she supposed to teach the kid? What would’ve happened if she had a gun? Who was she supposed to shoot? They also say that a good guy with a gun is a good solution – well, there were good guys in Uvalde and they were too scared to go in against an AR-15.
“So that didn’t work. I would just like to say that this country needs to grow up, we need to grow up. We’re the only civilised country – well, not civilised but I guess democratic country in the world – that has this problem.
“We’re between Venezuela and Brazil with the most mass shootings. There were 40 mass shootings in the first 24 days of this year.”
Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said the attack on Zwerner was “intentional”.
The gun was legally purchased by the boy’s mother. The family said the gun was “secured” and said the boy has an “acute disability”.
Lawyers representing the six-year-old’s family said: “On behalf of the family of the child, we continue to pray for Ms Zwerner and wish her a complete and full recovery. Our hearts go out to all involved.”
Expres.co.uk has approached Richneck Elementary School for comment.
