A Georgia middle school teacher was charged with making terroristic threats and cruelty to children in the third degree after saying he would behead a student who said an Israeli flag he hung in his classroom is offensive, NBC News reports.
Fifty-one-year-old Benjamin Reese, a seventh grade teacher at Warner Robins Middle School in Houston County, was charged after he made the threat in front of 18 students who heard him say he would “cut her head off” to the student as he followed the student into the hall, shouting. Other teachers said Reese was yelling loud enough to be heard in other classrooms. One educator told officials he heard Reese tell the girl that she was antisemitic and he was going to slit her throat in the classroom before dragging outside where he would behead her.