{"id":647,"date":"2019-03-19T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/19\/2019319hamden-school-employee-resigns-following-racial-tirade\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:35:07","slug":"2019319hamden-school-employee-resigns-following-racial-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/03\/19\/2019319hamden-school-employee-resigns-following-racial-tirade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamden school employee resigns following racial tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Jeremy Troetti<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1080.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:100.0%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/racist-resigns.png\" alt=\"racist resigns.png\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/racist-resigns.png\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/racist-resigns.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"1080x1080\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"racist resigns.png\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5c90f8d5b208fce1e86a94ea\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Corinne Terrone resigned from her position as a clerk in the Central Office of the Hamden school district following the release of a video in which she called a man the N-word and spit on him in an East Haven supermarket, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/news\/article\/Police-urge-victims-in-East-Haven-racial-slur-13698336.php\" target=\"_blank\">New Haven Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">East Haven Police Lt. Joseph Murgo said in a statement that the department \u201cis aware of this disturbing video and the hate speech contained in it,\u201d according to the Register.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hamden mayor Curt Leng also denounced Terrone\u2019s actions in a statement, per the Register.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWhat I saw was vile and shocking,\u201d Leng stated. \u201cWhile I am disgusted and disheartened seeing such hateful behavior, wildly unacceptable anywhere, I am thankful for the swift and effective actions taken by our school system to address this head on and make clear that hate and violence will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">There is currently no known motive for Terrone\u2019s actions. She faces a number of potential charges, including breach of peace and assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Following an outburst of racial slurs, a Hamden High clerk has resigned from the school district. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}