A shocking video that appears to show a large transgender student violently pulling a smaller girl out of a bathroom stall at an upstate New York high school and violently punching her while dragging her by the hair has gone viral — and apparently resulted in a bomb threat at the school.
Both Greece Arcadia High School and Middle School outside Rochester were evacuated for several hours Friday after someone emailed an anonymous bomb threat apparently motivated by seeing the video after it was widely released Thursday.
“The Greece school district has failed to create a safe learning environment for its students,” read part of the email, which contained slurs and profanity. “They not only allow but encourage mentally ill and degenerate behavior.”
Greece Central School District Superintendent Kathleen Graupman said a bomb threat was forwarded to the district just after 6 a.m. after being sent to WROC Channel 8.
Graupman said the threat was connected to the video filmed in February that went viral on social media after the anti-trans news site Reduxx published in on X Thursday.
“To me, it qualifies as a hate crime,” Graupman said. “To me, I want to work as vigilantly as possible with our authorities to make sure whoever is responsible for this is prosecuted to the fullest extent.”
Graupman said the schools mobilized rapidly after the threat. Greece cops entered the buildings and swept them with the help of trained dogs, according to WHAM-TV.
“GPD was able to get into the building,” Graupman said. “They assures us that there was no threat, and we could resume classes and get kids back on campus.”
“That fight that occurred was significant and very, very upsetting and disturbing,” Graupman said.
“Our district took swift action with that. That was not an event that didn’t go unnoticed or got swept under the rug. That was an event that was dealt with very specifically and sensitively.”
Cops have not yet figured out who called in the bomb threat.
“I do think there was very intentional work done to cause harm and damage, and it’s using students and using kids as a pawn in that,” Graupman said. “And that frustrates me and greatly upsets me.”
Graupman did not return a call from The Post Saturday.
