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a local teacher is put on leave over an
offensive assignment she handed out in
class depicting a former president
alongside several primates
off the top tonight at six that incident
ratching up tensions at the roper school
in bloomfield hills tonight the school
is doing its best to make sense of what
happened and what the teacher intended
sean lay live with the story shawn
regardless of intent students and
families are really upset over
what was on that worksheet
and here's what's happening right now at
the school
no class today we saw birmingham police
positioned outside all day long that's
because of online threats made after all
of this was made public now i did speak
with the school's director of diversity
she tells me right away she spoke with
the teacher and she had plenty of
questions for her
when you saw it what was your reaction
when i saw it i couldn't believe it
carolyn lett is the director of
diversity for the roper school a roper
teacher now on administrative leave for
her evolution lesson to students that
included this photo of former president
barack obama let solid and she had
questions is it something that the
teacher did you know purposely put this
picture in along with the animals and
the apes and the primates i'm trying to
understand this myself but right away i
had a reaction like you know is so wrong
i can't understand it and this is what
the teacher told her and the roper
administration she had her uh biology
hat on but didn't realize the height you
know the sensitivity and awareness that
she should have had culturally the
lesson includes more than one photo of
the former president it's from a duke
university website lett says the offense
of images have hurt roper students and
she asked the teacher what is she going
to do about this now her intentions were
a certain way but the impact now she
realized it had a very negative effect
on her students i need to have a
conversation with my students and i said
what will you have what would that
conversation look like
on the mistake that you've done
back here live i asked let what's next
in all this she says after everyone's
emotional reaction to this she says
roper is gathering all the facts have a
lot of facts gathered now and they'll
present the facts to roper families and
move forward we're live in birmingham
tonight sean lay local four back to you
all right thank you sean
neighbors in a part of wyandotte have
been taking extra precautions with their
cars after more than two dozen vehicles
were vandalized in the span of a few
days all of the cars were parked between
oak street and alkali street west of
biddle avenue east of the railroad
tracks police have taken someone into
custody for all of these incidents megan
woods joins us now megan neighbors
understandably very upset
very upset i mean as you can imagine a
flat tire is not something you want to
see on your cars you're running out the
house to go to work or run errands and a
lot of these neighbors are saying that
they have no other choice but to park on
the street
they were making sure they destroyed
these vehicles neighbors were just
starting their day i walked right over
here and i was like what
i come over here
and i see more scratches there are more
than two dozen victims and let's just
say they were not happy with their
discovery i was shocked to see that
somebody was able to do this especially
to so many cars wyandotte police said
first came the calls about scratched
cars started here i think and then you
can see you know pressure wise he just
got deeper then the guy two doors down
got it really bad he i mean they made a
star in his back quarter panel archie
hamilton wine dot deputy police chief
said tuesday there were only about four
complaints but it didn't end there but
then the next night it seems like the
same suspect or suspects
stepped up their game and they started
puncturing tires on these vehicles
neighbors say it's frustrating i don't
know what's worse
the tire or the key even if their car
wasn't damaged i decided to put my
vehicle behind the gates to keep it safe
but a lot of these neighbors they have
to park on the street they have no
options police received video of the
suspect moments before and after the
damages were made that suspect is now in
custody but the question remains why
would you do that
that's what you want to ask
yes
we did speak to that suspect's family
they did not want to go on camera but
they did want to apologize for all the
damages that were made they also say
that they hope that their family member
gets the mental health support and the
substance abuse support that they really
need live in wyandotte i'm megan woods
local 4.
all right megan
blue skies sun's out it's just been
downright gorgeous well there's a little
clouds there but in general look at that
pretty darn nice though and paul heading
for even warmer temperatures yeah i'll
tell you what this is a great shot from
our belle isle sky cam our grand prix
sky cam looking at the track there and
you can see a lot of sunshine out there
a few clouds around some high clouds as
well and temperatures right now well at
metro are in the low 80s most of the
area is in the 70s right now but at
metro at least it's in the low 80s all
right storm tracker 4 still not showing
a whole lot going on there maybe one
little blip here that has just developed
in livingston county but we're watching
to the west where the models have
suggested oh and there they are a couple
things here popping up so we'll have to
keep an eye out over the next couple of
hours and see if any of those make it
into the area because once we get to
sundown things will stabilize and those
things will fall apart but through the
evening hours falling through the 70s to
the 60s by midnight with mostly dry
conditions for most of us again a spotty
shower is possible i'll be back to talk
more about your weekend and some very
interesting things about our friday
night storms all that coming up just a
bit
all right thank you very much paul
baby formula it is in high demand
scammers know it and tonight a help me
hang scam alert revealing how high tech
thieves are trying to trick parents and
leave them without any formula our
consumer investigator hank winchester
live tonight hank these scammers are
preying on the emotions so many parents
are feeling right now
karen you're absolutely right parents
are desperate to get their hands on
formula scammers know it and they're
looking to cash in
right now josh guerrero is like a lot of
parents frustrated searching for baby
formula for his own daughter we keep
searching and if we just switch formulas
again which is which one was again i
mean it's
frustrating people have been visiting
multiple stores scouring the net
desperately searching for formula no
luck scammers know it's in high demand
and they're making their move keep an
eye out for these scams that we've been
hearing about
email scams people asking for your
banking information in exchange for
sending formula
text message scams sending you fake
links about where you can find formula
right now
facebook scams they're all over the
place people exchanging information on
facebook about formula that's not true
the goal is to get your personal
information and price gouging it has
been happening all over the country when
it comes to stores raising prices the
attorney general has a team
investigating and wants to hear from you
as for the other scams beware if you get
a phone call or a text message from a
number that you don't recognize and
someone's offering you a great deal on
formula
no it's likely a scammer make sure that
you're being very cautious anytime
you're receiving a text message or an
email as well that you don't click on
any of the links within those messages
and no a lot of times these scammers
they're not just looking to get 10 or 20
bucks from you they're trying to get
your personal information because the
ultimate goal is to steal your identity
so be very careful and cautious we're
live here tonight hank winchester help
me hank local 4. this is horrible these
parents are dealing with so much and now
they have to deal with scammers all
right thank you hank
two macomb county leaders want millions
of federal dollars put toward reducing
people's water bills across metro
detroit with the exception of one city
the great lakes water authority says
upcoming rate hikes are partially due to
54 million dollars that highland park
hasn't paid in water and sewer costs but
the glwa is getting 25 million dollars
in new federal funding and today macomb
county executive mark hackel and public
works commissioner candace miller said
all of that money should be distributed
among the 111 other communities in glewa
in order to maintain water affordability
michigan secretary of state says she's a
target of former president donald
trump's false election claims in an
interview with nbc news benson reveals
what mr trump allegedly said about her
during a white house meeting
you've been called a traitor
it's been said that you should be locked
up
some of this went
very high up in our government even the
president himself had called on me to be
arrested and tried for treason
potentially executed all of it designed
not to spread reality instead designed
to intimidate and
designed to instill fear
and really designed as an attack on the
voters themselves
you will hear more from the secretary of
state during an exclusive interview on
nbc nightly news ahead at 6 30 right
here on local 4.