Caught on camera egging on schoolyard brawl
A BROOKLYN mother has been arrested for pushing her daughter into a schoolyard scuffle — and then jumping into the fray, authorities said.
“Get her, get her!” an adult identified as Tameekah Douglas-Stanbury instructs her daughter during a fight caught on cell phone video outside Roy H. Mann Middle School in Mill Basin last month. “Punch her in the face.”
The mother is then seen jumping in and pulling the other girl’s braids.
Douglas-Stanbury, 38, was arraigned Monday. She is charged with assault and released on her own recognizance.
Sources said the Feb. 15 tussle was actually Round 2 of a fight that began several weeks earlier between Douglas-Stanbury’s 13-year-old daughter and another student.
Renee Tenpow, the mother of the other girl, told the Daily News that her daughter was standing up for a friend who was bullied by two classmates.
Tenpow said it got out of hand when the father of one of the alleged bullies threatened violence.
“My daughter sent me a video with the father of one of the bullies saying he’s coming up to the school to shoot up the kids,” Tenpow said.
Tenpow claims she went to the — school Jan. 29 with the video, but said school administrators only filed an internal report and didn’t call police.
“With everything going on in this world, you must take any threat seriously. There’s 500 kids to protect, I don’t know who this man is or what he’s capable of,” said Tenpow, 38, a mother of four. The video was turned over to the police, but no charges were filed.
Meanwhile, Tenpow said Douglas-Stanbury’s daughter kept calling her child’s phone.
“I answered pretending to be my daughter and said, ‘Why are you calling me?’ ” Tenpow explained. But Tenpow said it wasn’t the other student calling. She said it was her mother.
Weeks later, it came to a head with a fight at the school.
“All I saw was this woman holding my daughter down and hitting her with two other girls,” Tenpow said.
Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said school officials reported the fight to police, but she wouldn’t give any details about disciplinary action taken against the students, citing federal privacy laws.
Tenpow’s attorney Sanford Rubenstein says that while Douglas-Stanbury’s arrest is a step in the right the direction, the threat promising gunfire is still looming.
“The family remains very concerned with the threat made by the father . . . which has been reported to the NYPD’s intelligence division with regard to which it is believed no action has been taken by authorities,” said Rubenstein.