HE GIVES THE COPS AN ‘F’
Asst. principal yells, ‘#^*% the police!’ in video
The assistant principal of an upstate high school has sparked outrage for screaming, “F- -k the police,” in a Facebook Live video he recorded during the Rochester protests.
Steven Lysenko, who is also a ninth-grade Advanced Placement teacher at Spencerport HS in the Rochester suburb of Spencerport, complained in the livestreamed broadcast about police targeting protesters even though “we didn’t do anything but chant and sing,” the video shows.
“Our peacekeepers ended up shooting pepper spray at us for singing and chanting and telling them what a s--tyassed job they were doing,” Lysenko (pictured) says in the video, which was copied and shared widely online on Sunday.
“They can f- -k right off, America!” he shouts, while wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.
“F- -k the police! F- -k Rochester Police Department!”
After his tirade, Lysenko signs off with a polite “thank you.”
School-district officials addressed the video in a message on Saturday, stressing that it would be “addressed as a confidential, personnel matter.”
“We apologize to our students, parents and community that you had to hear this language from one of our employees,” Spencerport Central School District said in a statement.
The district said it “stands in solidarity in support of racial equality and systemic change” and “we further stand in solidarity with peaceful protesters.”
“However,” it added, “when a District employee uses language in public or on social media that does not align with our Code of Conduct or demonstrate appropriate role modeling for students, that is something that we will not condone.”
Despite the video drawing condemnation, a Change.org petition demanding Lysenko not be fired had garnered more the 3,700 signatures as of late Sunday.
“He is setting a good example to the students at Spencerport showing us to fight for what we believe in. Swear words are just words and should not be a reason to be fired,” the petition says.
Lysenko, president of the local chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education, has previously used his social media to stand with Black Lives Matter.
“To any students — past or present — who follow me here: know that when you post “#WhiteLivesMatter, you are condoning White Supremacy. In that I will not abide!” he tweeted in June.
He also posted a Facebook video apologizing for using “police-centric and police-friendly language” in earlier discussions.
Lysenko did not respond Sunday to messages from The Post.
Rochester has seen four straight nights of protests since the release of police body-camera video showing the fatal March 23 arrest of an unarmed black man, Daniel Prude.