Schoolkid with gun is busted
A TEENAGE student who appeared “agitated” was caught with a loaded gun at a Brooklyn school on Wednesday, sources told the Daily News.
School administrators and a teacher at Intermediate School 171 in Cypress Hills notified school safety agents about 1:45 p.m. that the teen was acting up.
Officials questioned the 15-year-old boy, but he refused to calm down, the source said. Agents then noticed the handgun in the teen’s pocket.
They were able to seize a loaded .380-caliber firearm and take the teen into custody, cops said.
“Nothing is more important than the safety of students and staff. The NYPD swiftly responded,” city Education Department Toya Holness said.
On Monday, two teens were arrested after bringing handguns to Curtis High School on Staten Island. The incidents come as crime in schools is at an all-time low. A WOMAN WHO worked at a Queens medical practice for 43 years was fired from her job after revealing she had cancer, she claims in a lawsuit.
Robyn Perlman’s Brooklyn federal lawsuit filed Wednesday argues her firing from Ear, Nose & Throat Associates of New York was unfair payback after she challenged higherups about a series of decisions she thought were unjust.
She was fired and shoved out the door at the Flushing office in late March, soon after her lawyer complained to the practice about retaliation and discrimination against her.
Her firing took only 90 seconds, Perlman, 63, told the Daily News.
The Port Washington, L.I., woman said she wasn’t given any reason for being shown the door and given no time to pick up her stuff or say goodbye. Perlman said surgery treating her skin cancer was successful — and now she wants to hold her former bosses responsible for the firing.
Perlman’s lawyer, David Gottlieb said, “It is nothing short of despicable” that the company “would terminate Ms. Perlman after more than 40 years of service, only weeks after she complained that she was being discriminated against.”
In a statement, Ear, Nose & Throat Associates called Perlman’s allegations “baseless.”
Perlman started at the medical practice in 1973 as a 19-yearold part-time file clerk. She was one of a handful of employees at a practice that would balloon to 240 employees. Perlman stuck around and said she played an important role in its