Teacher leaves home after receiving death threats for wearing ‘I can’t breathe’ T-shirt

A teacher in Los Angeles said she left her home with her daughter after receiving a number of death threats over wearing an “I can’t breathe” T-shirt during a virtual class.

An English teacher at El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills received the threats after a parent who was upset that race and social justice topics were being discussed in the class posted an image of the teacher on social media which was eventually picked up by a number of right-wing accounts.

After more than a week of threatening messages on social media, the woman fled her home and sought a restraining order against the parent and a conservative media personality who shared the image on Twitter.

The high school’s executive director David Hussey told the Los Angeles Times that the school was doing everything in its power to “help her and support her as best as we can.”