Mother Caught on Video Threatening Middle Schoolers She Says Were Bullying Her Daughter

Zachary Stieber
By Zachary Stieber
May 16, 2019US News
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Mother Caught on Video Threatening Middle Schoolers She Says Were Bullying Her Daughter
Niguel Hills Middle School in California in a file photo. (Google Maps)

A video captured inside a California middle school shows a mother threatening students who she claims were bullying her daughter online.

The video was taken on May 14 inside Niguel Hills Middle School, reported KTLA.

“Don’t post nothing about her. None of that. Y’all think y’all bullies? I’m a big bully, ok?” the mother tells some students.

“She’s a girl. Y’all are boys, ok? If y’all bully my daughter, if you look at her the wrong way, if you breathe the wrong way, send your mom to me. Sisters, aunts, anybody over 18, I’ll [expletive] them all up. Do you understand me?”

Warning: Video contains expletives.

“Leave my daughter alone and I’m not gonna say it again,” she added. She told the students she’d hand out free [expletive] whoopings.”

An adult is seen sitting at a desk at the front of the classroom as the mother stands beside her and threatens the students. The adult has not been identified.

The mother, Christian Tinsley, told CBS LA that she wanted to deal with the alleged bullying of her daughter by a group of boys.

“I think that sometimes when you’ve done everything you can do the way you’re supposed to do it, and it hasn’t been resolved, then sometimes as a parent…you have to decide if you’re going to go a step further and deal with any consequences,” said Tinsley.

The threats came after Tinsley dropped her daughter off on May 14. The girl cried and asked if she could skip school.

“She made a comment to me that if she wasn’t as strong as she was, she would have killed herself,” Tinsley said. “That’s when Mama Bear mode went into effect.”

She also said that her daughter was sexually harassed.

“She was sexually harassed at school on Friday. The school took action and they suspended the boy immediately, but because of the suspension, now she’s the bad person,” Tinsley told ABC 7. “Kids are committing suicide every day because they’re getting bullied, I don’t want that for my daughter. So what do I do when my daughter says she’s afraid to go to school?”

The mother was banned from the school after the cellphone video was circulated by news outlets, the Capistrano Unified School District told the Los Angeles Times. The district asked the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to investigate what happened, and the department is probing the case.

A district spokesman, Ryan Burris, said that the mother filed a complaint with the district about the bullying but the district investigated and did not find enough evidence to substantiate the claim.

“It seemed to come to an acceptable conclusion,” Burris said.

Then the mother showed up at the school. After she threatened the students on Tuesday, she told a campus administrator that her daughter had been bullied over the weekend.

“That’s currently under investigation,” Burris said. “I would say in general I think parents need to be more aware of what their kids are doing online and on social media. They’re young and they don’t know what’s appropriate. … It creates a lot of problems.”

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