Brooklyn teacher threatens to go ,’Columbine’

A Brooklyn art teacher was arrested Friday for allegedly threatened to machine-gun her Bay Ridge high school in a Columbine-style rampage was arraigned yesterday and ordered held on $100,000 bail.

Sabrina Milo, 34, of Fort Hamilton HS on March 27, allegedly went off in the teacher break room saying she’d take a “machine gun under a trench coat and it would be Columbine all over again.” Prosecutors claim Milo made the threat in front of three other teachers, They told the principal, who told the city Department of Education.

Milo was charged on Friday with making “terroristic threats”, a Class D felony. Andrew Stoll, Milo’s lawyer said at the arraignment that she was “not a threat to anybody.” Many of us have had those days and perhaps this is a case of hyper sensitivity, but it is clearly a case of another teacher conducting themselves in a totally unprofessional manner .

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One Response to “Brooklyn teacher threatens to go ,’Columbine’”

1. michael saveme silverman says:

   April 3, 2011 at 10:37 am

   HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE EVEN TRUE?
   It seems everyone here has convicted her without hearing all the facts, only the allegations. We don’t even know who made this alleged report, or why they waited so long to report it. If it were reported right away I would say maybe the allegations were more credible. but the fact that time had elapsed shows doubt as the the authenticity of the allegation.

   It seems to me that Milo was well liked by her students but disliked by at least one or more her colleges and possibly the schools administration.

   if you don’t like someone all you need to do is make an anonymous phone call to 911 saying “so and so” has a gun, that you have seen it, and wham the police will break down anyone’s door, In this case tell some one you have heard them make a watered down statement.

   terrorist threats is a crime defined by statute, the one must make a threat, with an intent to cause fear, do so in a manner that is public, and must be specific to an action that is a crime.

   S 490.20 Making a terroristic threat.
   1. A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat when with intent
   to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a
   unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of
   a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she
   threatens to commit or cause to be committed a specified offense and
   thereby causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent
   commission of such offense.
   2. It shall be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section
   that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing
   the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who
   was a subject thereof.
   Making a terroristic threat is a class D felony.
   IT IS MY CONCLUSION THAT, no crime had been committed, her statement if true, had been distasteful but had not risen to the level of criminal conduct. there exist sufficient doubt to the veracity of the allegations. furthermore Prima facially the allegations do not meet the requirements proscribed in the statute to support the charges. Therefore,

   1) SCHOOL SAFETY AGENTS FALSELY ARRESTED MILO,
   2) that 1983 ACT color of law violations had occurred.
   3) Milo is still suffering false arrest.
   4) Milo is being maliciously prosecuted.
   I NOT AN ATTORNEY, this is not an exhaustive nor completely accurate list detailing the steps necessary to Sue the City of new york but rather a general “guide on” doing so, consult an attorney, for all cases are unique and have specific requirements due to the unique nature of each case.
   but I recommend,
   1) sending out a NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE to “all parties” to the city comptroller, very briefly describing the situation using proper verification language as required by NY CPLR rule 3202 (I believe)
   ******may also need to serve the attorney general of the state of NY.
   2) arranging a 50h hearing as may be proscribed by law
   3) sending a DEMAND LETTER no less than 30 days to the necessary individuals /agency’s before filing suit in state and federal court.
   ******also Accepting an ACD would bar bringing a Malicious prosecution suit as described by,Hollender v. TRUMP VIL COOP., 58 NY 2d 420 – NY:Court of Appeals 1983 and reaffirmed by O’BRIEN v. Alexander, 101 F. 3d 1479 – Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 1996,”[I] na malicious prosecution action, it is for the one who brings the suit to establish that the criminal proceeding… terminated in favor of the accused. Indeed, it is `only when [the]… final disposition is such as to indicate… innocence ‘that this burden is met.”

   Also I see a lot of people in this comment thread willing to accept double jeopardy and see criminal punishments imposed both in criminal court and by the DOE again with out knowing any facts. its amazing!

   Its bad enough that she has been exposed to public ridicule with malice aforethought (how did the media get there in-time to see the “perpwalk”), subject to criminal prosecution, and a civil punishment which will I’m sure will contain a punishment so remedial that it will constituent a criminal punishment at the preponderance of the evidence and not beyond a reasonable doubt.

   I remember hating the communists as a child because they would summarily ruin a citizens life, without due process. i am starting to see the same thing is happening here.

   heaven save this republic!