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Teacher choked student at Barnard Elementary in DC, police say

A teacher has been arrested after he was caught on cam chocking a student, police said.

TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Rob MacPherson, Lifestyle-education-US-writing A poster showing third-grade pupils how to write in printed and cursive letters runs across the top of a blackboard at Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School in Ellicott City, Maryland on October 15, 2013. For third-grade pupils at Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School, learning to write joined-up letters is a no-brainer, but outside the classroom, grown-up Americans are debating whether the nation's children should be studying cursive at all. AFP PHOTO / Robert MacPherson (Photo credit should read Robert MacPherson/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — A teacher has been arrested after he was caught choking a student on a surveillance camera at Barnard Elementary School in D.C., Metropolitan police said.

The assault happened on January 17, around 3:20 p.m. in the 400 block of Decatur Street in Northwest D.C.

Police said 50-year-old Jarvis Bernard Massenburg, of Bowie physically assaulted a student. He was arrested on Thursday and charged with second degree child cruelty.