A former Florida elementary school teacher is on federal radar after posting several "concerning" YouTube videos. In one of them he says he wants to "seize" the school and the Miami-Dade County School Board building with armored tanks, school district officials confirmed.
David Givins said he wanted "200-plus armored tanks to seize North Hialeah Elementary School and Miami-Dade County Public School Board building."
"I am the superior teacher that will ever exist," he said. Not one of you Cuban teachers who taught at North Hialeah Elementary was my equal."
Givins worked at the school for 13 years before being fired in 2014 for "teacher certification issues," according to the school district.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokeswoman Daisy Gonzalez-Diego said the district was notified Monday by the Hialeah Police Department about Givins, "who had been posting concerning messages on social media," and that the school had heightened its security.
"The self-identified homeless person has posted dozens of video messages about M-DCPS, the president, the military and federal entities," Gonzalez-Diego said in an email. "We have a full-time Hialeah Police officer stationed at that school, as well as an armed guard. Information is also being circulated through the Fusion Center, where threat related information is received, analyzed, gathered, and shared."
Family members told school police that Givins moved to Washington, D.C., in May and they had not seen him since. Washington police said Givins contacted the department in July to report a theft.
