HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — New video recorded by a student at Barrington Middle School in Lithia shows a now-fired art teacher throwing a Black baby doll in what appears to be a trash can after tying a cord around its neck and hanging it from a classroom television.

“She needs to be charged for it and licensed removed. Not be around kids at all,” said Aracelis Perez, whose son recorded the video of the doll being thrown away.

The incident promoted outrage online after another student’s mother posted the initial recording of the hanging doll, with parents and community leaders saying it evoked painful images of racial lynchings.

“They should not have to sit in the classroom and worry if they’re going to see images that can terrorize them for life,” said Hillsborough NAACP President Yvette Lewis. “If you don’t know your history, you’re bound to repeat it, and it was clear that this teacher did not know the history. Because if you knew your history and you knew what that meant and how it will invoke fear or intimidation to African Americans, you would have never done it.”

The NAACP defines a lynching as the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. One of the most notable lynchings in American history is that of Emmett Till. The Equal Justice Initiative says between the Civil War and World War II, more than 4,000 African Americans were lynched in the United States, with Florida having some of the highest statewide rates. The group says racial lynchings were used to enforce white supremacy and racial segregation.

“I look at the fact that how did we get here?” Lewis said. “You’re talking about the State of Florida…who removed certain books from our school system because of African American history, but yet this goes on. Maybe if we would have had those books…somebody would’ve got a clear understanding that this is not right.”

Lewis said incidents like this highlight the importance of teaching Black history and having conversations about hard topics.

“This is the very same reason why we need to incorporate more diversity training for people such as this within the school district,” she said.

10 Investigates called the now-fired teacher, Karen Savage, multiple times on Wednesday to get her side of the story. She did not answer the calls or return messages.

The district says the case is now with the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Professional Practice Services.

“I want her teaching certificate gone,” said Nina Williams, who posted the first viral video of the hanging doll online. “I don’t want her to be able to practice in another state. I don’t want her to be able to do what she did to my child and the other many children in that classroom to any other children.”

The FBI Tampa Office confirmed to 10 Investigates the incident is on its radar, but a spokesperson said it does not comment on whether an investigation is underway.