Teacher Sabrina Milo, who was arrested after threatening to bring a machine gun to her Brooklyn high school and "settle some scores," was released from Rikers on $100,000 bail yesterday and returned to her home on Staten Island. A few neighbors seem worried to have her around; one man who lives across the street said, "I think she should be locked up." However, Milo's lawyer insists it was all a big misunderstanding: "No reasonable person who knows Ms. Milo would have believed that she meant her alleged comments as anything but an exaggerated personal venting," he told the Staten Island Advance. Maybe, but shouldn't a teacher know better than to joke about that kind of stuff in school?
Other neighbors say she never posed a threat. "I'm not worried," said one woman. "What is she going to do? Shoot my children? I think this whole thing was blown out of proportion." However, police are worried that because her husband is a military veteran and a JROTC teacher, she might have access to weapons.
Another neighbor said, "I'm pretty sure she said it without planning to do something like that. She was probably just having a bad day," and many of her students have come to her defense. One student wrote on RateMyTeachers (after Milo's arrest), "Wonderful understanding person with patience and who cares about all her students."
