A Toronto teacher has been relieved of their duties pending an investigation after showing a group of Grade 5 and 6 students “a portion of a violent video” related to the assassination of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Corvette Junior Public School principal Jennifer Koptie, in a letter sent to parents on Friday, said the incident is “extremely troubling and unacceptable.”

Koptie said that the footage was shown to the French Immersion students because they had questions “about a recent tragic event in the United States.”

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“The video is believed to have been shown once by a staff member supervising the class who is not the homeroom teacher,” Koptie wrote.

The Toronto District School Board, which supplied a copy of the

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