A 27-year-old substitute teacher who was arrested Thursday after knocking down a high school student in a fistfight caught on video in Las Vegas — allegedly after the student called the teacher a racial slur — was released without bail.
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Re’Kwon Smith was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after his arrest Thursday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, adding that Smith — shackled and in street clothes — appeared Friday afternoon in court in front of Hearing Master Daniel Westmeyer.
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Westmeyer dropped Smith’s $9,000 bail and released him because he has no criminal history and was not determined to be a flight risk, KLAS-TV reported.
The station added that Smith’s release is contingent on him avoiding further arrests
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