Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand
Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand
The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows.The school district, which has had repeated problems with racism and antisemitism, held its graduation Friday. The father was arrested and...
The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows.
The school district, which has had repeated problems with racism and antisemitism, held its graduation Friday. The father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, Wisconsin News reported.
The father, who has been identified as 49-year-old Matt Eddy, jumped on stage, grabbed the superintendent and began dragging him to the back of the stage.
That sounds like more of an assault than a disorderly conduct.
I cannot imagine being so racist that I would leap on stage to stop a handshake. I also have to wonder at the misogyny, like does he think a handshake will defile his daughter? Must be dozens of delusional ideas just bouncing around in a racist's head like DVD logos.
01:09:20 if you don't want to go through that awful site.
Horrifically embarrassed for the graduate.
So, I'm from Baraboo. Though I haven't lived there in well over 10 years now, I still have friends and family who reside there still. The day after this happened, the video was already making its rounds in our various discord servers, getting texts from family members with the original video link and it was all around big deal. Everyone was fucking pissed at this guy and there were soooo many people in my circles that wanted to see him named, shamed and royaly buttfucked by the court of public opinion. It didn't take long at all for someone to go, "hey, I know that guy. He works at so and so" and I'm happy to see that the cat is out of the bag here. It seems he has been fired. His employer is well aware at this point and have scrubbed all mention of him from their website.
The one and only way to unfuck my hometown's garbage residents is to hang them out to dry in public and I'm glad this is national news. When someone wants to pull some racist shit, let it be known that we're gunna make sure their racist bullshit will be put on display for all the world to see and the consequences shall be their's and their's alone to bare for their stupid bullshitery. Baraboo is such a cute little town but GODDAMN some of these motherfuckers are an embarrassment to our town, our state and our county.
Local station News 3 claimed that social media comments say that the father was angry at the way the district handled bullying issues related to his daughter.
I don't buy that. She seems surprised and embarrassed. And I would think you would have an issue with the principal rather than the superintendent.
Also, whose social media comments? His? Random people?
In searching for the video, (already provided in this thread) I amazingly found that this appears to be the same school where a selection of boys from the class of 2018 posed for a gleeful photo of them throwing up the nazi salute.
That poor kid, I trully feel for her since this day was a huge deal and her Racist dad just permanently stained it for her, on top of the embarrassment that girl had with her peers.
Racists are getting way too emboldened
I call bullshit on the claim it's "because of how bullying cases were handled". Looks pretty straightforward, racist AF to me.
And even if that were true, or more likely he was a racist dickhead, either way: if he had such a big problem, if he wanted to protest...you don't have to publicly cross the stage at graduation. Not that he's smart enough to reason this out. But crossing the stage is a privilege, it is public recognition, it is a community event. The graduate need not be compelled to participate; she could have received her diploma in the mail (like most do, anyway) & stayed home.
Although judging by the girl's reaction, her father was acting off-the-cuff, alone, and without her knowledge. I'm hoping that's the case. Racism is fucking stupid.
Disorderly conduct? Shouldn't that be assault?
Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdKXd_SglA
Gonna go out on a limb and guess he's a republikkklown and proud member of cult45.
Bad dad. You just don’t do that to your daughter.
Bad, bad, dad.
The Sunglasses on basecap. It's so iconic.
Fucking Baraboo