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The father of a Baraboo High School graduate forcibly pulled the district superintendent away from his daughter as she crossed the stage to receive a congratulatory handshake during the school’s graduation ceremony Friday.

The man, who is not being named to protect his daughter’s identity, ran onto the stage just after the girl had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands.

Before she could get to district Superintendent Rainey Briggs, the man, wearing a white polo shirt and baseball cap, grabbed Briggs by his right arm and pushed him away.

“That’s my daughter,” the man can be heard saying in video of the ceremony by TV43 Baraboo.

Briggs can be heard telling the man, “You better get up off me man. Get away from me bro” as staff working the graduation and three Baraboo police officers including the school resource officer intervened. At one point, a voice can be heard saying, “I don’t want her touching him.”

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Racist. That's the adjective describing the father that's - somehow, miraculously - missing from the quoted excerpt.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So the superintendent is the black guy in the video? That makes way more sense, I was thinking the complaints mentioned in the article were sexual or political or something along those lines and was pretty annoyed that there was no elaboration.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's actually missing from the entire article, an article which had the time to mention how there's a group trying to have a school board member recalled (without telling us how big or small the group is, who their members are and what other organizations they're connected to (e.g. Moms for Liberty)), list all of the group's alleged grievances (without looking into whether any of them have any validity), and link to the group's Facebook page (without discussing the prevalence of misinformation on those pages).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Lovely. MAGA racists are getting emboldened.