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I wish the Headline was more accurate.
Reading the story, he wasn’t arrested for blocking a handshake, he started forcibly dragging the superintendent to the back of the stage
That’s also called assault. Even blocking the hand would have been assault.
It's more likely battery than assault. Battery is just putting hands on. Assault generally needs higher threat level and/or more violent actions.
assault and battery are both vaguely termed legal definitions that depend on what state you're in.
in MN, there's no legal definition for battery, with assault being defined with multiple levels ranging from 'mere' threats through "poked me on the arm" to beating the shit out of someone.
In WI, where this happened, it seems they're the opposite with the only mention of 'assault' be related to sexual assault. and battery being similar to MN's assault charges. Though, I only took a cursory look through their laws.
So glad to hear the racist was arrested. Beautiful news!
I feel sorry for his daughter, because she'll be remembered in the community for having a racist father. I imagine there will be lasting harm from that.
I mostly feel sorry for the man who was attacked, and glad he wasn't further harmed. I also feel bad for the daughter, but I think it's sad that most of the comments on the YT video don't even mention the victim while sympathizing with the daughter.
Even if the community doesn't hold it against her, and I hope they don't, she'll never be able to forget.
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.
That sounds like more of an assault than a disorderly conduct.
This is one of those situations where I like to imagine what would have happened if the guy did that to a cop. Likely a litany of charges, including assaulting an officer, and would have had the shit beaten out of him.
01:09:20 if you don't want to go through that awful site.
Horrifically embarrassed for the graduate.
You can add “&t=1h9m20s” to the end of that URL to take folks straight there.
https://www.youtube.com/live/4bL5zRBns7I?si=Nj2s3lJ4t3o1hxAi&t=1h9m20s
Her reaction is absolutely predictable for "My dad is always making an ass of himself and decided to even be an ass at my graduation."
‘Why does my daughter never call or visit anymore!?’
Drinkwater is a funny surname.
Also, that girl's face tells me she isn't unfamiliar with how her dad is. Seemed really embarrassed that it was happening but not really surprised. Man, what a dad
blocking black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand
is something of an understated headline. Looks like he straight up assaulted the superintendent.
Yeah if the roles were reversed it probably would have been worded very differently.
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.
What are the odds he has the word "blacked" in his PornHub search history?
Better than 50%
The article also mentions that it may have happened because the father was unhappy with how the superintendent had dealt with the daughter being bullied.
I mean, that's what he said.
But he didn't care about the white principal...
And he didn't just stop a handshake, he bullrushes the guy off the stage.
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.
"Social media comments" = some redditors making shit up because they can't admit that racism exists.
It doesn't matter the source. Could be Facebook friends of the racist. A school superintendent does not handle bullying issues other than setting a general policy, being in the loop for expulsion/lawsuits, and firing negligent principals. It's horse shit however you slice it. I think I met a superintendent once or twice.
"I was unhappy with how he was a black guy when dealing with it."
-the father probably.
If that was the case then he really hadn't thought of the optics of this.
If that's the case he picked a pretty bad time, place, and method of dealing with it.
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?
My god, that level of racism is stunning. I just can't believe it.
have ya met maga folks? they cray
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.
The girl looks confused and mortified. Poor kid just wanted to graduate...
Disorderly conduct? Shouldn't that be assault?
From a scientific standpoint I'd love to know what was going through the racist dad's head in that moment
From someone who grew up with a racist father, it was likely a juxtaposition of the handshake with stereotypes of hypersexuality and uncleanliness among black men mixed with sexist ideals of young women and their purity.
Too many facebook posts ending with "And Everyone Clapped".
In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.
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.