“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective.

“I don’t think an apology, an ‘I’m sorry,’ makes this go away because there’s a lot of harm that was caused.” The damning footage from the graduation shows Eddy pushing Briggs aside as his daughter was receiving her diploma, saying “I don’t want her touching him.”

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    The guys “personal beef” is that the principal is black. He’s using bullying as a lie and an excuse to cover for his racism.

    If there’s a policy issue that is properly dealt with in writing, not grabbing someone at a graduation ceremony.

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      Well, it’s a good guess, given the country we live in. Is the bullying stuff corroborated/fact checked?

      Edit further I agree, making a public scene like this is not appropriate, regardless of any personal reason. He could have just instructed his daughter to walk right by and not stop.

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        511 months ago

        The article didn’t bother with it because it wants to paint a picture of racism

        There isn’t enough evidence for us to believe it was racist

      • Pandantic [they/them]
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        911 months ago

        “He rolled his eyes when I brought up the fact the same thing happened to her and it pissed me off. She was expelled for doing the same thing that was done to her, and nothing was done to the previous people.”

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      This guy is a racist

      Evidence for that? Like Wikipedia says, <citation needed>