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.
Fucking Baraboo
Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdKXd_SglA
God, I wish normal YouTube links just worked with my revanced
You gotta disable the original youtube app.
Later Android versions have an “Open by Default” switch you can turn off on the official app. I’d rather keep it uninstalled but it’s an option.
Gonna go out on a limb and guess he’s a republikkklown and proud member of cult45.
Wisconsin. That’s all you need to know.
Yeah, looking at the other issues that have come out of this school district, it’s not terribly surprising what happened.
Baraboo. Fuck Baraboo.
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.
All he had to do is wait it out one more night and they would never have to see the scary man again. Instead, he announced to the world what is going on in his head and there’s nothing good in there.
The girl looks confused and mortified. Poor kid just wanted to graduate…
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.
not “than”, but “and”.
Assault is getting in the way.
Battery is touching him.
(though, as mentioned, laws vary by location, but generally speaking…)
Battery.
Oh agreed it’s still could be a crime, but the headline makes it sound like all he did was block a handshake, when really he did a lot more
That’s absurd
I assume you’re speaking about how it’s absurd to assault the superintendent in this circumstance, but your wording is concerningly vague
If you did the same to a police officer you can be sure they’d charge you with assault, after taking you to the ground and pummeling you no doubt.
Well yeah, but, they are above the law
Disorderly conduct? Shouldn’t that be assault?
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
Oh that poor girl. Seeing the confusion, shock, then sadly understanding flash across her face is just sad. This asshole ruined this moment in her life and made it memorable in a completely different, shitty way.
You are the hero we need.
Opposite of that girl’s dad.
"That’s the correct spot in the video.
I don’t want him touching the video progress bar!!"
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
From a scientific standpoint I’d love to know what was going through the racist dad’s head in that moment
Too many facebook posts ending with “And Everyone Clapped”.
In fairness, security dragging that guy off did elicit some applause.
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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.
This is my opinion too. I dont have racist parents (anymore than anyone can be said to have some degree of inherent racism we try hard to be mindful of and eliminate as we become more aware), but I did grow up around a lot of racists. I was always surprised that people I knew, even ones who had black friends and were otherwise fine towards other races, would get really weird about a white woman and a black man having some sexual relationship.
Then the guns came out and it was all kinds of horrific slurs towards the black man and the white woman both. I specifically remember the common understanding for these people was that a white woman was “ruined” beyond repair after being with a black man. Even when I was young, it just screams of an outrageous level of insecurity
Ah, so the drain the pool after Sammy Davis Jr swims level of racism
His wife probably made a comment about how handsome the SI is, and he spiraled inside his tiny head.
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.
would have had the shit beaten out of him.
It depends on how situation aware the cops are about all the cameras and witnesses. In an ideal case, they’d realize there are a lot of voting community members around them who made the time to attend a ceremony. Not a situation where people will just turn up the volume on their television sets.
They’d have shot him. They would have escalated the fight and then shot him if they were losing.
And if the father was black and it was a white cop on stage, the father would be dead.
…. that never perfectly hit the corner. Ever.
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.
My god, that level of racism is stunning. I just can’t believe it.
have ya met maga folks? they cray
You can’t believe it, because it’s probably not what happened. The real story is probably stupid and boring. This story however, gets clicks.
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.
Yep, which is why dad will have no consequences. Whole town is fucked.
Fortunately it doesn’t look like there were no consequences.
No word yet on legal consequences, but the court of public opinion has already sentenced him.
murkaaaaaa
I mean, plenty of shitty racists in EU as well
The Sunglasses on basecap. It’s so iconic.
