If you open one in all your numerous social media apps, you’ll very possible see a viral video of a white gentleman with a pink MAGA hat getting the brakes beat off of him by a gaggle of college kids. According to Local12, that man has now been publicly recognized as 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts after he was arrested and charged with two counts of assault.
A subsequent investigation by the Buda Police Department decided that Watts was the aggressor and the kids have been defending themselves towards him.
The incident started as college students in Texas’ Hays Consolidated Independent School District have been demonstrating a peaceable protest towards ICE when Mr. MAGA allegedly started harassing them and making untoward feedback. When Watts acquired out of his truck to bodily confront one of many college students, a lady, all hell broke unfastened, as you see within the above video that was recorded by an unnamed scholar from Moe and Gene Johnson High School.
The teenagers instructed police that Watts made a beeline for the unnamed lady and attacked her, earlier than they intervened and got here to her protection.
When questioned concerning the incident, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pointed to a social media publish he made a few totally different Texas faculty that allowed college students to stroll out.
“Disruptive walkouts allowed by colleges result in simply this sort of chaos,” Abbott wrote. “Schools and employees who permit this conduct ought to be handled as co-conspirators and shouldn’t be resistant to felony conduct.”
“The scholar demonstration “was a lawful train of the constitutional rights to free speech and peaceable meeting,” Becerra mentioned. “No matter one’s political opinions, an grownup bears a transparent accountability to train restraint, particularly within the presence of youngsters. Violence or intimidation directed at a minor — significantly throughout a lawful, peaceable demonstration — has no place in a constitutional republic that is dependent upon the rule of regulation fairly than power.”
Hays CISD Superintendent Eric Wright despatched an e-mail to folks in an try to put the kibosh on future student-led protests and walk-outs.
The walkouts are inserting “a pressure on the sources of the college district and group regulation enforcement businesses — neither of which has any management over what occurs with nationwide immigration coverage,”
Wright goes on to say that if dad and mom need their kids to take part in civil disobedience, then they might want to signal them out of college, or else they are going to be given unexcused absences.
This thought of getting permission to protest undercuts the spirit of protest. It’s presupposed to be inconvenient, disruptive, and probably harmful.
That mentioned, it isn’t shocking that Wright is taking this stance, as his letter reveals that he’s extra involved about conservative PR than college students getting a real-life civics lesson.
“Continued disruptions would possible solely additional the unfavourable sentiment that’s growing about our college students and faculty district due to the movies which can be going viral nationally,” he mentioned.
Negative sentiment? Perhaps Mr. Wright isn’t acquainted with wi-fi however the web has very constructive sentiments about Chad Michael Watts getting his a** whooped by kids.
Newsflash for Donald Trump supporters who search to confront, intimidate, and assault kids whereas they’re protesting injustice: that pink hat isn’t a helmet.