Student arrested for stealing 'Make America Great Again' hat, slapping teacher

[Texacon]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211066908

Wed Aug 29, 2018, 09:28 AM
Star Member left-of-center2012 (12,503 posts)


Student arrested for stealing 'Make America Great Again' hat, slapping teacher

A California teen is facing battery charges after a classroom confrontation over a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” campaign hat. The sheriff’s office told KCRA one Union Mine High School student berated another student for wearing the hat with the president’s campaign slogan, grabbed it and threw it on the ground. “That’s a racist and hateful symbol,” the teen, identified as 17-year-old senior Jo-Ann Butler, said in cellphone footage of the incident.

A teacher asked Butler to leave the classroom, but the teen returned and removed the other student's hat for a second time. When a teacher tried to get between them, deputies said Butler slapped the teacher’s arm. She was taken to the El Dorado County Juvenile Hall and has been suspended from school for a week.

Her father said he does not approve of the way she behaved in class. “I don’t agree with grabbing someone’s hat and verbally talking to them in that way,” Chris Butler said. “But as far as the issue being brought up, maybe this is something that needs to be brought up.”

Brooke Peterson said her boyfriend was the one wearing the hat. "If you truly believe in something you have every right to express it in every way if you’re really passionate about it," Peterson said. Other students felt that school was not the place to flaunt political ideology. "I have my own views but I don’t tell people because of the problems it causes these days," said student Taylor Pearson.

Now I didn't bring this over for the OP, but rather a little back and forth down below.

Response to left-of-center2012 (Original post)Wed Aug 29, 2018, 09:58 AM
Star Member jberryhill (52,386 posts)

7. Why are they allowing students to wear hats indoors?

Is that normal?

Or have MAGA hats reached the level of religious headgear like yarmulkes, scarves and colanders?

Response to jberryhill (Reply #7)Wed Aug 29, 2018, 10:00 AM
Watchfoxheadexplodes (1,269 posts)

8. Deep south here

I don't think I've ever not seen at least 5 or 6 young men wearing hats in the hallways.

Response to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Reply #8)Wed Aug 29, 2018, 10:08 AM
Star Member jberryhill (52,386 posts)

10. Seriously?


Is this relatively new, or were they always allowed to wear hats indoors?

Response to jberryhill (Reply #10)Wed Aug 29, 2018, 10:13 AM
Watchfoxheadexplodes (1,269 posts)

12. When I was in high school rule was

Not in class but okay in building.

Quick text to my daughter confirmed one in class now backward baseball cap on.

And there you have it folks.  DU is SO important this proud papa was willing to interrupt the education of his daughter to ask if anyone was wearing a hat in school today.  Then they bitch because kids are using cell phones in class, but when threatened to take them away it was all about, what if there is an emergency, like a shooting!  Well, here's the emergency ... "Hey, can you tell me if anyone in your class is wearing a hat in class?!  I MUST KNOW!!!"

Idiots.

KC

[SVPete]

Geez, the report from the local (Sacto area) CBS outlet, Channel 13, specifically stated that the hat with a political message was within the school's dress code. What DUpipo are trying to dodge is that, while the school dress code assumes students have the minimal maturity to refrain from tantrums and physical attacks on a message different from what they believe, this female trump-Hater clearly does not (and her male parent seems little better).

[USA4ME]

The words "Beaten with an ugly stick" immediately comes to mind.

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[Texacon]

The words "Beaten with an ugly stick" immediately comes to mind.

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Definitely looks like someone who would fit in over at the DUmp. 

Hopefully she will get the therapy she obviously needs.

KC

[BlueStateSaint]

I think Austin Powers put it best . . .

“That’s a man, baby!”

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

For physically striking a teacher, she should count her blessings that she didn't get expelled.

I think Austin Powers put it best . . .

“That’s a man, baby!”

Or, as Austin then went on to say, "Well, if that IS a woman, it does look like she was beaten with an ugly stick!"

[SVPete]

Meh, she's a solid 3 (not that I was better than a 6 or 7. She's probably a -7 on the inside, and college should finish her off as a solid -9 or even -10. In 10 or 20 years she'll be lamenting on DU (or its equivalent) how screwed up her life is.

[thundley4]

Her father said he does not approve of the way she behaved in class. “I don’t agree with grabbing someone’s hat and verbally talking to them in that way,” Chris Butler said. “But as far as the issue being brought up, maybe this is something that needs to be brought up.”

That violent little bitch learned it at home from her violent leftist parents.

[Skul]

Stevenumbèrs would do it.

[Tess Anderson]

well, she's certainly no great beauty in any sense:



bet she trims her own bangs but she's not that bad for the DUmp.

[SVPete]

...


bet she trims her own bangs ...

I dunno, Tess. Her bangs seem to follow the curve of her eyebrows.

[landofconfusion80]

To be fair, I'd think anyone would justly be angry with the world if they were born looking that way.

[BlueStateSaint]

Meh, she's a solid 3 (not that I was better than a 6 or 7. She's probably a -7 on the inside, and college should finish her off as a solid -9 or even -10. In 10 or 20 years she'll be lamenting on DU (or its equivalent) how screwed up her life is.

It'll be lamenting that it can't get laid.

[SVPete]

It'll be lamenting that it can't get laid.

Or all the jerks who did her.