The man ran onto the stage just after his daughter had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands.

The father of a Baraboo High School graduate forcibly pulled the district superintendent away from his daughter as she crossed the stage to receive a congratulatory handshake during the school’s graduation ceremony Friday.

The man, who is not being named to protect his daughter’s identity, ran onto the stage just after the girl had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands.

Before she could get to district Superintendent Rainey Briggs, the man, wearing a white polo shirt and baseball cap, grabbed Briggs by his right arm and pushed him away.

“That’s my daughter,” the man can be heard saying in video of the ceremony by TV43 Baraboo.

Briggs can be heard telling the man, “You better get up off me man. Get away from me bro” as staff working the graduation and three Baraboo police officers including the school resource officer intervened. At one point, a voice can be heard saying, “I don’t want her touching him.”

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Found this while looking around …

    The anonymous donor has pledged additional funds to the district to combat discrimination in Baraboo schools since a photo of Baraboo students giving what appeared to be a Nazi salute in front of the Sauk County Courthouse surfaced in 2018, Vodak said.

    https://wiscnews.com/news/local/education/baraboo-school-president-recall/article_462a4f0e-1ed2-11ef-a8a0-87ddc019ec62.html#tracking-source=mp-in-article

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    His poor daughter’s day of achievement was marred by his stupid-ass behavior. Sucks to grow up under him. Hope she gets lots of therapy and outside support.

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      So the superintendent is the black guy in the video? That makes way more sense, I was thinking the complaints mentioned in the article were sexual or political or something along this lines and was pretty annoyed that there was no elaboration.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s actually missing from the entire article, an article which had the time to mention how there’s a group trying to have a school board member recalled (without telling us how big or small the group is, who their members are and what other organizations they’re connected to (e.g. Moms for Liberty)), list all of the group’s alleged grievances (without looking into whether any of them have any validity), and link to the group’s Facebook page (without discussing the prevalence of misinformation on those pages).

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Baraboo, Wisconsin.

    Superintendent Briggs is black, the man and his daughter are white.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      If I were to guess, the racist community that cheered when the racist students held up Nazi salutes in front of the courthouse were cheering that a racist dad didn’t want his daughter to touch the hand of the black superintendent.

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Followed the Facebook links. There’s a lot of infighting in this small school district - major teacher rollover a few years ago and, as it mentions, parents are trying to get rid of the superintendent and school board President. I prefer to think that this is about local school politics than jumping on the racism train. However, this is the school with the Nazi salute photo from a couple of years ago, so …