Posted on 05/13/2024 10:26:31 AM PDT by Morgana
Howard University was forced to cancel a graduation ceremony after furious relatives began banging on doors and smashing windows after the auditorium hit capacity.
The graduation ceremony for the historically black college's College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences was shut down before the keynote address after space ran out at the Cramton Auditorium in Washington DC.
Relatives of some of the graduates were seen on video chanting 'Let us in' as they pounded on the doors as the ceremony began on Thursday.
Images showed a shattered glass door as the angry relatives tried to push their way past security.
At least one person was hurt in the commotion, according to DC officials. Various reports said the injured person was a student who was treated for a cut.
Dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Gina Brown made announcement claiming the fire department had shut the ceremony down.
'Because of the size of the room and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the fire department is now here to shut us down,' she said.
However, the DC fire department has denied they shut down the graduation.
The department said: 'D.C. Fire and EMS did not shut down tonight’s event... At 6:42 p.m., we responded to the Cramton Auditorium for a medical local at the request of campus police.
'The patient was evaluated and refused transport, and D.C. Fire and EMS departed.'
Howard later said in their own statement that someone was removed from the building before the ceremony and they came back and broke a window.
The school's statement read: 'This incident led to a disturbance among guests outside of the facility, resulting in a disruption of the program.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A “mostly peaceful” graduation.
Babies are born selfish, demanding, and irrational. If they are ever to progress beyond that state, they must be taught to do so.
Some people are brought up right and trained to do better.
Some people are not brought up at all.
and then ...
Some people are brought up wrong and trained to do worse.
Right, Seinfeld wasn’t the reason at Howard. They were just protesters. The rest was accurate. The school lied about the fire dept closing down the graduation and people outside were protesters, not family members.
Most graduation ceremonies are held in the football stadiums.
They don’t have one or was it a bad weather day?................
Either:
The University failed to do a headcount and hand out only enough tickets for the available seating, such as two per graduate; or
They did issue only enought tickets, but failed to check tickets at the door; so that...
The ones who arrived early in defiance of cultural stereotypes just marched on in with excessive numbers of guests and took all the seats they wanted regardless of not having a ticket.
The latecomers reverted to type instead of asking school officials for a remediatory announcement, such as ”any guests more than two per graduate, please report to the gym, where the graduation will be telecast for you,” or, ”please step into the lobby and sign up to receive a DVD of the graduation by mail...”
But that would have required planning ahead.
They went tribal. Again
I am not a dude.
Kindly refrain from using the F-bomb on FR.
Day lurned all dat nollidge and want dat degwee dat dere kid lurnt in skool.
The J6’ers went to prison for less than this.
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