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Virginia high school track star attacked by baton-wielding opponent during state title race
https://nypost.com ^ | March 9, 2025 | Nicholas McEntyre

Posted on 03/09/2025 6:45:36 AM PDT by Enterprise

A Virginia high school sprinter suffered a concussion and potential skull fracture when her competitor smashed her in the back of her head with a relay baton during their race.

Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker was the second leg runner for the 4×200 meter relay at the VHSL Class 3 State Indoor Championships at Liberty University on Friday.

Tucker – who had earned silver in the girl’s 55m dash earlier in the meet – was attempting to cut into lane one during a battle for second place in the front pack as she was rounding turn four.

A Virginia high school sprinter suffered a concussion and potential skull fracture when her competitor smashed her in the back of her head with a relay baton during their race.

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TOPICS: Education; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: brookvillehigh; donate2freerepublic; feral; icnorcom; kaelentucker; libertyuniversity; lynchburg; newyorkpost; nicholasmcentyre; virginia
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To: V_TWIN

> Not in my town....or state either for that matter. <

That’s a pleasant surprise. In my long teaching career, I’ve seen a few students get arrested. But the consequences are always zero.

One student - I’ll call him David - was arrested for beating the crap out of a fellow teacher. The teacher’s sin? She asked David why he came to class late that day.

David was arrested. And he was suspended from school. So you can imagine my surprise when - two weeks later - I saw David back in school.

As to the teacher David attacked, she took an early retirement.


21 posted on 03/09/2025 7:23:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Leaning Right

And many of the students/children so indulged are now in positions of great power... with predictable results. The proper raising of children, including immediate and memorable punishment for unacceptable behavior, is essential to a stable, advanced civilization. Neglected children lead to a crumbling society.


22 posted on 03/09/2025 7:26:24 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Enterprise

Tonya harding come out of retirement?


23 posted on 03/09/2025 7:28:58 AM PDT by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Enterprise

Time to hold people responsible for their actions. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law and do so consistently for a couple of years and maybe they will start to reign in their impulses.


24 posted on 03/09/2025 7:34:44 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Enterprise

Time to hold people responsible for their actions. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law and do so consistently for a couple of years and maybe they will start to reign in their impulses.


25 posted on 03/09/2025 7:37:53 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Leaning Right

In my daughter’s high school two girls got into it. The next day their mother’s showed up and started ripping out each other’s hair weaves and finger nails. The police were called no charges filed. Obama’s America.


26 posted on 03/09/2025 7:43:13 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Enterprise

Looks like they’re wearing the same uniform and on the same team even.


27 posted on 03/09/2025 7:50:03 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Enterprise

Poor impulse control leading to immediate violence. In certain cultures, parents pass it on to their kids.

Many kids are quite violent by nature, kicking, hitting, throwing objects at others. Part of life. Parents need to teach empathy, backed up by pain if necessary: A hard wack on the butt, followed by, “How does it feel? Well, the kid you hit hurts, too. That’s how you made him feel. Remember that! And don’t do it again!”

Certain cultures don’t teach that, because the parents are just as bad. Generations of poor impulse control and violence.

Btw, Grok says in a hich school meet, it was likely an aluminum baton, and that a strong hit could kill the person.

Says it could cause concussion and possibly skull fracture.

Duh.

I think hard blows to the back of the head should ALWAYS require filing a charge of attempted murder. Including the “Knockout Game,” played by certain cultures.

Head on a swivel, and always carry.


28 posted on 03/09/2025 7:52:10 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (MAGA!!!!)
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To: Leaning Right
There will now be calls to make race batons out of cardboard or some such thing. Blame the object, not the person.

All we need are "sensible" baton laws!

Regards,

29 posted on 03/09/2025 7:53:32 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Enterprise

Lemee guess.


30 posted on 03/09/2025 8:01:46 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Larry Lucido

Are you talking about Shanika Serdahl?


31 posted on 03/09/2025 8:03:23 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Socon-Econ

For many, it’s the only way to rise above and out of the ‘hood.

Please speculate at the presuppositions required for this
sentence to be reasonable.


32 posted on 03/09/2025 8:08:50 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration; The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Leaning Right
But why wasn’t the student immediately arrested for assault?

I think we both know the answer to that question.

33 posted on 03/09/2025 8:38:00 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Enterprise

No need to look.


34 posted on 03/09/2025 8:51:32 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Enterprise

Hood rats gotta hood rat.


35 posted on 03/09/2025 10:05:40 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Enterprise

When you watch the video you can clearly see the young lady who was attacked and her parents are not hood rats. They may even be MAGA.


36 posted on 03/09/2025 10:35:50 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Enterprise

Friends of Obama


37 posted on 03/09/2025 12:00:08 PM PDT by stockpirate (A group of baboons is referred to as a "Congress" of baboons.)
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To: Enterprise

Until these kids in school stop being protected and have to face the consequences of their ADULT actions, nothing is going to change.

They need to be arrested and charged and prosecuted for assault with intent to whatever.

Just like the thefts. They do it because they can get away with and and they know it.


38 posted on 03/09/2025 12:04:12 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Enterprise

What’s her NAME AND PICTURE?


39 posted on 03/09/2025 2:19:15 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

To my knowledge, the name and picture of the suspect has not been released. She needs to be tried as an adult. And if they do this, that information will be released.


40 posted on 03/09/2025 9:40:49 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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