Kennesaw State pays former cheerleader Tommia Dean $145K to settle anthem lawsuit

ESPN ^ | 12/5/19

[Meatspace]

KENNESAW, Ga. -- Kennesaw State University's decision to remove its cheerleaders from the field after they protested police brutality during the national anthem has cost Georgia taxpayers $145,000 in a legal settlement.

Former KSU cheerleader Tommia Dean settled her lawsuit and will get $93,000 of the award, with the rest going to her attorneys, The Marietta Daily Journal reported after obtaining the settlement through an Open Records Act request.

[cherry]

yes....disband the cheerleaders and make it a university standard that certain behaviors are to be followed when wearing the uniform of the university....

[Responsibility2nd]

Kennesaw State University should immediately disband its cheerleading squad.

If doing the right thing gets you sued - then eliminate the very thing that caused the problem.

[Regulator]

So why are they here?

Can always move to Nigeria.

No one holding on to them.

As for Kenesaw State, if the sports program is just supposed to be an anti-American political protest, just cancel it.

They ain’t doin sports nohow, and it’s not an entitlement.

[Responsibility2nd]

Holy Crap!

Did you increase the width of that picture? Or are them gals that wide?

[libertylover]

The school responded by ordering the cheerleaders to stay out of view before several subsequent games began. They were allowed back onto the field during the anthem when the University System of Georgia determined their protests were protected by the U.S. Constitution.

They should have just dismissed them from the squad. Certainly they have a 1st Amendment right to do so, but the school (should) has the right to expect respectful behavior.

[pnz1]

So Tommia was the only cheerleader to get paid?

[redshawk]

Do it now. Hell just cancel all sports programs. Screw these snowflakes.

[redshawk]

Just saw that. Just sad.

[Menehune56]

[Magnum44]

I will post my pic of Imus and just not say anything else...

[stylin19a]

if they took the knee to pray?

[Pollster1]

I hope that Tommia Dean will receive what she deserves, both from this court award and from life. Anyone who openly disrespects our flag, our anthem, our military, our country, and our ancestors should not be paid for her act of evil.