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Brawl erupts at Virginia high school graduation as spectator attacks student walking to get their diploma
nypost.com ^ | May 29, 2026 | Richard Pollina

Posted on 05/29/2026 5:53:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN

A Virginia high school graduation descended into chaos when a spectator rushed the stage and attacked a student who was walking to receive his diploma.

Evan J. Williams Jr., 20, was arrested Thursday and charged with disorderly conduct and damage to private property in connection with the brawl that broke out during John Marshall High School’s graduation ceremony at Virginia Commonwealth University, according to police.

A 12-second viral video of the violence posted on Facebook shows the moment several attendees began to fight on the students’ special day in front of shocked family members just before 11 a.m. Wednesday at the school’s Siegel Center.

At least four university police officers are seen rushing toward the front of the stage to break up the melee, as other audience members jump in to join the fracas or scramble to help stop it.

Several more altercations broke out outside the Siegel Center as police worked to break up the initial fight and clear the venue.

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KEYWORDS: graduation; highschool; racism; virginia

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To: Leaning Right

“principals were evaluated on reducing suspensions. They would get bonuses for doing that”

Good grief what a wrong headed notion....that’s just asking for trouble. SMH


41 posted on 05/29/2026 6:42:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leavebussed )
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To: BigFreakinToad

The kids who don’t care if they get suspended hold everyone else hostage.
We had a case of an autistic girl who was being bullied by a Special Ed student. The school denied it until a student posted a video to Instagram. The school spent all their resources trying to find who released the video. Being Appalachia, all people involved were white.
We have little thugs playing the “kick the door in” game. Someone finally got a video of them. All white. There are 1,800 people in this town. Everyone knows the thugs. Children of single moms in the trailer park.


42 posted on 05/29/2026 6:45:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Drew68
The implementation of forced desegregation (bussing) in schools - injecting that "bottom quintile" into every academic space - was the beginning of the end of public schooling, and much private schooling as well.

It dumbed down every expectation for academic excellence across the board. In fact, you were not ALLOWED to excel at the risk of highlighting the disparity.

43 posted on 05/29/2026 6:46:56 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Leaning Right

White people with money in eastern NC send their kids to private schools or academies.


44 posted on 05/29/2026 6:47:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: V_TWIN

I avoid them in public and they get angry at me. Panhandlers frequently ask me for money where they have no business asking for money. I have hardened myself against them and public opinion on my hardness. I don’t care. Just keep me, my loved ones, and my property as far away from “them” as possible.


45 posted on 05/29/2026 6:49:02 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Biblebelter

“Amazing no one broke out a nine with an extended clip.”

Magazine! It’s a magazine! /s


46 posted on 05/29/2026 6:55:51 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Drew68

Bookmark.


47 posted on 05/29/2026 7:02:07 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: AppyPappy

Ross: “That chair has a family, damnit!”


48 posted on 05/29/2026 7:03:18 AM PDT by Longdriver69
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To: V_TWIN

“Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!...”


49 posted on 05/29/2026 7:04:35 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Sirius Lee

Good one.


50 posted on 05/29/2026 7:07:28 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: V_TWIN

consider it progress it wasn’t a mass shooting.


51 posted on 05/29/2026 7:12:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Drew68

Bottom Quintile = urban democrats


52 posted on 05/29/2026 7:16:45 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: V_TWIN

My BIL was one of the ones bussed TO a black school, which was about 10% white after the busing. He and his brother didn’t eat or drink until they got home because “it was as much as your life was worth to enter a bathroom”! He also said a white guy picking up a basketball while at school would have put the guy in a hospital. Or morgue.


53 posted on 05/29/2026 7:22:34 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: albie
I’m familiar with John Marshall HS. 90+% black

I'm guessing that the Siegel Center wasn't named recently, then.

54 posted on 05/29/2026 7:26:13 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Mr Rogers

This was my Junior High School experience exactly. I was bussed 1.5 hours one way to an inner city, formerly all-black school. 1973-74, deep south industrial city. The building was a converted hosiery mill. None of the staff wanted to be there, and little was done to keep order. My history “teacher” was functionally illiterate. It was an exceptionally dangerous environment.

I learned then and there what the reality vs. the feel-good blather about diversity is.


55 posted on 05/29/2026 7:42:38 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: Drew68

So true. I think that speaks for allowing islam in a nation too. Once they get hold of that quintile, you deal with their bs.


56 posted on 05/29/2026 7:53:47 AM PDT by boycott
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To: astounded

In Richmond, they’re entering in the 3rd quintile.

White: ~41.5%
Black or African American: ~40.5%
Hispanic or Latino: ~10.5%
Multiracial: ~4.5%
Asian: ~2%


57 posted on 05/29/2026 7:56:55 AM PDT by boycott
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To: V_TWIN; Fury

Has Furry risen for the Defense?


58 posted on 05/29/2026 7:57:31 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Here I am; send me!)
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To: V_TWIN

It was those Amish again?


59 posted on 05/29/2026 7:58:08 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: V_TWIN
Whole lotta melanin goin’ on.


60 posted on 05/29/2026 8:00:11 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Here I am; send me!)
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