Posted on 09/24/2026 7:56:06 AM PDT by dennisw
Innocent Florida father is under attack by left-wing activists and local agitators after stepping in to defend his son from a violent bully
Despite law enforcement confirming that the father acted completely within the law to protect himself and his child, outraged activists, including local branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), are demanding that the father be locked up for assault with a deadly weapon.
According to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, the dispute began Thursday, September 17, on a Martin County school bus headed toward South Fork High School, WPBF reported.
A 16-year-old boy boarded with a pizza. A 14-year-old got on after him, demanded a piece, threatened him, and then smacked him in the head when the older boy would not hand it over.
The 16-year-old did what parents tell their kids to do. He went home and told his father.
That afternoon, the father went to the bus stop and spoke with the driver. She said she would try to handle it.
Friday morning, the father drove his son to the stop himself. The 14-year-old was already on the bus. As the boy boarded, the father again spoke with the driver, and the 14-year-old got off the bus to confront a grown man.
Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek made it clear during a press briefing that the father committed no crime and acted entirely within his constitutional rights under Florida law, according to WPFB.
“To recap it, the individual with the gun was the victim in this case,” Budensiek said. “He just wants to be left alone. He wants his son to be left alone.”
“You are allowed to stand your ground whether the person coming after you is 16 or 24 or 34… He’s legally allowed to stand his ground.”
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Those teens and yoofs can be beefy and tall at a young age. They are adult size with a toddlers brain. Putting on beaucoup flab and gristle from their diet of flaming Doritos, grape soda and weed.
We black we bully and sometimes get shot
Change and decay in all about I see...
Content of character ALERT!
Judging from the looks of those two knuckledraggers, this great Florida Dad more than likely saved his son from being cut to pieces or executed by a bullet to the back of the head. I don’t think “Murderers Lives Matter” is a good logo for the NAACP.
Florida law I beleive allows “brandishing a weapon” when undefthe protection of stand your ground law. Where was the assault?
Like the two "teens" had options to not approach a father trying to protect his son from their feral, animalistic behavior.
Tell you what, Pam, if you really love your poor, put upon nephew, you'll get down on your knees tonight and thank God that he gave that father the control to not just shoot both of them dead where they stood. That he didn't kill them for their stupid option they chose to do.
Then get up off your knees, slap the dipsticks multiple times in the head as I've seen angry black women do in the Madea movies and tell them to "Ack right!".
Oh, that’s right, the thugs assaulted the innocent kid!
NAACP: “While the father may have been cleared by the po-lice in doing what he did, he was clearly trying to lynch the 14-year-old tyke and to put Black people back in chains. The only appropriate response should be reparations immediately for all descendants of slaves.”
Avoid them at all costs. Even the “Revrund” says he avoids yutes at on the street.
But, but, but . . . every movie and television show addressing race relations has taught us that it is the Whites who bully the Blacks in school.
They are LBJs feral offspring. 3 or 4 generations of disfunction of the welfare state and this is what you get.
They are LBJs feral offspring. 3 or 4 generations of disfunction of the welfare state and this is what you get.
If the NAACP actually wanted to advance black people, they’d congratulate the father and denounce the thugs.
America is becoming (has become?) South Africa. “They” are taking over; we will be annihilated.
RE” Avoid them at all costs. Even the “Revrund” says he avoids yutes at on the street.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
—Rev. Jesse Jackson
Let us hope he wins.
I’m surprised this “colored people” group is still around; it’s an anachronism and ill-equipped with today’s wilding tribes.
Its hard to tell for sure, but in the video it looks like the father and victim son could be black as well as the bullies. If that is the case your comment is doubly correct.
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