Tennessee college student arrested after wearing gorilla mask to Black Lives Matter protest

New York Daily News ^ | September 28, 2016 | Tobias Salinger

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A Tennessee man wore a gorilla mask, carried a rope and tried to hand out bananas at a college Black Lives Matter protest Wednesday, police said.

East Tennessee State University campus police arrested freshman student Tristan Rettke, who is white, on a charge of civil rights intimidation following the disruption, the Johnson City Press reported. University officials condemned his act and scheduled a community discussion.

A video published by the newspaper showed the man later identified as Rettke wearing overalls and also holding a burlap sack with a marijuana leaf and Confederate flag on it. He dangled a banana with the rope toward the dozen or so demonstrators in the video.

[DesertRhino]

lol....solid.

[dr_lew]

Maybe the guy should NOT hand out bananas, that is a bit in your face but if one just goes to the protests, in this garb, with a banana on a rope and the mask, that should not be in excess. But again, a lot of what BLM does is "in your face" as well. I don't know if the University sanctioned 3 days of protests or what.

God sees the truth, but waits - Tolstoy

( not even sure what that means, but hey. )

[Mark]

His death would be ruled a suicide.

[Darteaus94025]

It seems to me that what BLM does is “civil rights intimidation “. Why are they not arrested?

[NRx]

They are not nearly as common as the moonbats want people to believe. But yeah, there are a handful of honest to God bigots out there. It looks like they found one. Oh joy. We will be hearing about this forever.

[fuzzylogic]

Arrested for free speech....nothing more. Did he physically hurt someone? Did he put lives in danger?

Nope.

[zipper]

“civil rights intimidation”

Why, because he’s white?

What if he had been black? Asian? Mexican?

Isn’t there equal protection under the law?

[dsc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeOddejiGw

[BeadCounter]

It seems to me that what BLM does is “civil rights intimidation “. Why are they not arrested? --- I agree, I found this webpage, looks leftist (if I can post it) but shows one of the protesters holds up a sign: Meanwhile, another student was present holding a sign that said “black lives matter, all lives don’t.” http://howldb.com/p/free-speech-hate-speech-student-charged-for-dressing-up-as-gorilla-at-blm-protest-0busqv See the sign at the link, the sign actually say "Black Lives Matter ≠ All Lives Don't", I don't know what this even means but it comes across to me as being militant.

[tet68]

It’s been scary, and it’s getting scarier. I’m getting to the point of wondering, “What will be my moment, When will I break.” Perhaps melodramatic. Perhaps not.

I know how you feel. Who among us hasn’t wanted to
put on a gorilla mask and let slip the bananas of war.

[GraceG]

I honestly think he would have been better wearing a planet of the apes t shirt.

[Gene Eric]

These “hate crime” laws/policies are totally idiotic.

[guido911]

Need to figure out where this type of a charge will wind up on the slippery slope...

[BeadCounter]

My last post got garbled, sorry all. I think this guy was probably being a clown like someone said, maybe this was hazing. They or He was just trying to yank some chains but maybe he is a real racist type. Who knows. It’s a sort of thought crime in what they are prosecuting. Why isn’t Kaepernick prosecuted. That could be this guy’s point as well.

[Mr. Mojo]

holding a burlap sack with a marijuana leaf and Confederate flag on it.

I'd imagine that image caused some cognitive dissonance among the lib students.

[MortMan]

“Civil rights intimidation” as a charge? WTH?

[dr_lew]

Laugh’a while you can monkey boy!

[BeadCounter]

Per Daily Mail, here he is holding up a pen scrawled sign saying “Lives Matter”; so maybe his point is something like that.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/09/29/00/38E6006200000578-0-Tristan_Rettke_a_freshman_at_the_school_was_charged_with_civil_r-m-35_1475106347948.jpg

Maybe BLM is causing, as we all know, strife on the campus and society.

[tumblindice]

They have all ceased engaging in auto-erotic activity.

[wardaddy]

These sorts of arrests are right out of The Turner Diaries

I never thought I’d see such tactics by the state

Arrested for insulting the venerated negro basically

What about me?

I’m insulted by a barrage of crap all day