Mock assassination of Trump stirs controversy at San Antonio school

Houston Chronicle ^ | 11-17-2016 | Silvia Foster-Frau

[Snickering Hound]

A skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump by two 10th-grade students at Marshall High School provoked anger and dismay from the parents of a student who watched it unfold last week.

Harold and Melinda Bean said that in the skit, entitled “The Assassination of Donald Trump,” one of the boys made a gunfire sound effect with his cell phone as the other boy, portraying Trump, fell to the ground in mock death.

“I don’t understand how the teacher can repeat an apology and be right there back at work on Monday morning,” he said. “Though we understand she is apologetic, it does not make the situation right.”

Perez said campus officials investigated the incident and found that the teacher didn’t condone it and stopped the skit. But Harold Bean questioned why she allowed it to start once she heard the title.

“Appropriate action” was taken to reprimand both boys and their teacher, said Northside ISD spokesman Barry Perez. The parents, however, believe more should have been done, including suspending the two students.

“Honestly I have run out of words to describe how angry I am and how shocked I am that they’re still in school today,” Melinda Bean said.

Younger children using their hands to simulate guns on the playground have been suspended, she said, and this was far worse.

The teacher apologized Monday, Harold Bean said, but it wasn’t enough.

[Busko]

They did this crap with Bush and even had cartoon about him. If they did this with Obama it would had been all racism and hate against a black man!!!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

If they had done this with Obama it would have been all over the MSM alphabets.

[Steve_Seattle]

Using the same standard the media apply to Trump - “if you don’t denounce it, you support it” - they clearly support the assassination of Trump. They hate him, and it would sell air time, sell newspapers, and get lots of clicks on websites.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Could you imagine if this was done about the current potus? What the outrage from the left would be?"

I live in the Seattle suburbs, and I remember two things from the Bush II years: (1) a guy in a booth at a city-sponsored event selling t-shirts depicting Bush being shot in the head; and (2) a float in a local parade carrying effigies of Bush and Cheney, at which people were invited to throw rotten fruit and vegetables provided by the float's sponsors.

To my knowledge, neither of these incidents generated any local media criticism, and I looked for it.

[bgill]

When Texas secedes, we need to not only wall off uber lib Austin but illegals infested San Antonio, too.

[bgill]

Call ICE. The school is 67% Hispanic. This being San Antonio, it’s a guarantee a good percent are illegal.

[Steve_Seattle]

The school said that "appropriate action" was taken, but the reaction of the offended parents suggests that the "appropriate action" did not include suspension.

Meanwhile, we've seen kids suspended for far less serious - even trivial - incidents involving the mention, use, or depiction of a "gun," including finger guns, hand-drawn guns, cookie guns, and plastic toy guns an inch long, typically when no actual harm was intended or even possible. Double standard?

[Bob434]

Well at least the student didn’t chew his poptart into an “L” shape that vaguely resembled a gun- That would have been totally inappropriate /s

[blackbetty59]

Imagine if students were doing mock assassinations of Obama. How well do you think that would go over?