Posted on 08/28/2018 6:28:30 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A Union Mine High School student is facing battery charges after an altercation in her classroom over a Donald Trump Make America Great Again campaign hat.
The teacher is seen trying to subdue fired-up 17-year-old senior Jo-Ann Butler, after she became enraged at a classmate for wearing the Make America Great Again hat. She grabbed the hat off his head.
Thats a racist and hateful symbol, Butler said.
She is now facing two counts of battery, one against her classmate and one against her teacher who deputies say she slapped, as he escorted her from the room.
Butler says she made the scene to express her political feelings.
Maybe just wake people up in some type of way, because its not cool the environment our classroom is in, Butler said.
Her father says he does not approve of the way she behaved in class.
Wasnt handled the way Id like it, Chis Butler said.
Now hes faced with the legal impact of his daughters now alleged criminal act. All centered around the political divide across the country.
I dont agree with grabbing someones hat and verbally talking to them in that way, Chris Butler said. But as far as the issue being brought up, maybe this is something that needs to be brought up.
The El Dorado Union High School Districts clothing policy does allow students to wear political symbols.
A statement released by the district reads:
student and staff safety is our highest priority and the UMHS administration will continue to cooperate with the El Dorado County Sheriffs Office as the incident is being investigated.
Besides her arrest, Jo-Ann Butler has been suspended from school for a week. The El Dorado County District Attorney will likely decide later this week whether she will be formally charged.
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Roseville is beautiful and that frickin mall is Yuge!
You had to have either been raised in the South, or you had a relative in an influential position that was capable of such "diplomatic" manner of stating that someone, bless their hearts, was uglier than a mud fence.
Sounds like my sainted G-Mother, born and raised in rural NE Georgia.
She could tell a carpet-bagger to go to hell and have them looking forward to the trip.
Good one.
And yes, she is bitter and has little self-regard because of her...shall we say: "unfortunate" looks.
I've know a many of them.
Sue the cr@p out of her!!
Gotta go where it hurts em’. In the pocketbook!!
Hope her 18th birthday comes before her court date so dad can tell her to foot the bill herself.
Fine the LIB loser as a “political statement”...or better yet...put the cretin in prison.
Wow. “Unfortunate” actually elevates the reality. Yikes. She actually gets some sympathy from me. That must be rough! It is no wonder she is a bitter and hateful person.
Wow, you stepped into it automatically thinking a boy would take her. What if she wants a girl to take her? Or a penguin or elm tree or beetle or a grain of sand?
We’ve been told America was never great.
Well then, I suppose we can claim the court is simply making a political statement too.
No, actually what she did was a crime.
The other person had a first amendment right to wear the hat.
She looks like a young Helen Thomas and acts like her too. Poor thing. She’s doomed to a life of hate and anger. Sadly, with her looks, she will be very lucky to ever have a love life even if gay.
She and dad put herself out there for public review. Another camera Hogg.
What political statement did she make by slapping the teacher?
you be arrested for taunting and ‘asking for it’ ..
Bad conduct isn’t justified by labeling it a “Political Statement”.
Mao Tse-Tung’s “Great Leap Forward” was a political statement.
He ended up killing 45 million people.
The big question is what else does she become enraged over? Grabbing a hat is one thing but slapping a teacher is something else. She looked out of control in that video. What’s she like at home when she doesn’t get her way? Dad looks beat down.
Here’s the thing about rights: with them come responsibilities. So you CAN exercise your right to free speech...but if you slander someone in the process, there may very well be consequences that you won’t enjoy. In this case, this stupid teenager had the right to think what she wanted about a MAGA hat, and even to tell everyone what she thought, but she crossed the line when she took the hat, and again when she hit the teacher. Now she (and her family, since she’s a minor) will have to deal with the consequences.
I hope that those consequences are SEVERE - because I am sick and tired of hearing about the rageboys and ragegirls assaulting people who simply disagree with them.
She has a “Witch Hazel” vibe. Poor thing.
Yeah. So was Lee Harvey Oswald.
That is the kindest thing you could have said about that subject.
Taking this to the next level will be next. Remember that they often claim it's good to "punch Nazis."
So why not kill Nazis?
If MAGA hat wearers are racists, then that's not really a far step from National Socialist Workers Party members, no?
So, the Left will explain, killing Nazi-Racists is even better than punching...
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind my Lefty fellows...
Conservatives aren't Nazis nor Racist. AND, we will protect ourselves from your madness.
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