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Student Who Took Classmate’s MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement
CBS 13 Sacramento ^ | August 27, 2018 | Steve Large

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.

“That’s 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 it’s not cool the environment our classroom is in,” Butler said.

Her father says he does not approve of the way she behaved in class.

“Wasn’t handled the way I’d like it,” Chis Butler said.

Now he’s faced with the legal impact of his daughter’s now alleged criminal act. All centered around the political divide across the country.

“I don’t agree with grabbing someone’s 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 District’s 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 Sheriff’s 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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To: SJSAMPLE

“You just KNEW she’s be some fugly bull, and she didn’t disappoint.”


I am offended by her ugliness. I am entitled to make a “political statement” by slapping her in the face.


81 posted on 08/28/2018 8:26:14 AM PDT by miniTAX
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To: Hojczyk

Always with the racist charge. Ok bimbo, name ONE!
You can’t? I didn’t think so.


82 posted on 08/28/2018 8:30:03 AM PDT by mistfree (It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
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To: Hojczyk

So making America great again is racist and hateful?
This young lady has a really tough life ahead of her!


83 posted on 08/28/2018 8:31:03 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Ben Ficklin
A lot of people see the phrase as a symbol of White Nationalism and taking the country back away from the Blacks, Mexicans, Queers, feminists, etc.

A lot of people have a psychological need to pretend that this is true, because it makes them the Paladins fighting for something meaningful. That doesn't make it true.

The Golden Age of America that some want to recreate, never really existed, and happened only because the rest of the world was destroyed by WW2.

Yeah, ummm, I hate (not really) to interrupt your anti-American screed again, but people have been flocking here for over centuries... long before WW2, and even moreso since. They so believe in America's greatness that they abandon their home country and culture to come here. Odd that you do not see what they see. Hmm.

So now we have to undo the civil Rights, human rights, voting rights, etc from the 60s and repeal all the environmental and land management policies from the 70s.

Easily the stupidest FR comment this month (which is saying a lot). You set up the nonsense straw man argument that America was only Golden-with-an-asterisk in a brief period, and that we must recreate everything about that short period to try to be Great again. That's going Full Retard. Never go Full Retard.

Oh, and we've repealed a ton of top EPA regulations, and accelerated our economic growth, and CO2 emissions have DROPPED in 2017. Nice try, though. Sadly for you, facts do not care about your feelings.

84 posted on 08/28/2018 8:36:31 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Hojczyk

“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.”

How ya like that statement, commie serf?


85 posted on 08/28/2018 8:37:19 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Hojczyk

My question is who is programming this girl to think that any person that supports Trump is a racist and a hater. She apparently feels herself to be morally and spiritually superior to those around her. Perhaps her father should have taught her about boundaries. Believe it or not, this school is in a red county, and there are a lot of people who like Trump here. She needs to look within and deal with her own darkness before projecting it on others.


86 posted on 08/28/2018 8:57:06 AM PDT by awaken2spirit (When one fornicates with ignorance, the result of that union is chaos.)
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To: Hojczyk

“Let’s bash a fash, I’m always right when I call someone a fascist, so I can literally assault anyone I want because I’m fighting evil.”

The one thing God cannot forgive is committing evil in his name, doing bad in the name of good.

But when you have good moral cover - fighting evil, fighting oppression - you feel good while thinking you’re doing good.


87 posted on 08/28/2018 9:23:37 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Hojczyk

I guess the School District will change their Dress Code after this.


88 posted on 08/28/2018 9:37:14 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: House Atreides; Teacher317

The two main things that came out of the Golden Age was strong unions and employer based healthcare.


89 posted on 08/28/2018 9:48:55 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I don’t know why no one has made shirt, hoodies, pants, track suits, etc with MAGA yet.. now is the perfect opportunity!


90 posted on 08/28/2018 9:55:55 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Hojczyk

Slapping the crap out of the little monster would be a valid political statement, too.

L


91 posted on 08/28/2018 9:57:16 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Teacher317; Ben Ficklin

Ben Ficklin is CLEARLY a leftist troll based upon his/her post history — IMHO, of course.


92 posted on 08/28/2018 9:58:41 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: House Atreides
Left and right are relative, and relative to an extremist like you, I am on the left.

But I have been a republican since the 60s and was never influenced by the Minutemen, the Tea Party, or Trump

93 posted on 08/28/2018 10:07:02 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Hojczyk

What would be her opinion be if somebody snatched her pussy hat off of her butt ugly head then assaulted her favorite leftist moonbat teacher afterwards?

don’t answer i already know.
she would be on CNN and MSLSD for the next 3 days straight.


94 posted on 08/28/2018 10:26:25 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: All

Should have open hand slapped her to the ground.


95 posted on 08/28/2018 10:35:54 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Hojczyk

Dateless!


96 posted on 08/28/2018 10:51:16 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levinda)
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To: Hojczyk

Note to the Resist thugs on the left: Assault, battery, and theft are not “political statements”, no matter what your leaders proclaim. They are crimes and will be prosecuted in decent jurisdictions. They may even be punished immediately by Smith, Wesson, or Ruger.


97 posted on 08/28/2018 10:57:46 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Hojczyk

Punching the little brat in the face is making a political statement, so I guess it should be allowed.


98 posted on 08/28/2018 10:58:27 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
Poor young lady suffers from "unfortunate" looks.

That may explain why some antifa women wear masks over their faces. Halloween is every day for this misfit witch.

99 posted on 08/28/2018 11:14:02 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Pollster1

or my size 10 Doc Martins!


100 posted on 08/28/2018 11:15:45 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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