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Teen shot dead during high school football game in Bakersfield
New York Post ^ | August 22, 2026 | By Ross O'Keefe

Posted on 08/22/2026 9:31:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower

A 17-year-old was shot and killed during a high school football game in Bakersfield on Friday night, sending players and fans scrambling from the scene, authorities said.

The Bakersfield Police Department said they were called to the stadium a little after 8 p.m. for reports of shots fired at Independence High School during the team’s season opener.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: california

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Hey California how’d that mandatory ethnic studies curriculum working out?
1 posted on 08/22/2026 9:31:55 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Gangs again, and either them or illegals, again.


2 posted on 08/22/2026 9:34:03 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: artichokegrower

“Teen”!


3 posted on 08/22/2026 9:34:27 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When your Supreme Leader is easily whacked by Jews, reconsider how Akhbar your Allah is!)
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why did this headline make me think of tampon tim & his wife?


4 posted on 08/22/2026 9:37:59 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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From the article: “ The same night, another shooting was believed to have broken out at the campus of Los Angeles Southwest College at a football game between San Pedro High School and King/Drew Magnet High School.”


5 posted on 08/22/2026 9:49:54 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals. )
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Hey California how’d that mandatory ethnic studies curriculum working out?

In Sleeper, the Woody Allen character was revived in the future after being cryonically preserved into the next century. Assessing his missed life he said: "Back then I was in the black studies degree program in college. If I had finished I could have been black by now."

6 posted on 08/22/2026 9:52:30 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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It’s Bakersfield Dude, ethnic studies ain’t got nuthin to do with it. That place has been nothing but cows, cowshit, flies and gangbangers for decades.


7 posted on 08/22/2026 9:53:21 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: thinden

Is it because they call Tim Walz “The Coach”?


8 posted on 08/22/2026 9:53:23 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Them pesky firearms again. Allowing them into a high school football game is dumber taking a knife to a high school track meet. Lots of retardism going on at high school sporting events.


9 posted on 08/22/2026 10:02:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Socialism is the same clown show that gave us out of control global illegal immigration.)
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To: frank ballenger

Tampon Tim signed a treaty with the Somali gangs to prevent violence at the state fair

Seven alleged members of the “Muddy” and “The Ville” gangs agreed to legal stipulations to stay away from the 2026 Minnesota State Fair and a surrounding safety zone to prevent planned violence


10 posted on 08/22/2026 10:03:44 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Oh. It was “teens?”

I was worried it might have been Catholic nuns or possibly eskimos.


11 posted on 08/22/2026 10:06:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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Hey California how’d that mandatory ethnic studies curriculum working out?

Not to mention "No guns on campus" laws.

Liberals just don't get it.

12 posted on 08/22/2026 10:06:33 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: artichokegrower

Any bets on the shooter?


13 posted on 08/22/2026 10:07:56 AM PDT by econjack
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The shooter is in big trouble now.

California has a law against bringing firearms into schools.

14 posted on 08/22/2026 10:09:39 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: econjack

The Coulter Rule is in effect…..


15 posted on 08/22/2026 10:10:25 AM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yes

What mean sportsmanship?.


16 posted on 08/22/2026 10:13:19 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Friday Night Lights Gunfights
17 posted on 08/22/2026 10:17:16 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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The teen male victim remains unidentified, and there’s no suspect information at this time, police said.

17-Year-Old Levi Brown Killed in Shooting at Independence High School Football Game in Bakersfield

Looks like they had to use childhood photos of the victim. Probably the only ones they could find where he wasn't scowling, flashing gang signs, and smoking weed.


18 posted on 08/22/2026 10:27:34 AM PDT by Drew68
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Seven alleged members of the “Muddy” and “The Ville” gangs

There really is a gang called "Muddy"?

Communist Party member folksinger Pete Seeger had a song against LBJ's Vietnam escalation with "Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the Big Fool says to push on."

Muddy Waters got his name from his grandmother, Della Grant, when he was a child. She called him “Muddy” because he played along the banks of Deer Creek near his home on the Stovall plantation in Mississippi and came in covered with mud and had to wash and change before dinner. He was never a Communist and as the movie Cadillac Records (2008) showed, he urged black people to stay out of marches and protests and to obey police.

19 posted on 08/22/2026 10:28:14 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Hey, you don’t know me, but you don’t like me
Say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judged me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?


20 posted on 08/22/2026 10:29:34 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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