Black students at Todd Beamer High School (TBHS) in Federal Way, Washington, are crying racism after a black girl was arrested for hitting a policeman. A fight broke out between two students and a police officer assigned to the school tried to break up the fight by separating the two, when one of the girls punched him. He put the cuffs on her and led her off the campus. For this, black students and school staff, screamed racism. The school then called for a day of support for BLM. Students were told to wear black in support. Those that refused were called racists.
KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson interviewed a parent named Angela and this is what happened:
“The next thing we knew, our children were coming home telling us they needed to wear all black in support of the Black Lives Matter movement because of the incident,” Angela said, noting there was even an announcement on the school’s intercom about the demonstration. “I questioned my daughter, I said ‘I don’t understand how this is a race issue.’”
“It sounds like it was a child who was out of control, but somehow it turned into a race thing,” she said. “My daughter didn’t wear all black, she refused to do that. She didn’t believe this was a black or white issue, it was a disciplinary issue.”
“And if the kids were not wearing them, they were bullied and ridiculed and called ‘racists,’” Angela said. “She was told she was racist because she doesn’t want to support the Black Lives Matter movement. And she said, ‘This has nothing to do with black or white, this is a kid that was disobedient.’”