Oh, that would have been awesome. Third graders with baseball bats. And nasty dispositions.
This quiz does not take into account that I own a “sawed-off” bardiche.
So, an axe?
Mostly, but the very nice “stabby” part makes it much more handy than a more standard axe.
Authorities identified the man involved, unsurprisingly named Chad Watts. He’s been charged with two counts of assault with body injury.
Since he has been arrested, can we assume that’s a mug shot from this arrest on this news site?
If so (and that’s a big “if” all around), it looks like he immediately shaved off his facial hair and trimmed his head hair way down from the way he looked in the original video. Makes me wonder if he was hoping to escape further notice that way.
Just some idle speculation about how far over in the stupid spectrum he really is.
Or was that long hair look a disguise so he’d not look like a raging MAGA and the RW crowd would assume he was a lefty hippie radical antifa?
That seems to be the most logical inference to draw.
Another photo from a Newsweek article:
I believe that was from his arrest, as speculated, as you can still some minor injuries on his face from the fight.
Now that he’s been arrested I wonder if KXAN-TV will mention it.
I also wonder if pigs will fly.
It’s on their website but they certainly aren’t emphasizing it.
The bigger local news is Greg Abbott is threatening students for ICE protest walk-outs and the schools/teachers where it happens. Also the asinine (and confusing) rollout of the Texas school voucher program
Threatening them with what; can the Governor of Texas give out detention?
Send truancy officers out to arrest them?
I don’t think he’s directly threatening the students; rather, he’s threatening to withhold state funding to those schools that ‘permit’ students to walkout.
Yes, indirectly threatening them by targeting the people around them.
He’s craven, not stupid. He wouldn’t risk the optics on directly enforcing any fiat decisions on minors when he can get local districts to do it, instead
Around here, if you walk out you are truant and it’s treated no differently than someone who skips school to hang out with friends. And I live in a very blue county. They say they respect kids’ freedom of expression, but don’t support the walkouts and don’t give exceptions to the rules for them. The kids do it anyway, of course. What was in the article is similar to what the schools around here say:
In a letter to parents, AISD Superintendent Matias Segura said the demonstrations were not sponsored or endorsed by the district and that the district wants to have students in class during school hours.
Does Abbot expect the schools to put kids in cages? How do they stop someone from leaving?
In a letter to parents, AISD Superintendent Matias Segura said the demonstrations were not sponsored or endorsed by the district and that the district wants to have students in class during school hours.
Frankly, I think Abbott is just talking shit and posturing to satisfy his base. You can’t stop protests by punishing schools and I think he knows it. But hey, if he wants more protests he can try.
Also, I think this discussion should be in the “Fuck Texas” thread, not this one.
Armed truant officers wearing masks and camouflage gear will scare those kids straight.
Correction:
… will scare the survivors straight.
The school is a cage. At my kids’ school, there’s only limited access into and out of campus. On the last walkout day, the school barred the gates so no one could leave.
This is in SoCal and the school admin is very protest friendly, just not during school hours. Some kids just skipped school entirely, or waited until release, to protest.