Arrest Warrants Issued To People Who Cheered At High School Graduation
Senatobia, Miss. (CBS HOUSTON) — Four people who cheered at a Mississippi high school graduation may be thrown in jail after police issued warrants for their arrest. The superintendent who filed the charges said it’s a necessary move and he is demanding order at the ceremony.
Senatobia Municipal School District Superintendent Jay Foster filed “disturbing the peace” charges against four people who yelled at graduation, WREG-TV reports. Miller and Henry Walker were two of the four Senatobia High School graduation ceremony attendees who were asked to leave for cheering on their 18-year-old daughter, Lanarcia Walker, as she crossed the stage.
“He said ‘you did it baby’, waived his towel and went out the door,” Walker said of a brief video showing Henry exiting the ceremony as he cheered.
“When she went across the stage I just called her name out. ‘Lakaydra’. Just like that,” Ursula Miller explained to WREG what she shouted to her niece at the ceremony.
The graduation ceremony was held at Northwest Mississippi Community College, where police said the superintendent asked the crowd not to scream, and to instead hold their applause until every graduate crossed the stage. If unable to do so, cheering individuals were informed they would have to leave the ceremony.
But papers would soon arrive to the cheering family members threatening to throw them in jail.
“A week or two later, I was served with some papers,” Miller told WREG.
Superintendent Jay Foster filed “disturbing the peace” charges against the people who yelled at the ceremony. Arrest warrants were issued with a possible $500 bond that the family members say is ridiculous. Foster declined to do an on-camera interview with WREG but vowed to maintain order at the school’s graduation ceremonies.
“It’s crazy,” Henry Walker said. “The fact that I might have to bond out of jail, pay court costs, or a $500 fine for expressing my love, it’s ridiculous man. It’s ridiculous…Okay, I can understand they can escort me out of the graduation, but to say they going to put me in jail for it. What else are they allowed to do?”
Linda Walker was also angered by the superintendent’s move, “Why assign papers on someone? We don’t have money for anything like that.”
Despite the families’ insistence they were just there to support loved ones, the four are expected in court on June 9.
Another example of the brain dead idiots that infect our schools. If I lived in that district I would start a campaign to get the douche bag superintendent fired.
Do not have children if you cannot afford private school.
What a bunch of shit! Graduation may be the highlight of this young lady’s life and so fucking what if her family and friends cheer for her. An announcement to “please refrain from cheering until all diplomas are handed out” or something like that may have been in rode, but definitely not this.. The ropes and lampposts can’t come soon enough.
So guys… this is in Mississippi, and the graduates whose families couldn’t hold it in have the names “Lanarcia” and “Lakaydra.” Those certainly sound like old line Anglo-Saxon names, don’t they? Want to make one guess about the various characteristics of these families?
Half the threads lately are basically black people doing bad things and the TBP posters complaining about it. Now we have a school superintendent who has taken excessive action – but is apparently targeting – drumroll please – black people doing things that, if not bad, are against his concept of order. Where do you propose to draw the line?
Oh I know this is a tough one for the TBP crowd, since it pits one set of TBP anti-favorites (schools and cops) against another set (black people), and even has another set present (Millennials) though not apparently at fault. If only we had transsexual bankers involved it would be a home run.
(I have mixed feelings about the rule here – I find schools very authoritarian and heavy-handed around graduation ceremonies, but I can understand that some would devolve into melees with air horns and worse if they didn’t have any rules. The people proudest of their graduating student are often ones who haven’t had anyone else in the family graduate from anything. Same crew that holds elaborate “graduation” ceremonies for kindergarten and 5th grade.)
No dilemma Persnickety
I guess you favor the death penalty for not following the rules.
Myself and my family cheered when my son’s name was called at his graduation ceremony. Big fucking deal. It hurt no one. It disrupted nothing. It lasted 5 seconds.
Only idiots, morons and control freak assholes would support the douchebag superintendent.
I know you are very rule oriented. You should do well when the dictatorship is established in the US.
the school superintendent forgot to add the most important part of all
“SIEG HEIL “
Jim – please explain to my which rules are good ones that we should all follow, and which are not?
Can you condense it to a universally applicable guide of 100 words or less? Or are we talking 100 RE-style tomes, that still leave questions unanswered? I tend to think the latter, given that this is one of if not “the” major questions of political philosophy. But I am ready to be enlightened.
We should send in the US Navy to enforce regulations, rules and fairness of the auditorium.
Follow whatever fucking rules you want to follow. I don’t give a fuck.
Snick, breaking a rule is not the same as breaking the law. But now it is, cause the law is involved. You go on, henry walker, you rule breaking proud daddy. Your daughter did something positive. I’ll live with your outburst, and smile
Wow, talk about not seeing the damned (debt) forest through the trees.
WHY DO WE TAXPAYERS have to pay for this?
Does the SCHOOL, or Superintendent, open THEIR purse-strings and pay for the warrants, cops, clerks, probation officers, judges, more clerk, bailiffs, more cops now called jailers, and all their gdamn union reps? What if these families CAN’T pay? Then what, oh yeah, more warrants, cops, clerks, officers, judges, more clerks, baliffs, etc. etc.
For being happy about a graduate?
WTF is WRONG with this country?
Why does Persnick LIKE the fact his kids will be worked to death and we still won’t be able to pay for “enforcement of rules” that he, and his peers, have demanded and put in place over the past 40 years?
This stuff just makes my stomach hurt. Then when the future victims support it, I nearly need to hurl.
A gilded cage is still a prison, and I beg someone to prove to me I don’t live in a prison where constant threat of incarceration and loss of my lifetime of work is not possible without even intending to commit a freaking crime.
“WTF CONTROL FREAK STORY OF THE DAY”
…until you actually see who the victims are (black) in which case one promptly realizes that it’s merely another WTF RACIST MF STORY OF THE DAY.
Sounds to me like the Super was “abridging the freedom of speech” under the 1st Amendment. At least that’s the case I’d argue.
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Thank the principal for trying but consider the crowd and give up; move the graduation ceremony to a football stadium next year and let people yell, wave flags, blow horns for their favorites.
Air horns, cowbells and various other noisemakers are heard at graduations in my neck of the woods.
And a good time is had by all.
WTF?!? indeed!
Penn head ,you see the shit I have to put when I defend RULE OF LAW in ORDER. Is it to much ask these people to behave like humans instead of acting like a bunch of chimpanzees
There is nothing more revolting then having to listen to blacks screaming at each other.
I’ve been to Graduations in an all white (less than 1% black) area of multi $m dollar homes and there is always the request to hold the cheering to the end, and that request is always ignored. The screaming and cheering and the use air horns, all of that happens all the time.
The idea that because it’s a black family doing this makes it unacceptable is just bull shit.
A young girl puts forth the effort to get her diploma and the family is proud and express their feelings rather loudly so what? She chose to get a diploma instead of getting pregnant and going on welfare, if I was there I’d cheer for her also.
Dear victims of the school superintendent,
Request a jury trial. Start a publicity campaign to educate the citizens about jury nullification. Have your aware make his case based on common sense and not the law. Good luck.
JURY NULLIFICATION is our way to fight for justice. Screw the government drones.
Only solution seems to be – again – separate graduations for them and us.
Those who want a dignified ceremony where you shut the fuck up and hold the applause till everyone’s done? File into Room A.
If you want air horns, pandemonium and beach balls bouncing around the crowd, file into Room B.
If it breaks along racial lines, well so what?
Super is a dickbag for putting paper on folks though…