Chad Michael Watts Arrested And Charged for fighting Texas kids
“Head shots for the year, you better handle it than Daft Punk!” – Kendrick Lamar
News flash for Donald Trump supporters who try to confront, intimidate and attack children while protesting injustice, that red hat is not a helmet.
If you open any of your countless social media apps, you'll likely see a viral video of a white gentleman in a red MAGA hat having his brakes knocked off him by a group of school kids. According to Local 12that man has now been publicly identified as 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts after he was arrested and charged with two counts of assault.
A subsequent investigation by the Buda Police Department determined that Watts was the aggressor and the children were defending themselves against him. The incident began when Hays Consolidated Independent School District was demonstrating a peaceful protest against ICE when Mr. MAGA allegedly began harassing them and making inappropriate comments. When Watts got out of his truck to physically confront one of the students, all hell broke loose, as you can see in the above video recorded by an unnamed Moe and Gene Johnson High School student.
When asked about the incident, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pointed to a social media post he made about another Texas school allowing students to walk out.
“Disruptive walkouts allowed by schools lead to exactly this kind of chaos,” Abbott wrote. “Schools and staff who allow this behavior should be treated as co-conspirators and should not be immune from criminal behavior.”
The student demonstration “was a lawful exercise of the constitutional rights to free speech and peaceful assembly,” Becerra said. “No matter one's political views, an adult bears a clear responsibility to exercise restraint, especially in the presence of children. Violence or intimidation directed at a minor – especially during a lawful, peaceful demonstration – has no place in a constitutional republic that depends on the rule of law rather than force.”
Hays CISD Superintendent Eric Wright sent an email to parents in an attempt to put the kibosh on future student-led protests and walk-outs.
The walkouts put “a strain on the resources of school districts and community law enforcement agencies — which nobody has control over what happens with national immigration policy,”
Wright goes on to say that if parents want their children to participate in civil disobedience, they should opt out of school or face unexcused absences. This idea of getting permission to protest underlies the spirit of protest. It must be uncomfortable, disturbing and potentially dangerous. That said, it's not surprising that Wright takes this stance, since his letter shows he's more concerned about conservative PR than students getting a real-life civics lesson.
“Reasonable disruptions would likely only further reinforce the negative sentiment that is developing about our students and school districts because of the videos going viral nationally,” he said.
Negative sentiment? Maybe Mr. Wright isn't familiar with wi-fi, but the internet has very positive sentiments about Chad Michael Watts getting his a** by kids.
