Some schools are apparently easing their zero tolerance for guns on campus — so long as they’re used while pretending to kill cops.
On Friday night, Jackie Malone posted a photo showing students holding rifles as other students depicting police officers lay on the ground.
“This is what the Forest Hill’s band performed at halftime,” Malone wrote of the school in Jackson.
“The scene you see is them holding guns on SWAT officers after they’ve knocked them down,” she said.
Blue Lives Matter reports on the Mississippi school:
The halftime performance for a game between Forest Hill High School and Brookhaven High School has sparked outraged after the students depicted the execution of police officers.
The Forest Hill High School band members showed students dressed and doctors and nurses using fake rifles to depict the execution of students dressed as police officers.
Here’s video of the stunt:
After a photo made its rounds on social media of Forest Hill High School band’s halftime show at Brookhaven High School last night, a video clip has now surfaced on Facebook, without audio.
It shows the moment when students held up fake guns toward others on the field. #wlbt pic.twitter.com/jip9O5w3tw
— C.J. LeMaster (@CJLeMaster) October 6, 2018
The display was especially insensitive, given that two police officers were killed in Brookhaven just one week earlier.
“I offer my sincerest regrets to the Brookhaven community for the insensitivity that portrayed during the Friday evening halftime show. There is an active investigation into the circumstances that led to this performance,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said.
“While I do not believe that there was a malice intent on behalf of the students that participated in this halftime show, I understand that we are ultimately not defined by the things that we set out to do, but rather how we respond to the things that actually do take place. It is the responsibility of adults to offer guidance to youth. Our students should have been instructed that this was neither the time or place for that performance.”
WLBT reports the band director has been “suspended.”
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