A mother was handcuffed and arrested in Florence, South Carolina for cheering too loudly at her daughter’s high-school graduation. She was taken to the detention center and booked for disorderly conduct. The incident was shocking to those who attended the school event.
This all happened after parents were warned not to cheer, yell, or shout during the roll call.
However, Shannon Cooper chose to break the rule and cheer her graduate on anyway, which got her arrested for disorderly conduct.
“Don’t scream, don’t cheer. No, I’m thinking in my mind. No, I’mma cheer because, you know, I went through too much to get her to this point. I can’t show my excitement? I can’t cheer? I can’t applaud her letting her know yes, I’m so proud of you, like all the other years when people graduate. How can I not cheer for my child?,” Cooper said.
Cooper was kept in jail for hours before she was allowed to pay 225 dollars to be released.
Pamela Little-McDaniel, a spokeswoman for the school district, told ABC News, “Because three high schools were graduating together, it was important to ensure that every parent was able to hear their child’s name called. The school sent out multiple notices to all parents requesting their cooperation and warning them that cheering or yelling could get them removed by police from the ceremony.”
“The school did try to communicate this information with the parent, so everyone would be able to hear the ceremony and hear their child’s name get called,” she added.
its not a black thing ... this is happening everywhere
why would you try and turn this into a black-white issue >????
people have been getting arrested for this for years 
A mother was handcuffed and arrested in Florence, South Carolina for cheering too loudly at her daughter’s high-school graduation. She was taken to the detention center and booked for disorderly conduct. The incident was shocking to those who attended the school event.
This all happened after parents were warned not to cheer, yell, or shout during the roll call.
However, Shannon Cooper chose to break the rule and cheer her graduate on anyway, which got her arrested for disorderly conduct.
“Don’t scream, don’t cheer. No, I’m thinking in my mind. No, I’mma cheer because, you know, I went through too much to get her to this point. I can’t show my excitement? I can’t cheer? I can’t applaud her letting her know yes, I’m so proud of you, like all the other years when people graduate. How can I not cheer for my child?,” Cooper said.
Cooper was kept in jail for hours before she was allowed to pay 225 dollars to be released.
Pamela Little-McDaniel, a spokeswoman for the school district, told ABC News, “Because three high schools were graduating together, it was important to ensure that every parent was able to hear their child’s name called. The school sent out multiple notices to all parents requesting their cooperation and warning them that cheering or yelling could get them removed by police from the ceremony.”
“The school did try to communicate this information with the parent, so everyone would be able to hear the ceremony and hear their child’s name get called,” she added.
its not a black thing ... this is happening everywhere
You do know Shannon Cooper was also (wait for it) black....
Why turn it into a black/white thing when I, DoubleUp4Life, just gave you an example of ...getting arrested while cheering at a graduation....while black, hence the very title of the OP's thread....
Folks, the posters here are PURE GOLD....every one of them.
You do know Shannon Cooper was also (wait for it) black....
Why turn it into a black/white thing when I, DoubleUp4Life, just gave you an example of ...getting arrested while cheering at a graduation....while black, hence the very title of the OP's thread....
Folks, the posters here are PURE GOLD....every one of them.
Actually I don't look desperate.
These are actually the very stories that highlight what it is to be Black in America, that is, that even the slightest infraction of any rule, no matter the circumstance, can lead to the harshest penalty, even death (just ask Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Akai Gurley etc. etc. etc.).
Ya see, the Black community is constantly harassed (and jailed, fined, roughed up, even killed etc.) in ways the white community knows nothing of.
Why do you think this story made national headlines??? Because it was a COMMON occurrence? That's what makes DoubleUp4Life look like a fool. It is news PRECISELY because this doesn't happen in communities at graduation in general. And even he cited another story where a black family was jailed and fined for the exact same thing, hence, supporting my point.
It was taken so far as to fine the family and face JAIL TIME for ...cheering at a graduation.
Now, your example of asking a crowd not to engage in a certain behavior is far different than possibly ARRESTING someone for doing that very thing.
And lo and behold, it's in South Carolina, a state that is still proud to fly the Confederate flag over it's Capitol Building.
The very fact you think this is desperate and foolish shows the chasm you have with any understanding of black life in America, hence your attitude in general and Drizzle calling me 'psychotic.'
You're in your own little world with little understanding of anything else when it comes to life in the black community.
I'll keep posting what is purportedly 'ridiculous' stories precisely because they are ridiculous....that is, ridiculous when a black individual is involved....but not so ridiculous when those blacks are fined, arrested, roughed up, jailed, and possibly killed.
Actually I don't look desperate.
These are actually the very stories that highlight what it is to be Black in America, that is, that even the slightest infraction of any rule, no matter the circumstance, can lead to the harshest penalty, even death (just ask Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Akai Gurley etc. etc. etc.).
Ya see, the Black community is constantly harassed (and jailed, fined, roughed up, even killed etc.) in ways the white community knows nothing of.
Why do you think this story made national headlines??? Because it was a COMMON occurrence? That's what makes DoubleUp4Life look like a fool. It is news PRECISELY because this doesn't happen in communities at graduation in general. And even he cited another story where a black family was jailed and fined for the exact same thing, hence, supporting my point.
It was taken so far as to fine the family and face JAIL TIME for ...cheering at a graduation.
Now, your example of asking a crowd not to engage in a certain behavior is far different than possibly ARRESTING someone for doing that very thing.
And lo and behold, it's in South Carolina, a state that is still proud to fly the Confederate flag over it's Capitol Building.
The very fact you think this is desperate and foolish shows the chasm you have with any understanding of black life in America, hence your attitude in general and Drizzle calling me 'psychotic.'
You're in your own little world with little understanding of anything else when it comes to life in the black community.
I'll keep posting what is purportedly 'ridiculous' stories precisely because they are ridiculous....that is, ridiculous when a black individual is involved....but not so ridiculous when those blacks are fined, arrested, roughed up, jailed, and possibly killed.
Kudos to white people for showing restraint. 
So I threaten to leave...every day...
Even with hyperbole, that statement in and of itself is borderline...psychotic it is so detached from reality.
And when have I ever said blacks have never committed a violent crime or even implied as such?
Again, because of your age, and/or your education level, and/or your reading comprehension skills (or lack thereof), you fail to see I continually say the posters here FOCUS on posting almost solely about black violent crime (and then you have a little degradation party about the black race in general in such threads), hence, and I've done this for nine years (11 with wagerline), I bring balance to the forum with counter-stories.
So be careful who you are addressing because you will be held accountable for misinformed, if not, completely asinine statements, just as I had to do to DoubleUP above (and that took less than two seconds to do).
And believe me, calling out you closet bigots daily IS making a change. Because although you'll never change in the near future, there will come a day, likely some 75 years from today where you and your ilk here will have that 'eureka' moment of, "Damn, I really was being a f***ing racist all those years wasn't I!" And although that's worth little to nothing, it is worth a little, in that at least as you leave this world with your last breath, you'll have the realization you took millions of breaths trying to make it all the more miserable by dehumanizing one particular race (and that dehumanization leads to a general zeitgeist of life and death consequences, if not misery in the least). And if I were that person? Well, I feel mighty bad for ya if that's how I went out...
Pamela Little-McDaniel, a spokeswoman for the school district, told ABC News, “Because three high schools were graduating together, it was important to ensure that every parent was able to hear their child’s name called. The school sent out multiple notices to all parents requesting their cooperation and warning them that cheering or yelling could get them removed by police from the ceremony.”
Pamela Little-McDaniel, a spokeswoman for the school district, told ABC News, “Because three high schools were graduating together, it was important to ensure that every parent was able to hear their child’s name called. The school sent out multiple notices to all parents requesting their cooperation and warning them that cheering or yelling could get them removed by police from the ceremony.”
Getting removed by police seems a bit different being served an arrest warrant and fined doesn't it.
So to use your little confused emoticon there, here ya go...
Getting removed by police seems a bit different being served an arrest warrant and fined doesn't it.
So to use your little confused emoticon there, here ya go...
Established in 1995,
Hot Forum Topics
