Tennessee college student arrested after wearing gorilla mask to Black Lives Matter protest
A Tennessee man wore a gorilla mask, carried a rope and tried to hand out bananas at a college Black Lives Matter protest Wednesday, police said.
East Tennessee State University campus police arrested freshman student Tristan Rettke, who is white, on a charge of civil rights intimidation following the disruption, the Johnson City Press reported. University officials condemned his act and scheduled a community discussion.
A video published by the newspaper showed the man later identified as Rettke wearing overalls and also holding a burlap sack with a marijuana leaf and Confederate flag on it. He dangled a banana with the rope toward the dozen or so demonstrators in the video.
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It wouldn't surprise me if some lawyer, ACLU, you know they defended the protest in Skokie Illinois or someone else, could end up defending this character.
An ugly thing to do; but we don't always have the right to not be offended,
but...I see he is being charged with "Civil Rights intimidation". This does sound right though, we don't want to offend whatever minority, Chinese for example or whomever, whites, the police, etc.
Interesting questions, this is over-the-top to me.
Does Black Lives Matter ever have protesters saying offensive things? I think so. This guy though, went all out.
