Man arrested after assaulting girl during high school protest against ICE.

[SunSeeker]

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A 45-year-old man has been arrested after a student protest in Buda on Monday escalated into a violent confrontation.Buda police identified 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle as the primary aggressor in a fight with a minor during a walkout by hundreds of Hays CISD students on Monday, protesting immigration and law enforcement operations. Watts faces two counts of assault causing bodily injury. Both Watts and the girl involved reported minor injuries but declined medical evaluation.


A video obtained by CBS Austin, taken by a student at Moe and Gene Johnson High School, shows Watts outside his pickup truck, physically confronting a student. Then, you see students shouting and throwing objects as Watts walked toward his truck.Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra described the incident as a stark reminder of the power imbalance between adults and minors.

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“A full-grown adult on a young high school girl is a lot of power to overthrow, and so it took enough people around finally to get him off of her, and ultimately he went back into his truck and took off,” Becerra said.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/kyle-man-arrested-after-altercation-with-minors-during-student-protest-in-buda


Full video here, including the part CBS cut out, showing Chad Michael Watts instigating the altercation by pushing down, then wrestling, a young girl:

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[hatrack]

1. Trumpism illustrated in exactly 59 seconds . . .

Real manly, taking on a high school girl.

Pathetic.

[dalton99a]

2. MAGA man beats up high school girls

[malaise]

8. The first video that was posted here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUUl3L2jaoM/

[malaise]

3. Effer got beat up real good too

Ran like a coward

[SunSeeker]

6. Yup, then he shaved his head hoping nobody would recognize him.

Didn't work, lol. MAGAts are so fucking stupid.





Looks like the kids clocked him in the eye pretty good.

[maxrandb]

12. I don't think he shaved his head

in the full video of the incident, it looks like one of the teens ripped his toupee off.

[SunSeeker]

13. His mustache and goatee is shaved off too.

He definitely tried to make himself look like a trailer hitch.

[maxrandb]

14. Or a giant dickhead

In that, he was successful.

[SunSeeker]

16. Nailed it!

[The Madcap]

4. I'm just glad that moron didn't have a gun.

Kudos for the kids for working together and for humiliating that fool. They know the score.

[bluestarone]

35. Agree, but i would watch his ass closely for a gun the next time.

That's for sure. Glad they kicked his ass though.

[malaise]

5. Adding this

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUUc7GUjVId/

[SunSeeker]

7. Greg Abbott is such a piece of shit. He is instigating this MAGA violence.

[malaise]

9. I'll never forgive that tree

😀

[Clouds Passing]

33. Scabbott

[maxrandb]

10. CBS carrying water for the Nazis again, I see

Anyone want to tell me what's wrong with this part of CBS' story?

"shows Watts outside his pickup truck, physically confronting a student. Then, you see students shouting and throwing objects as Watts walked toward his truck"

Does that match what is on the video? (Oh, it matches the cropped video you can see posted on Reich-Wing " influencer" sites and Tik-Tok, X-crement...and I guess now CBS), bur what's missing? What's been cropped?

Well, if you saw the entire video, the MAGAt dipshit got the snot beat out of him by teens, including some girls..

He was ONLY able to cowardly slither back to his "twuck", because the teens deescalated his ass beating. Only then did they "throw" some things at him. It appears that one of the things they threw was his stupid fucking hat.

Why crop the video?

The Reich-wing wants to show that he's a big, "strwong" burly man (probably looking lovingly up at Donnie Dipshit with tears in his eyes) and these "liberal" kids were "weak", reduced to throwing things at him as he "proudly and strongly" walks away.

The last thing they want you to know is that a bunch of teens, including girls, beat his MAGAt ass, and saved him from a worse beating.

CBS must keep up the "he-man" facade. It's their job now.

[malaise]

11. Great post

Rec

[SunSeeker]

15. Can you give me a link to the full video so I can add it to the OP? nt

[maxrandb]

19. It's in this DU post from the other day

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220992454

[SunSeeker]

20. Thanks!

[malaise]

23. I just love how the girls went after him after he attacked the first girl

Then the boys joined too. Refreshing to see.

[maxrandb]

36. The other, and probably MOST important part of the video that CBS cropped

was where he initially violently pushed a teen girl to the ground, went after her and tried to punch another GIRL coming to the first girls aid.

It is only AFTER that he got his ass beat.

I am pretty sure what I would do if I saw a grown man shove a young woman to the ground.

[malaise]

39. Agree

Even at my age I’d step in
😀

[Liberal In Texas]

18. These guys get out of their pickups now and walk over to assault kids. Happened the other day in Fremont, NE.

Then the guy in Fremont got back in and purposely ran into one of the protesters.

These assholes love violence.

Good on those kids for jumping on his butt .

[Takket]

21. Remember the glory years of when America was great?

When you could beat the shit out of a child for exercising their first amendment rights? Just like the founding fathers intended when they established our Christian nation?

[Emile]

22. Fascists have no shame.

[malaise]

24. Bet he's a domestic abuser

Effin piece of shit

[2MuchNoise]

25. Love these kids!

People try to put us down
Talkin' 'bout my generation
Just because we get around
Talkin' 'bout my generation
Things they do look awful c-c-cold
Talkin' 'bout my generation

[maxrandb]

40. Slip Kids - No easy way to be free

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ...
I've got my clipboard, text books
Lead me to the station
Yeah, I'm off to the civil war
I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots
I'm runnin' in the rain
Gonna run till my feet are raw

Slip kid, slip kid, second generation
And I'm a soldier at thirteen
Slip kid, slip kid, realization
There's no easy way to be free
No easy way to be free
It's a hard, hard world

I left my doctor's prescription bungalow behind
I left the door ajar
I left my vacuum flask
Full of hot tea and sugar
Left the keys right in my car

Slip kid, slip kid, second generation
Only half way up the tree
Slip kid, slip kid, I'm a relation
I'm a soldier at sixty-three
No easy way to be free
Slip kid, slip kid

Keep away old man, you won't fool me
You and your history won't rule me
You might have been a fighter, but admit you failed
I'm not affected by your blackmail
You won't blackmail me

I've got my clipboard, text books
Lead me to the station
Yeah, I'm off to the civil war
I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots
I'm runnin' in the rain
Gonna run till my feet are raw
Slip kid, slip kid, slip out of trouble
Slip over here and set me free
Slip kid, slip kid, second generation
You're slidin' down the hill like me
No easy way to be free
No easy way to be free
No easy way to be free

[Diamond_Dog]

26. What in holy hell is wrong with these asshole men?

Beating up on high school girls? Maybe he needs to work off his energy in a rock pile at a prison.

[dutch777]

27. Mass student walk outs, sit ins or whatever would send a powerful message. Go kids!!!

[CrispyQ]

32. It's what captured the nation's attention back during Vietnam.

There were nightly reports on the news of college sit-ins & protests all over the country. I remember watching & wishing I was a college student instead of a 10-year-old stuck on a farm. By the time I graduated from high school, the voting age had been lowered from 21 to 18. Teenaged boomers did that.

Young people have incredible power if they'd just use it. And who has more at stake in the future than young people? They just need to remember, the system isn't perfect.

[Torchlight]

28. A Chad going after younger female teens, eh? Ironically on-brand.

Guy should act his age and not his politics.

[dutch777]

29. Mass student protests would have big impact. Be it walk outs or hallway sit ins, hard for adults to ignore. Go kids!!!

I saw an article about TN Superintendent of Schools trying to discourage disruption to the educational day although acknowledging the kids First Amendment rights. His ask was to do any protests outside of school time. But point is much better made, and bigger news, during school time. Hit it kids-- shape your future to be more just!

[CrispyQ]

30. Gee, I wonder why CBS would cut the part where the man clearly started the incident. ???

Our media...

[Aviation Pro]

31. Well done, kids

Punches should have been harder.

Also, where were the cowardly adults?

[BWdem4life]

34. Holding onto that red hat for dear life

lol

[bluestarone]

37. He should lose his job, where ever he works.

Fingers crossed here!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. This asshole tried to change his appearance after this assault

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[flvegan]

42. Seriously? LOLOL! AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Can't. Catch. My breath.

[flvegan]

41. Did they miss the part where the kids kicked his stupid ass?

I saw the part about shouting and throwing things, which is reality in part. That did happen. His ass getting thoroughly kicked by a bunch of kids was the bigger part of that.

I only watched the video a couple times, and I swear one of those kids moved behind him like he was going to put him in a chokehold. Putting his lights out would have been absolute *chefs kiss*

Didn't click on CBS link (because fuck them). Won't click on X (because double fuck them).

[Talitha]

43. Go frame by frame.

Somewhere near the middle, you can clearly see a young man come up from behind and put the guy in a chokehold, keeping him there for a time with a leg hold, preventing him from getting up.

During that time, two young women approach from the side and front, kicking their legs out at his ribs and head - no idea if the kicks connected or not.

Students blocked the view and suddenly the guy was up and scrambling away. I can't tell if he broke free or was released, but considering the situation he was in, I'm guessing the young man released him.

That chump really took an ass-whipping!