School board member's son urges people to shoot Black people 'for fun' in viral video (MD) [View all]

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WICOMICO COUNTY, Md.- Over 400 shares on Facebook and several comments later, a video went viral Tuesday evening, showing a Parkside High School student, who is also the son of Tonya Laird Lewis, a Wicomico County Board of Education member, held up a pellet gun while saying the words, “Shoot n-word for fun, you hear me?”

“I found it repulsive in this day and time that a student would say what he said in that video clip,” Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said. “For God’s sake this is 2022 man. Are you kidding me? To have that type of racist language spewing from the mouth of a 15-year-old.”

Sheriff Mike Lewis said when he first saw the video he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“This is unacceptable, thank God we had someone who contacted us; and I personally received a number of Facebook posts regarding this post,” Sheriff Lewis said. “We already had deputies on it, we already had deputies working on the investigation.”

His department took it as an immediate threat and sent deputies to the students house Tuesday night. There, they conducted a threat assessment with both the family and the home.

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