“When she went across the stage I just called her name out. ‘Lakaydra’. Just like that,” Ursula Miller said she shouted about her niece.
Miller and Henry Walker were two of the four people asked to leave Senatobia High School’s graduation ceremony for cheering.
Police at Northwest Mississippi Community College, where the high school ceremony was held, said the superintendent asked the crowd not to scream and to hold their applause until the end.
Otherwise, they would be asked to leave.
However, that wasn’t the end of it.
“A week or two later, I was served with some papers,” Miller explained.
The papers threatened to throw them in jail.
This being Mississippi, it should not come as a surprise that the school superintendent (who supported the arrest warrants) is white and at least two of the four people served were black.
Now, I understand that the superintendent wanted the crowd to hold its applause until the end, but if someone does not do that, it is not a “disturbance of the peace violation”. Also, the First Amendment.
Maybe if they incorporated themselves before shouting….