A high school graduation is supposed to be a happy occasion, where family and friends show up to celebrate the achievements of the graduates.
Well Media Take Out learned that’s NOT what happened on Friday – when a full on WWE style brawl broke out during a Louisiana high school graduation.
The violence occurred at the graduation ceremony of George Washington Carver High School, a school described by US News & World Report as minority populated school where the “total minority enrollment is 100%, and 76% of students are economically disadvantaged.” US News also claims that only 4% of the students are proficient in Math, and less than 20% of students are proficient in reading or science.
On Friday, students at George Washington Carver were set to graduate from the local prominent historically Black college, Xavier University. And everything was fine, until a group of parents started yelling at each other. Media Take Out learned that the arguing escalated, and before long – people were bashed in the head with chairs – and a full on riot broke out.
Xavier University Police Department responded to a fight in the Convocation Center at a graduation hosted by George Washington Carver High School. In partnership with the New Orleans Police Department, XUPD was able to deescalate the situation, and police tell Media Take Out that no one was arrested.
Here is a video of the incident going down: