Lake Stevens schools investigating apparent racist threat
LAKE STEVENS — Police are helping the Lake Stevens School District investigate a student’s racist social media post, according to a Monday night email to staff, families and students.
“We are reaching out to you to acknowledge a racist and hateful social media post being circulated among students in our school district,” Superintendent Ken Collins wrote in the email. “… While we have limited control over what students choose to do in their own homes, we strongly condemn any actions that make our students or employees feel unsafe.”
In a screenshot of a Snapchat post shared with The Daily Herald, a student wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt — a euphemism used in place of “(expletive) Joe Biden” — is holding a long gun in one hand with the caption, “going (expletive) huntin.”
At least one other student interpreted the shortening of “raccoon” in the student’s post as an offensive slur for a Black person.
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