Wisconsin superintendent says parent who accosted him at graduation had ‘no reason’ to push him

Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.

The Wisconsin superintendent who was accosted on stage by a parent during a high school graduation last month said the encounter left him concerned for his safety, as well as that of his family and the school community at large. Baraboo Superintendent Rainey Briggs was confronted on May 31 by Matthew Eddy, who stormed the stage during the Baraboo High School graduation and physically moved Briggs out of a line of administrators greeting graduates as they received their diplomas.

“Because anyone that would accost someone in front of 3,000 students, what will they do in front of one or three or 10 or 15?” While many online have speculated about what motivated Eddy’s actions, Briggs said it was not for him to say. But he acknowledged “the optics don’t look good,” especially for a town that faced accusations of racism in 2018, when a photograph of students giving what appeared to be a Nazi salute went viral.

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