LEHIGH ACRES, Florida (PNN) - February 9, 2014 - A Florida high school student under suspension for 10 days after breaking up a lunchroom assault on a homosexual teen says he’d do it again.
East Lee County High School senior Mark Betterson stepped in as another student, James Griffin, began striking student Jonathan Colon in the school’s lunchroom moments after Griffin threw milk in his face and called him a homosexual slur.
Griffin faces battery charges, while Colon received minor injuries.
Betterson received a 10-day suspension under the Fort Myers-area school’s zero-tolerance policy around fighting, but he plans to appeal. “It’s not fair for somebody to get beaten up for something that he is,” said Betterson. “I’m not going to sit there and watch someone get bullied. I’ve been bullied too.”
Colon returned to school Friday and organized a rally to protest Betterson’s suspension, which was issued by the mindless bureaucrats administering the school’s unAmerikan socialist policies.