They were honoring their parents as well. One boy’s father is a police officer and the other boy’s father is a firefighter. The Superintendent of the school suspended them from the team indefinitely claiming incorrectly that they were defying orders.
The Superintendent wrote a blistering condemnation which he has since taken down. The community wholly rejected the Superintendent’s actions and he had to reinstate the boys. Since then, they were honored with scholarships at a big rally. Now, the President honored them.
Do you think that Superintendent can find a hole deep enough to hide in?
Trump introduced the two students, cornerback Brady Williams and linebacker Jared Bentley, by talking about the need to support police officers, according to a C-SPAN video of the Monday rally.
“We have to give them back their dignity,” Trump said of law enforcement. “We have to let them do their job.”
The president said the two high school football players were “good looking kids.”
“They became more famous than President Trump,” said the president. “They were beautiful, I watched them running through the crowds with those flags.”
WATCH:
Ohio Football Players Honored by President Trump
The two Little Miami High School football players had been suspended from the football team after they ran onto the field carrying a “thin blue line” flag and a “thin red line” flag. pic.twitter.com/B2IWdHGhhV— Snohomish Times News (@SnohomishTimes) September 22, 2020
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