Mom locked up for cheering at child's graduation
FLORENCE, SC (WPDE) - Shannon Cooper cheered as her daughter walked
across the stage to get her diploma from South Florence High School
Saturday night, but just minutes later, Shannon was handcuffed and
arrested.
"Are ya'll serious? Are ya'll for real? I mean, that's
what I'm thinking in my mind. I didn't say anything. I was just like OK,
I can't fight the law. I can't argue with the police, but I'm like are
you serious? I didn't do any more than the others did. Which I feel like
no one should have went to jail," said Shannon.
Florence police charged Shannon with disorderly conduct.
She
said officers walked her across the Florence Civic Center, where the
graduation ceremony was being held, in full view of everyone, including
her daughter, Iesha Cooper, 18.
"Humiliation. I don't even think
humiliation could describe how I felt. You know, because I feel from
just my feelings and then looking at my daughter how she felt, I could
take you know you know if I did something ,but like I said, yes they
said you'll be escorted out no problem. I'll be escorted out. I'll go
nicely because I'm gonna cheer. It was hard work. I went through so much
to get her to this point you know," explained Shannon.
Her daughter, Iesha, said she didn't really know what was going on until friends told her her mother was being arrested.
"They're
locking your momma up for cheering - and I was like that isn't right
because other people was cheering and they didn't lock them up," said
Iesha.
Police said it was announced before the ceremony that anyone who cheered or screamed would be escorted out of the building.
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It sounds indeed strange to be arrested for cheering, but you also have to see it from the other side. Did she really react like she said she did?
humiliation could describe how I felt. You know, because I feel from
just my feelings and then looking at my daughter how she felt,"- it must be humiliating to have such an ignorant parent.
Which I feel like no one should have went to jail," said Shannon.
Judging from those quotes, it is possible she was the first one in the family to finish high school. But rules be rules. Make an ass of yourself and destroy the dignity of the event, out you go.
"I was there and this lady deserved to be locked up. She didn't get humiliated by the cops she humiliated herself. She jumped up and wasn't cheering but SCREAMING at the top of her lungs. Then when the cop asked her to leave she wouldn't. She started to dance and jump around and make a huge scene before she left. The principle warned everyone this woman is no exception. Everyone else that was asked to leave got up and quietly left. If this woman was really proud of her daughter she would have been quiet and let her daughter have the spot light as she walked acrossed the stage, not steal it from her. DISGUSTING!!"
"I was there and first let me say that at the beginning of the ceremony it was told to us that it was the students wishes that there be no cheering and they wanted this day to be about them. Acting in that way defnitely took the attention away from the graduating students. The cheering and disorderly conduct started early. Seems to me once she saw the first few being escorted out that she would have known it was going to happen to her. It got to the point where people were hollering and then grabbing their things immediately to leave. I think EVERY person that acted this way should at least be fined and if taken to jail is what the police officer thought was needed then so be it. You wonder why our kids don't respect authority when the adults can't even do it. I thought it was very disrespectful. I had someone graduating also and I was just as excited as she was I'm sure, but there is something called self control....."