BEMIDJI, MN - A staff member at an elementary school in Bemidji, Minnesota, is facing intense scrutiny after allegedly reposting a video to social media that appears to celebrate student-on-student violence, particularly when a student who supports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the one being attacked.
There’s a sizeable amount of outrage brewing over the alleged social media antics of 27-year-old Kaili Schmidt, a staff member at Gene Dillon Elementary School in Bemidji, as one of her reposts on Instagram seemingly celebrated the assault of a pro-ICE student, which happened at a high school in Chicago earlier in February.
In the original video depicting the Chicago incident, a high school student who goes by the online moniker “Danny Spud” walked the hallways of Lake Zurich High School on February 12, holding a sign that read “I Love ICE” while some students were actively engaged in anti-ICE demonstrations.
While recording himself walking through the school hallways, Spud is approached by another student who threatens him, saying, “Yeah, I’m going to punch you in the face.” When Spud responds to the student, telling him he’s “going to get in trouble for that,” the student immediately launches an attack.
Despite the blatant assault caught on camera, school security and what appeared to be resource officers simply separated the two parties, with no reports since the incident suggesting the violent anti-ICE student faced any legal ramifications.
In the days following the incident, anti-ICE personalities have cheered on the blatant criminal assault carried out by the student seen in the Chicago video, leading to various memes and video edits depicting the violent student as some kind of figure to be lauded.
One such person who allegedly shared one of these video edits praising the violent student attacking a pro-ICE peer was Schmidt. The post contained hashtags like “#icon” and “#FICE,” which can only be digested as Schmidt endorsing the concept of students who support law enforcement being violently attacked by their peers.
Schmidt’s alleged social media post creates serious concerns about how students who are vocally pro-law enforcement, or students who may simply be the children of law enforcement professionals, are being treated when left in the care of these sorts of public school employees.
If school faculty members openly find it funny, or flat out condone children with pro-law enforcement views being violently assaulted by their peers, it makes one wonder what parents of these students aren’t privy to.
If a similar incident played out in Schmidt’s school that wasn’t caught on video, would Schmidt and her fellow staff members run cover for an anti-ICE student attacking another child? Or worse, would they discipline a pro-ICE student who gets attacked by a peer by constructing a false narrative painting the pro-ICE student as the aggressor?
While the aforementioned are hypothetical scenarios, it wouldn’t be far-fetched for some parents of students enrolled at Gene Dillon Elementary School to wonder if incidents like the above are occurring when you actively have school staff cheering on pro-law enforcement students being assaulted at other schools across the country.
Law Enforcement Today has since reached out to Gene Dillon Elementary School Principal Ami Aalgaard for comment on the matter, inquiring whether Schmidt’s social media post violates current school district policies and whether the incident has been addressed by faculty due to Schmidt’s proximity to students.
Aalgaard has yet to respond to the direct inquiry, nor has any statement been released by the school or district regarding the matter.
There’s a sizeable amount of outrage brewing over the alleged social media antics of 27-year-old Kaili Schmidt, a staff member at Gene Dillon Elementary School in Bemidji, as one of her reposts on Instagram seemingly celebrated the assault of a pro-ICE student, which happened at a high school in Chicago earlier in February.
In the original video depicting the Chicago incident, a high school student who goes by the online moniker “Danny Spud” walked the hallways of Lake Zurich High School on February 12, holding a sign that read “I Love ICE” while some students were actively engaged in anti-ICE demonstrations.
While recording himself walking through the school hallways, Spud is approached by another student who threatens him, saying, “Yeah, I’m going to punch you in the face.” When Spud responds to the student, telling him he’s “going to get in trouble for that,” the student immediately launches an attack.
Despite the blatant assault caught on camera, school security and what appeared to be resource officers simply separated the two parties, with no reports since the incident suggesting the violent anti-ICE student faced any legal ramifications.
In the days following the incident, anti-ICE personalities have cheered on the blatant criminal assault carried out by the student seen in the Chicago video, leading to various memes and video edits depicting the violent student as some kind of figure to be lauded.
One such person who allegedly shared one of these video edits praising the violent student attacking a pro-ICE peer was Schmidt. The post contained hashtags like “#icon” and “#FICE,” which can only be digested as Schmidt endorsing the concept of students who support law enforcement being violently attacked by their peers.
Schmidt’s alleged social media post creates serious concerns about how students who are vocally pro-law enforcement, or students who may simply be the children of law enforcement professionals, are being treated when left in the care of these sorts of public school employees.
If school faculty members openly find it funny, or flat out condone children with pro-law enforcement views being violently assaulted by their peers, it makes one wonder what parents of these students aren’t privy to.
If a similar incident played out in Schmidt’s school that wasn’t caught on video, would Schmidt and her fellow staff members run cover for an anti-ICE student attacking another child? Or worse, would they discipline a pro-ICE student who gets attacked by a peer by constructing a false narrative painting the pro-ICE student as the aggressor?
While the aforementioned are hypothetical scenarios, it wouldn’t be far-fetched for some parents of students enrolled at Gene Dillon Elementary School to wonder if incidents like the above are occurring when you actively have school staff cheering on pro-law enforcement students being assaulted at other schools across the country.
Law Enforcement Today has since reached out to Gene Dillon Elementary School Principal Ami Aalgaard for comment on the matter, inquiring whether Schmidt’s social media post violates current school district policies and whether the incident has been addressed by faculty due to Schmidt’s proximity to students.
Aalgaard has yet to respond to the direct inquiry, nor has any statement been released by the school or district regarding the matter.
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