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Offensive George Floyd-Themed Promposal Causes Outrage at California High School

Parents now want the student who made the invite to not attend the prom.

Itโ€™s happened again, some high school students just canโ€™t help it.

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Aliso Niguel High School in Orange County, California is getting heat over a studentโ€™s promposal that uses the death of George Floyd, according to NBC News.

The prom invite read, โ€œIf you went to prom [with me], it would take my breath awayโ€ and it included a picture of Floyd with the fist used by Black Lives Matter.

In what world is that even a romantic or cute promposal? A racist one.

Parents Angela and Mike were made aware of the prom invite after their biracial daughter showed them a picture of it.

From NBC Los Angeles:

โ€œIt had a Black Lives fist up on it and a picture of George Floyd and at that point and I was like, โ€˜Are you serious? Theyโ€™re making this a joke?โ€™โ€ said Mike, whose daughter attends Aliso Niguel High School.

Their daughter is biracial and also going to Aliso Niguelโ€™s prom this weekend, and they donโ€™t want the boy involved to be there.

โ€œWe really just donโ€™t want this kid around our daughter, plain and simple,โ€ said Mike.

Prom is an event, said Angela.

โ€œTheyโ€™ve already been robbed of two years of high school through COVID, and so the excitement they had โ€” literally the day before โ€” for prom versus the excitement they had last night, or the defeat they had last night, was heartbreaking,โ€ she said.

In a statement, the Capistrano Unified School said the sign is, โ€œdisgusting, lacks cultural sensitivity, is deeply offensive, and does not reflect the values we strive for in our school district,โ€ according to NBC Los Angeles.

It continued, โ€œWe serve a diverse community and we value all of our students and families.โ€

This comes as Thomas Lane, one of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the killing of Floyd pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

Lane is also one of the three cops, along with J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thoa, who have already been convicted in federal court for violating Floydโ€™s rights while former officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on his neck that led to his eventual death.

Earlier this month, Chauvin accepted a plea deal in the federal civil rights case.

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