Four People Arrested For Cheering Too Loudly At High School Graduation

(CNN)- Four people who cheered — allegedly excessively — for their loved ones at a high school graduation ceremony in Senatobia, Mississippi, say they’ve now been slapped with an excessive punishment.Two weeks after watching her niece walk across the stage at Senatobia High School’s graduation ceremony on May 21, Ursula Miller received a warrant for her arrest for disturbing the peace. “I just called her name out. ‘Lakaydra,’ Just like that,” Miller told CNN affiliate WREG. Superintendent Jay Foster doesn’t think the punishment is ridiculous at all, especially after he said he reminded audience members repeatedly to hold their applause until the end of the ceremony. “The goal was to allow all graduates to have the privilege of hearing their name called,” Foster said. So, the reminder was also printed in the program. “I can understand they can escort me out of the graduation, but to say they going to put me in jail for it. What else are they allowed to do?”

Listen I’m not sure if what I’m about to say is racist or not, but it’s just a plain fact that black people love to whoop it up. They whoop it up at comedy clubs, they whoop it up at concerts, they whoop it at dunk contests, they whoop it up at church and they whoop it up at graduation. So when Lakaydra gets her diploma her family is gonna whoop it up.  And if this is a predominately black high school then you got to just let everybody whoop it up. That’s what they do. And I totally agree with the lady they arrested. If the whooping gets too loud just kick them out and leave it at that. Everybody seems to be cool with that compromise. But arresting somebody? Insane.