The busted dad who thwarted a Black school superintendent from shaking hands with his high school graduate daughter during commencement told police it was based on his past mistreatment.
"I didn’t want him to be able to shake her f------- hand because he did not deserve it after all the s--- she went through in this district," the Baraboo High School teenage student's father Matt Eddy said in an interrogation video obtained by The Daily Mail.
The 49-year-old dad swooped into a queue of administrators greeting the recent alumni walking across the stage and ushering him away from his daughter, whose face appeared horrified.
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"That's my daughter," Eddy yelped, "I don't want her touching him."
Eddy told police that superintendent Dr. Rainey Briggs wronged his daughter first, and therefore didn't deserve to shake her hand.
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"The way he acted when my daughter was charged, almost charged, was a bunch of b-------," he said, according to The Mail, adding, "he shook his head and rolled his f------- eyes. I’m not cool with him shaking my daughter’s hand after he treated her the way he did."
While the footage shows him making contact with Briggs, the father suggests he was physically provoked.
"I didn't touch him until he touched me," he said in the interview.
The school district, which has faced repeated problems with racism and antisemitism, held its graduation Friday. The father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, Wisconsin News reported.
The father didn't appear to specify the exact reason why he harbored such animosity toward Briggs, but suggested a legal situation involving his daughter being expelled precipitated it.
"She was expelled for doing the same thing that was done to her… there was a meeting with him," Eddy explained.
It appears the way Briggs handled that situation left Eddy raw.
"He was rolling his eyes when I brought up the fact that the same thing had been done to her and it p----- me off because we’re in the middle of a court case."
Since the incident, Briggs filed a restraining order against Eddy.
And Dane County Circuit Court Commissioner J. Alberto Quiroga ordered Eddy to avoid contact with Briggs until his next hearing on June 14.
