UPDATE: Principal Who Called Cops On Black Parents Over Racism Complaint Faces Karma

0:00 This is an update to a story we brought you. Remember the principal who decided to call um the police on parents who were trying to create remedy for their child and other parents withdrew their children because of it immediately. I said on that show, "Oh, that principal will be gone." Well, that day has come. Put up the picture for mass. Now, this story has a couple of twists and turns, but the update is that Miss Teresa Ra Rost, who's the principal of a Catholic school in Oregon, was fired from a job weeks after she called the police on black parents,

0:46 Mike Phillips and Caris Study. Those are the parents. They were there because they were meeting to address an incident in which their fourth grade son was called the n-word by a classmate. This is a dutiful parenting team. They are both there in order to have a conversation about a bullying incident with a racial context. As a reminder, the Metalene School in Portland, Oregon made headlines earlier this year after Mike Phillips and Caris Studier Phillips

1:31 spoke out about a racial incident. They say it ended in a heated confrontation involving the school's principal, Miss Treesa Rost. The parents said they were called to the school in March after their son's classmate called him the n-word. When they met with the principal, demanded accountability, and pointed to a previous incident involving their older son that they claimed was insufficiently handled. The principal requested the couple to leave the grounds, but when they refused, she called the police. Now, in the 911 recording obtained by KGW, the

2:18 principal can be heard requesting officers presence at the school because of quote parents yelling at employees and refusing to leave. Quote, "Do you know what their names are?" asked a 911 operator. "Oh, no," answered principal Rost. "Okay." "Are they white, black, Hispanic, Asian?" asked the operator. "Uh, second one," replied Roth. She You understand what she They're the second one you named. I'm being listened to right now, right? Right. Okay. Um, that answer

3:06 alone, if you justify to call them the police, they black or whatever race they may be, uh, here are their names. If you're justified, if a crime has taken place and enforcement of the law needs to happen, you will absolutely provide information. She already lies, so she doesn't know their names. Um, this sets it up for random black people to be harassed by the police. by the way. So, the principal requested to stay on the line with the dispatcher as if something dangerous is happening. Okay. Uh and the recording caught snippets of a conversation her her conversation with Phillips with the Phillips family. Quote, "You want to nail me to a cross over and over again, and it's not

3:53 productive." The principal said in the recording, quote, "I'm right here advocating for your child who did come sit in my chair in my office and does trust me." Uh, when a voice in the background says, "He does not." The principal replies, "Okay, that's fine. He acts like he does." End quote. This is what happens when you give a carrier in a professional position of public trust. This individual has failed to recognize that the scenario is not about her negligence. The scenario is about the

4:39 child's safety physically and emotionally. That's what it's actually about. Now, your negligence is a catalyst to this. Yes. However, the goal is the child. Days later, the Phillips son was then expelled, prompting backlash from the school community. The Phillips demanded that the school apologized for the incident, dismiss the principal, and investigate the racial slur, said to their son. Several community members joined their campaign and demanded that the school reenroll the Phillips or Philip's son and amend his policies. The family's petition garnered more than 5,000 signatures.

5:24 Mike Phillips previously told the the Oregonian that Miss Rost, the principal, now one call, was a complete abuse of power. Quote, "You have to understand that a black man having the cops called on him is a totally different implication. It's a complete abuse of power. A look what I have over you. Philip said, quote, you're calling the cops on me and kicking out my son. Because of what he heard, my family's the victim in this. There is no cross you can hide behind. Uh the reason uh he said cross is the religious nature of the Catholic institution. Uh which was well played, sir. And uh he's right. Why are you suspending my son? because he

6:10 overheard what we said. There's no justification for it. So, shortly after the incident, the uh a student uh witness decided to come forward and stated that he did in fact overhear the slur, but the principal diminished the child's claim. Initially, uh it was well, nobody else could corroborate. So, now you have a witness. Uh but the principal decided to diminish uh the witness. When that child's parents met with the principal, she told them she suspected their son had made up the entire incident and recommended that he see a therapist to be deprogrammed from the anti-racist training he received during his previous enrollment at a public school in Portland. I told you this is what happens when you hire Karens in positions of public trust.

6:58 two children, two incidents of bullying. One, well, you got to get expelled now because your parents said something. Second, well, you obviously need need to go see a psychiatrist. You are programmed. You must be woke. It's unclear whether the school has launched an investigation into the racial slur, which this is the part that helps the child. In response to her to her determination, the principal told KPTV she felt quote deeply betrayed by her priest and the arch dasis. I mean, damn, they wrong, too.

7:44 So, she's deeply offended by church leadership here. Neither officials at the uh Medline School nor the arch dasis of Port Portland have responded to the outlet's request for comment on the principal. They will not respond. Um they realize now they were wrong uh in appointing and supporting um such a ridiculous leader. uh no selfawareness, no selfanalysis at all. And still we are unclear if anyone has addressed the thing that hurt the young brother who was called the n-word. And I guarantee it didn't just happened to him. It's a systemic issue. It always is. All right, Jackson, thoughts here.

8:31 Well, this is a perfect opportunity to say bye, Felicia. You know what I'm saying? by principal. Felicia, go ahead and get up out of here. But, um, it's really says a lot that this family was able to get 5,000 signatures for something like this in a school district. You know, this isn't like a public policy type of thing. This isn't, you know, like uh um something about like expanding Medicaid that everybody would be paying attention to. It's hard to get that many signatures. So, that really says a lot. um not just about this case but also um that community's probably overall feelings towards uh principal Felicia as well as uh the school district itself. But I always love uh the opportunity whether it's in my life personally when I make mistakes or when

9:16 people make mistakes with me or anybody the power of my bad, I'm sorry, I made a mistake instead of just no, I got to keep pushing this because I I I can't be wrong about nothing. I'm the one who's in a position of authority. Yeah. But you abusing your authority. And when you do that, people don't really respect you as much. You become a tyrant in a lot of ways. If if if you're not diplomatic, if you're not able to to to be vulnerable about stuff, but I mean, this is this was just unnecessary. Um and again, I think the most powerful thing that shows how wrong she was is the fact that they got 5,000 signatures for this. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously. and um uh noted that uh after she called the police, in my opinion, she should have been fired that day. Uh but it did have to go through

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