An Ohio former high school football player is suing the Canton City School District over allegations that his head coach forced him to eat pizza soaked in pepperoni grease, violating his religious beliefs, as punishment for missing a team workout.
The $4 million federal suit was filed in the Ohio Northern District Court on Dec. 29 by the family of the ex-McKinley High School student — a Black Hebrew Israelite, identified in court documents as “K.W.,” who is forbidden from eating pork or its residue. The suit claims that the student’s civil rights were violated when head coach Marcus Wattley threatened to cut him from the roster unless he consumed the pizza in front of his teammates while they lifted weights.
Last year, according the local newspaper The Repository, K.W.’s allegations prompted the firing of Marcus Wattley and several assistant coaches. At a press conference in June, K.W.’s father, Kenny Walker, and his lawyer, Ed Gilbert, threatened to sue the district but began settlement negotiations. Those have since broken down, the Repository said, prompting the recent filing.
Canton City School District Superintendent Jeff Talbert, also named as a defendant in the suit, told the paper Saturday that the family’s claims are “without merit” and will be addressed “through the legal process.”
K.W. has since transferred to another school district over backlash surrounding the incident, according to the lawsuit. (c) The Algemeiner Journal
Nu, did it taste good at least?
Was it good?
Yes, I remember his Dad, Kenny Walker. He was a pretty decent basketball player.
There is nothing Israelite about these so-called “Black Hebrew Israelites”. These feeble-minded mental-midgets are a bunch of pretentious black-supremacist racists who really hate Am Yisroel to such an extent that they are willing to proclaim themselves “tha reawl jeuws”, just like the chutzpadik “onu Yisroel” by many other goyim before them, starting with yavanim forcing the translation of Torah and going forward to the replacement ideology of xchianity and islam. Don’t call these black-racists fakes anything “Hebrew” or “Israelite”; they are 100% goyim gemurim, who are full of hate towards the real Israelites.
And if he wouldn’t have eaten it, would they have killed him or just kicked him out of the game?
Was the pizza soaked with toxic faxine?
Will $4 million get his neshama back?
The real issue is, the pizza was not chalav yisroel. My Rebbe told me that if I continue to eat chalav stam after marriage, I’m a lowlife mushchus Mithras.
While it’s always good to hear a story where accountability wins, which makes one glad the coaches were fired for their ridiculous form of “punishment”, let’s not conflate any Jewish victory into the story. As another commenter noted, there’s nothing Jewish about these guys, and chicken nuggets substitute would not have changed anything for a real Jew, as would the problem of just plain pizza not being kosher. I’m not sure these are points the defense can use against the 4 million dollar lawsuit…