 into the incident that happened on Monday, October 31. Students at Jones circulated photos and videos of the incident on Twitter and TikTok, which subsequently attracted national attention. In one video, the student can be seen goose-step marching across a cafeteria table for a Halloween costume contest. When he arrived at the end of the table, the student turned and appeared to perform a Nazi salute to the crowd. Many students in the crowd can be heard booing and jeering the student throughout the incident. at the end of the school day, a costume contest was held during a free period. david signed up and was allowed to walk on the stage, where he did the nazi goosewalk as well as the nazi salute (video below). the principal pulled him aside (photo) to talk to him about his outfit. pic.twitter.com/5W2ZMO9Okw— alex (@tmg__alex) November 4, 2022 After students began complaining, Principal Powers sent an email to the school's staff insisting it was a misunderstanding. 'One of our students wore an East German (communist era) border guard uniform probably from the 1980s, before the reunification of Germany in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I saw guards on the other side of the wall dressed this way when I visited West Berlin in the 1980s,' Powers wrote. However, the student allegedly told his peers earlier that the uniform was from the 1940s. Others pointed out that the student has a history of racially insensitive comments. In a second email sent on Wednesday to the entire student body, Powers apologized for the 'discomfort' the costume caused some students, but appeared to double down on the assertion that it was not racist or anti-Semitic: 'Please be ass){kind=link}
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A high school principal was suspended after he defended a student who came to classes on Halloween dressed as a German soldier and gave his peers a Nazi salute.
Joseph Powers, the principal of Jones College Prep High School, was removed from his duties pending an investigation by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) into the incident that happened on Monday, October 31.
Students at Jones circulated photos and videos of the incident on Twitter and TikTok, which subsequently attracted national attention.
In one video, the student can be seen goose-step marching across a cafeteria table for a Halloween costume contest. When he arrived at the end of the table, the student turned and appeared to perform a Nazi salute to the crowd.