The most Tay thing you’ll see today:
BREAKING: @DPSNewsNow Board VP Tay Anderson ticketed for speeding in a school zone.
Like usual, he tries to spin this into being a victim of the police – who caught him (a school board member) speeding 10-14 mph over, in a school zone.https://t.co/X9sJ2HsnQ0 #copolitics
— Jimmy Sengenberger (@SengCenter) September 7, 2022
Everyone’s favorite Denver Public Schools board director, Tay Anderson, has once again fallen victim to The Man through absolutely no fault of his own.
Except, Tay was the only human being driving the car as it speed nearly 14 mph over the speed limit in a school zone at Montbello High School.
Has a Go Fund Me account been established yet to help that poor man?
Has the clarion call been issued to riot and protest what likely is a case of Driving While Vice President of the Freaking School Board and Speeding in a School Zone?
KDVR has the story, in which Tay is the victim, and police the villains for interfering with Tay’s mission to beat 1,200 students and educators to the front door — this being Tay’s imaginary duty as king of all school board members.
God forbid Tay hold himself responsible for failing to allow for adequate time to get to work like everyone else on the planet who was not speeding in a school zone.
Here’s Tay overly dramatic account of the incident:
“Yesterday, while heading to Montbello High School, I was the subject of a traffic stop outside of the building for going over the speed limit by 10 mph as I was trying to get to the school before 1,200 + families and educators arrived on the campus to welcome our scholars back to school alongside my colleagues.
As a Black man in America, I was raised that when you encounter law enforcement, you must remain calm and ensure that your hands are visible at all times. This is because, time and time again, Black Americans have been the ongoing victims of police brutality. I did just that and even asked permission to retrieve my documents to provide to the officer. However, I was disappointed by a comment that the officer made as my hands were raised, and that was him calling police brutality in the Black community a “myth.” I have contacted Denver Police to review the footage to ensure that no other person within our communities is subjected to insensitive remarks like that in the future.
Montbello High School has re-opened for the first time in ten years and serves a majority of students of color. I share the concerns of educators from the community on the optics of police officers being visible outside the school building on the first day of school. I can empathize with the hesitation or fear some students, families, and educators may have experienced. However, I am grateful that educators asked the police officers to leave the front of the school.”
Parents should be outraged that police were told by educators to abandon their posts securing the schools and the roadways, because Tay was busted for violating the speed limit in a school zone.
Of course, it never occurred to Tay that police were there to enforce the school zone speed limit on the first day of school as police tend to do across the entire United States of America on the first day of school.
As annoying as they are, there is a valid reason for the existence of school zones which is to be going at a slow enough speed so as not to kill children.
Nowhere in Tay’s statement did he acknowledge it was wrong to speed in a school zone and endanger children who are crossing the street and not always paying attention to traffic.
Instead, the school board vice president unleashed his usual barrage of inflammatory rhetoric to frighten children and people of color that police might come for them next.
Stay tuned for the video we hope will be released soon to see how Tay was really treated.
Meanwhile, parents of children attending Denver Public Schools can either be relieved, or outraged that police were pulled from protecting their children on the first day of class.