Racist Online Threats Follow Political Clash At Cass High School

CARTERSVILLE, GA — A Hartwell man who authorities say taunted a Cass High School student with racist online messages will face charges in Bartow County of terroristic threats, harassing phone calls and cruelty to children.

Jacob Clifford Scarborough, 18, was arrested Monday following an investigation into an Aug. 26 online incident, according to Sheriff Clark Millsap as reported by WBHF Community Radio.

A representative of the Hart County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Patch Tuesday that Scarborough had been arrested in Hartwell and was being taken to the Bartow County Jail.

Scarborough is alleged to have sent malicious Snapchat and Instagram messages to a juvenile victim who had been expelled after a disruptive political demonstration at Cass High School on Aug. 24.

According to authorities, Scarborough threatened to harm the juvenile upon returning to school and threatened to harm Blacks. Scarborough also made what WBHF referred to as “derogatory racial slurs.” The Cartersville radio station reported that Scarborough has no known ties to the Bartow County School System or its students.

Scarborough’s arrest followed an informal demonstration on Aug. 24 just before classes at Cass when students supporting President Donald Trump clashed with those who didn't.

Video of the confrontation — which started with students holding Trump signs and ended when one of them allegedly poured chewing tobacco spit on a biracial student — later went viral on social media, according to WAGA-TV.

Nadia Hall responded by hitting the student in question, and the fight began. She admitted to the Atlanta TV station that she had poured water on the same student the day before because he was wearing a Trump T-shirt.

Several parents told WAGA-TV they felt it was inappropriate to wear Trump paraphernalia at school.

"They had organized this to see how black students would react,” Danyelle Jackson, the mother of a Cass student, said to WAGA-TV. “They planned to wear MAGA hats, T-shirts and hold Trump banners, but they were calling people the N-word too.”

Three students were disciplined.

A spokesperson for Bartow County schools later told media outlets that the incident was “not a Trump rally, rather an isolated incident that happened before school this morning. This type of behavior, which distracts from the learning environment, is not and will not be tolerated on school grounds.”

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