Students Wore 'White Lives Matter' Shirts. Their School Won't Talk About It.

A screenshot of a Snapchat allegedly showing students at Montgomery Area High School in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, wearing White Lives Matter T-shirts on the last day of school. (Image courtesy of source)Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.Students from a tiny high school in rural Pennsylvania wore “White Lives Matter” shirts to their last day of classes, according to a Snapchat shared with VICE News, as well as interviews with community members. And the school allegedly hasn’t addressed the students’ behavior in any meaningful way. “They were sent home from school. It was the LAST DAY. There were NO other repercussions. They even went to prom the very next night,” one source told VICE News in an email. “Some of them are seniors going off to represent OUR school and town.”In the photo, five Montgomery Area High School students are lined up in front of a background of trucks while wearing white T-shirts with “White Lives Matter” scrawled across the front in black lettering that appears to be handwritten. One, who’s rocking a mullet, is flipping off the camera.“One of the most disrespectful things I’ve ever seen happen in Montgomery,” reads the caption of the Snapchat,…
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