That was three days after another man and I were kicked out of the January 25th school board meeting room and put on Trespass Notice. The person who started the whole thing (Pamela Davis, wife of the superintendent and a teacher at Blythewood High School) apparently got a pass from Richland 2 security officers and security chief Marq Claxton.
Of course they gave Pamela Davis and Baron Davis passes. If they had not, they would have been unemployed the next day.
Pamela Davis got a real softball interview with WIS-TV. Watch that interview here.
The interview (notice the nice setting. Where was that?) opened with an off-camera female voice saying, "Pam Davis says she was only at the meeting as support for her husband who had a medical issue* at a recent meeting. She says, when she arrived, the student and the two men involved in the confrontation were already there. She says, when one of the men approached her at her seat, she made it clear she did not want to talk. She said she never directed profanity to any of them."
Off-camera reporter: "So what did you say?"
Pamela Davis: "I said, when I was engaged by one of the gentlemen that approached me. I was interacting with him. The student made a comment towards me. I can't really say what it was. Umm. But I looked at the student and said, 'You are a child. You don't need to speak to me.' And that's what I said. That's all I said to him. He didn't respond. .He didn't say anything else to me. And that was it."
Off-camera reporter: "Now regarding the confrontation with the two men, Mrs. Davis said she was very uncomfortable when they approached her because one of the men had sent what she viewed as threatening emails to her husband."
Pamela Davis: "I was feeling intimidated. I felt treatened. I felt targeted. Because I was minding my business. I was sitting quietly like I always do. I've seen those men there together many times. I've never said anything to them. They've never said anything to me."
Off-camera reporter: "Mrs. Davis said it was actually one of the men who called security over after she refused to answer their questions and that one of the men had already been escorted out of the meeting when her husband got involved."
Judi Gatson: "Now tonight we are also hearing from one of the men who was kicked out of the meeting. Our Lauren Adams joins us live outside of the school district office. Lauren, I know he told you that he was attempting to introduce himself to Mrs. Davis."
Lauren Adams: "Yeah, that's right, Judi, He said he was only trying to introduce himself to the superintendent's wife, but two board members say it goes much deeper than that."
Off-camera reporter: "Video from the board meeting Tuesday does not show the verbal fight beforehand. It started when Gus Philpott introduced himself to the superintendent's wife, Pamela Davis.
WIS-TV then broadcast the interview of Lauren Adams with me. (2:12)
Then WIS-TV also broadcast interviews in front of R2i2 with Teresa Holmes (2:43), who said, "It is about the election..." and with James Manning (2:55), who, the off-camera reporter said, "Philpott is always questioning the board."
SEE separate, following blogposts about those interviews.
* Recovery from that "medical issue" was so fast and complete that it didn't keep Supt. Davis from being in Charleston on Friday morning to speak at the South Carolina Alliance of Black School Educators (SCABSE) Winter Conference at 9:10AM. Did she go there with him?
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