Bethel School District wrestling coach fired over social media post about George Floyd

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Source: KIRO 7

The Bethel School District told KIRO 7 on Thursday that it has fired a first-year high school wrestling coach after investigating a social media post that showed him on the ground with a knee on the back of his neck as he smiles and gives a thumbs-up.

"We have completed our investigation. Dave Hollenbeck is no longer employed by the Bethel School District. His behavior was not consistent with our equity initiatives and nondiscrimination policies,” said district spokesman Doug Boyles.

The post was in reference to George Floyd, who died Monday after Minneapolis police pinned him to the ground with a knee to the neck. Viral video showed Floyd pleading that he could not breathe.


“This is for all the race baiters and people that don’t What (sic) they’re talking about when they’re saying that this could kill you,” read the Facebook post, which appeared to have since been deleted from the coach Dave Hollenbeck’s page.

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Next stop for coach Hollenbeck Fox News or some "christian school of college."

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Alarming that he thought it a good idea at the time

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not only is he an awful person, he's a stupid person

for posting evidence of his awfulness on social media. The good thing about social media is that it lets us know who the awful people are.

[Stallion]

3. The Unemployed Need to Watch the News for Job Openings These Days

kind of like the reports of New Yorkers reading obituaries for rent controlled apartments

Oh well I guess some deserved unemployed wrestling coach will be tickled to take his job

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Maybe he can ask Gym Jordan for a reference. n/t

[Aristus]

18. See who gets fired, then apply for their job. Smart.

It reminds me of a joke I heard once that took place on the home front in World War II. The housing shortage was a nightmare, and people were going to outlandish lengths to obtain lodging. A guy was walking by the river when he saw someone drowning. He rushed to the water's edge and asked for the man's name and address. The drowning man told him, then sank beneath the surface. Our guy rushes to the address and asks to rent the spare room, telling the owner "Your lodger just drowned in the river." The owner replied "I'm sorry, sir; you're too late. The room was just rented by the man who pushed him in."

[dware]

4. LOL,

when are these fucking idiots going to learn that putting shit like this on the internet where anyone can see it is a very bad idea?

I guess in a way, it's a good thing, that way we get to know who the racist assholes are.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. In order to understand it is a bad idea

One must know it is wrong. They think they are right, so why not share their “rightness”.

[relayerbob]

17. Hopefully, they'll never learn

IT makes it that much easier to catch when they openly out themselves

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Gym Jordan will probably reach out to him shortly.

[progree]

6. A knee pinning the neck to the ground can't kill you???????? Seriously??????

“This is for all the race baiters and people that don’t What (sic) they’re talking about when they’re saying that this could kill you,” read the Facebook post,

[LiberalFighter]

7. Why did they even hire him? Being a "professional wrestler" is not the same.

[canuckledragger]

8. It's funny that those that use the term 'race-baiting'

...are pretty much always the ones 'race-baiting' themselves, while pretending they're not racist.

Because it's fucking always projection with conservatives

[icymist]

9. That guy is an idiot.

F - em'

[rpannier]

11. Next stop is likely GoFundMe

[47of74]

12. My words of wisdom to this coach.

Bed.

Made.

Lie.

Go fuck yourself.

[Cha]

16. that's what I said.. he's learned NOTHING.

[Talitha]

14. Good. What a damn fool.

[Cha]

15. GOOD! NOW FO.. Dave Hollenbeck..

[Collimator]

19. So George Floyd isn't dead?

If it wasn't a knee to the neck what was it? And the idiot posting that picture is missing the larger point.

The police killed a person with excessive force. They were not defending their lives in a shoot out or dealing with a meth-enhanced machete-wielding super-villain. A man is dead at the hands of law enforcement personnel whose motto is supposed to be "Serve and Protect".

A man is dead because he is black. By and large, the police in this country do not believe that black lives matter, and the courts and our elected officials are behaving in the same way by not holding them accountable.

[FreddyWhite]

20. so glad to see some justice

These people have become so embolden. I bet he's an asshole of a coach. Who knows how many kids were getting hazed and bullied by him. Seriously, firing a coach with this poor of judgment is the best thing for that school district