Texas man arrested after getting into fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE

[demmiblue]

A 45-year-old Texas man was arrested Tuesday on assault charges after getting into a physical altercation with a student who participated in an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement walkout protest, police said.

Earlier this week, students at Moe and Gene Johnson High School, located in Buda, Texas, walked out of classes in protest of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement.

While the protest was largely peaceful, a verbal altercation between an adult man in a vehicle and a female juvenile on the sidewalk escalated into physical violence, according to video of the incident posted online, shared by CBS Austin.

The man, Chad Michael Watts, allegedly got out of his vehicle and confronted the female juvenile, resulting in an exchange of punches. After Watts pushed the girl to the ground, other students began attacking him, the video shows.

Watts was arrested nearly a day after the incident and charged with two counts of assault causing bodily injury, the Buda Police Department said. The Hays County District Attorney said it was investigating the matter as well.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/texas-man-fight-student-ice-protest-b2913866.html

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T18:18:25.707Z

[underpants]

1. MAGA is feral at this point.

[Probatim]

2. They crossed that bridge somewhere in the first months of Obama's first term.

I think the next step is fecal fingerpainting on sidewalks.

[underpants]

5. They sort of did that in the Capital on Jan. 6th

[MineralMan]

3. I see that he chose to attack high school girls.

Maybe he thought they wouldn't fight back. But, surprise! They did. He ended up on the ground and finally took off. Police caught him somewhat later. The video in the OP makes that quite clear.

Pick on a girl, eh? Well, maybe that's not so smart, eh?

[obamanut2012]

4. Not allegedly, it's on several videos, it's a fact

Taken by several of the kids. He left his truck in the busy street, ran and attacked a small girl, threw her down into a ditch and kept punching her. Two girls immediately helped her, he hit all of them, then boys got involved, some bigger than him, and they swarmed him. Some kids made the others let him leave, then he gets in his truck and SMART MOUTHS THE KIDS AGAIN. I think they would have seriously injured him if some of the girls hadn't made them let him leave.

Then asshole went home and shaved his head and facial hair! COWARD.

he was okay beating up little girls, didn't like it when bigger boys got him.

[multigraincracker]

6. Surprised he didn't get kicked in the nuts. Any adult that attacks a girl deserves that.

[Grokenstein]

7. "Deer Prezidint Tump, Pleez I Can Haz Parrdun?"

"And pleez send Natzi Gard to shute dese littul shitz 4 a tacking mee, Luv U, Sinceerly, Chud"

EDIT: Oh, of COURSE:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott also condemned the student protests while sharing an article that stated two juveniles in Hays County were arrested for possession of alcohol and resisting arrest. Law enforcement officials said those arrests had nothing to do with the protests.

But Abbott used the article to call the protests “disruptive” and assert that school staff should be treated as “co-conspirators” in “criminal behavior.”

“We are also looking into stripping the funding of schools that abandon their duty to teach our kids the curriculum required by law,” Abbott said.

[Snarkoleptic]

8. Assault and battery on children - stay classy, magats.

n/t