Obama policy adviser ‘called autistic Native American man a “weetard” for wearing a Redskins sweater, spat in his face and then beat him so badly he needed THREE surgeries’
- Barrett Dahl, 28, said William Mendoza assaulted him in October 2015
- He says the Dept of Education appointee hated his Redskins sweater
- Mendoza insulted, spat on and then assaulted him, he says
- Dahl was left with a black eye, broken teeth and a fractured arm
- Mendoza says Dahl swung the first punch before they tussled
- Dahl says $40,000 medical bills could mean foreclosure for his parents
- Both Dahl and Mendoza are Native Americans
William Mendoza allegedly insulted, spat on and assaulted Dahl. Mendoza is a Native Affairs expert in the Department of Education; both he and Dahl are Native American
Mendoza is of the Oglala-Sicangu Lakota people, and an appointee dealing with Native American affairs in the Department of Education.
He is an opponent of organizations like the Redskins using Native American people as mascots.
Dahl, from Oregon, is part of the Sac and Fox Nation. He said he wore a sweater with the team’s controversial logo because he felt ‘cultural pride’ while at the Pow Wow on October 30 last year.
“He saw my shirt, and it set him off. From the minute he saw it, he had an agenda,” Dahl said, according to KFOR-TV.
“He comes to me and says you’re a ‘weetard’ for wearing a Redskins shirt. He says where are you from that you’re such a ‘weetard’ you don’t understand that you’re offending me? I tell him I’m from Oklahoma,” he continued.
“He spits right in my face. The boy sitting next to me sees it. He doesn’t say anything. So, I get up and leave the ballroom to get the police,” Dahl said.
However, Mendoza wasn’t finished with Dahl. The Obama appointee, who is also a Native American, followed him out into the hall and allegedly beat him.
Dahl says that he incurred $40,000 in medical bills and required three surgeries for a fractured arm, broken teeth and a black eye.
Mendoza claimed that he followed Dahl out into the hall to apologize and that Dahl threw a cup of coffee in his face, thus starting the fight. This still doesn’t explain how he had to undergo three surgeries while we have no evidence that Mendoza suffered anything for what he did — physically or financially
“What bothers me the most about this, first off, we’ve lost everything we have and he’s lost nothing. He’s kept his job, his home, his family. And, second off, there’s not a doubt in my mind that this person would do the same thing to a young child who was wearing a Redskins shirt,” Dahl said.
Keep in mind that Mendoza doesn’t deny bullying an autistic kid for wearing a Redskins shirt. He also, nearest I can tell from the story, doesn’t deny spitting on him (although Mendoza’s lawyer did release a wonderfully vague statement calling Dahl’s allegations “false and defamatory and … completely contradicted by multiple third-party, unbiased witnesses,” all of whom were conveniently unavailable for KFOR’s story).
Even if what Mendoza said was true — that he had followed Dahl out into the hallway to apologize — it would be perfectly legitimate for someone who had just been assaulted to assume that someone following them after they tried to escape from the assault was going to continue the assault. This is doubly true when you consider that the victim was autistic.
For his part, Dahl — a member of the Sac and Fox Nation — claimed that Mendoza’s story is a lie.
I hate to pass judgment on something that hasn’t gone through the court system, but it’s hard to explain away an encounter that ended with fractured bones, broken teeth and a black eye for one participant and no injuries for the other, and then to say that the latter participant is the wronged party.
This is doubly true when you consider that the wronged party more or less admits starting this through his politically correct bullying.
Furthermore, where is the media on this one? If Mendoza were a Republican appointee, CNN would devote a week’s programming to what happened. It would take on the moniker “Redskins-gate.”
Don Lemon would host a panel where a variety of people would opine on whether Mendoza should just get 10 years in jail or whether he should be given a show trial and then put before a firing squad. Anderson Cooper would have an episode of “360” that was just him weeping quietly into the camera for the entire hour.
If you beat up an autistic college student, I don’t care who you are: I think you should be suspended without pay until the situation is resolved, and I also think you should probably be pressured into resigning by the powers that be. This is especially true if your bullying is what started the altercation in both versions of the story.
I don’t care whether you were appointed by a Republican, Democrat, Whig, Libertarian, Know-Nothing or whatever party that “Deez Nuts” guy is running under.
William Mendoza has got to go. The fact that he’s being sheltered by the Obama administration is an abomination.
H/T WZ
http://conservativetribune.com/obama-appointee-redskins-jersey/