Little Miami High School students Brady Williams and Jarad Bently share the story on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Ainsley two high school
Ainsley, two high school
football players briefly
suspended from their team,
aftercare, iting first responder
flags out on the field before
Patriot night, which was on
September eleven,
the game on that night.
The flags were honoring, their
dads one is a firefighter. The
other is a sheriffs deputy.
The teams have since been
reinstated on the team and
joining us. Now are those two
students, Brady Williams and Jaro
D: Bentley,
hey guys, thanks for being with
us,
thanks for having us
Ainsley youre welcome, okay,
Brady. What happened
me and Jarod? We wanted to
carry our flags to honor the
first responders who were
running from it nineteen years ago, and
we were told no and we kind of
took that to heart and we still
wanted to honor them, and so we
did DOT D
Ainsley so Jarod. What was that
conversation like were told by
the School board theres going
to be consequences? Well, do it
anyway
yeah, basically
Ainsley? What did your dad say?
My dad liked the idea?
Ainsley hes, the firefighter
and Brady your dad? Is the deputy
right,
correct
Ainsley. So what did they say
after the team? After you were
suspended from the team?
There is a big blowup which
obviously you guys have seen.
They just said that they were
happy for us and stood behind us.
They appreciate what we did
and we have a lot of supporters.
So
Ainsley you have a lot of
supporters, im sure the majority
of our viewers Jarod. What made
you want to do this? Why were you
so proud to run out there on the
field?
Because if it was my dad
that had died, trying to save
those people id want someone
to honor him in that way as well
Ainsley, if your dad had died on
nine slash, eleven well thats pretty powerful
Brady? What was the reason? Why
would the school board say? I
understand that if its
something political- but this is
the american flag,
so we werent told no to the
american flag because we
carry that out every game.
We were just told no to the thin
blue line and thin red line
Ainsley because they say thats
political.
I cant speak for them.
I can only speak for myself, so
I dont know why they said no
Ainsley okay, so this was the
quote from the Board of
education.
They did not obtain permission
from district officials to do
this. School administrators must
act when students break the
rules and these students
were suspended from practice.
While the incident was
investigated,
the results show there were no
political motivations behind the
display of support for first
responders on nine slash eleven, but there
were stances of in subordination
so Jarod. What do you say to the
critics of you guys who say? Look
these are the rules. You got to
stick to the rules,
all right, yeah. We broke
the rules, but we did it to
honor those who died nineteen years
ago. So in our eyes we think we
did the right thing.
Ainsley was it worth it Brady,
one hundred percent?
If I would have had the chance
to do it again, I would
Ainsley Brady. What does your
dad mean to you?
He means everything
I look up to hip. I love what he
does. I have said since a kid I
want to be a more and now I want
to be one even more
Ainsley. As a parent im sure
hes smiling right now, thats a
sweet message:
Jarod whats your message to
your dad
that im proud of what he
does and that I want to be just
like him:
Ainsley thats, really sweet. I
hope you all know how much your
dads sacrifice, not only for
their family, but for our
country. They are out there
protecting us and were grateful
im raising a daughter in New
York City and the law
enforcement officers are heros
because they are keeping us all
safe.
Thanks guys and please go hug
your dads for us,
we will
Ainsley. Okay, God bless you.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-16.