Woman asked to leave Texas high school football game over KKK shirt

School administrators earlier this month asked a woman to leave a Texas high school football game after she refused to cover up her t-shirt, which bore an image of a Ku Klux Klan member alongside the words "Fetch the rope."

Officials in Quinlan, Texas, said the woman was attending a Sept. 8 football game at Hobart Lytal Memorial stadium when several members of the crowd made school administration aware of her t-shirt. Officials called the t-shirt "offensive, portraying violence, and threatening."

When the woman refused to turn the shirt inside out to obscure the image, school administrators asked her to leave the stadium. Officials say she left willingly.

Members of the community addressed the incident this week at a Board of Trustees meeting.

An African-American member of the Quinlan community and Ford High School alumnus said that he’d seen several angry posts about the incident on social media, but that he had “nothing but appreciation for the way that situation was handled.”

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