Woke mob cancels incoming UTenn cheerleader

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• In 2016, 15-year-old Groves gets her license and fires up Snapchat. She rattles off “I can drive ni–ers” and hits send

• The video circulates around the Loudoun County school district with typical Snapchat attention, but that’s the end of it. People go on with their lives

• Ms. Groves completes her freshman, sophomore, and junior years without the video causing problems

• Groves enters her senior year, things are going well. She’s the varsity cheer captain and headed to the University of Tennessee to join the Vols cheerleading team

• At some point during the 2019-20 school year, Jimmy Galligan receives the video and he decides to keep it in his pocket

• In June 2020, as the George Floyd news breaks, Groves takes to Instagram and urges “people to ‘protest, donate, sign a petition, rally, do something’ in support of the Black Lives Matter movement,” according to the New York Times.

• “You have the audacity to post this, after saying the N-word,” someone writes on her post

• Galligan deploys the 2016 video of Groves

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Tennessee told Groves she wouldn’t be welcomed at the school.

Galligan, happy with the results, told the Times he had zero regrets. “If I never posted that video, nothing would have ever happened,” he said. And because the internet never forgets, the clip will always be available to watch.

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“I’m going to remind myself, ‘You started something. You taught someone a lesson.’”

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