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An assistant principal at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach was arrested Wednesday along with his older brother after an off-duty Norfolk police officer overheard the two men openly discussing plans to attack federal immigration agents and other law enforcement officers while eating pho last Friday night.
Yes, two grown men, one of them in a position of authority over teenagers, allegedly hashing out violent fantasies in a strip-mall Vietnamese restaurant like it was the weather.
John W. Bennett, 54, who has worked in the Virginia Beach school system since 2009, and his 59-year-old brother Mark B. Bennett were taken into custody at Norfolk International Airport. According to court documents cited by ABC13, the conversation the off-duty officer overheard included Mark Bennett complaining that ICE agents were "kidnapping individuals," talking about flying to Las Vegas to meet "like-minded individuals," and coming back with "enforcement ideas and plans." He had already bought a ticket for November 19.
Mark Bennett also reportedly bragged about recently purchasing an assault rifle, whose rounds could penetrate body armor and said he wanted to "go hunting." His brother, the assistant principal, allegedly endorsed the idea and expressed interest in tagging along to Vegas.
Both men now face one count each of conspiracy to commit malicious wounding. They posted $25,000 bond Thursday and are out on GPS monitors with orders to have no contact with each other. John Bennett has been placed on leave by the school district.
Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul W. Neudigate didn’t mince words: "These allegations of violence against law enforcement, the very ones who protect and serve our communities, are incredibly alarming."
Of course it's alarming.
This comes as ICE reports a 1,000 percent increase in assaults on its personnel since President Trump took office and began the largest deportation operation in modern American history.
We've already seen an anti-ICE gunman open fire on a Dallas-area detention facility in September, killing two detainees before turning the gun on himself. In another incident in North Texas, alleged Antifa militants reportedly used fireworks as a distraction on July 4 before ambushing agents, one of the shooters later shot a local police officer in the neck from the woods.
Look, reasonable people can argue about immigration policy all day long, but when a public-school administrator is allegedly caught on the cusp of joining what sounds like a domestic terror cell aimed at federal agents doing their lawful jobs, we have crossed a very dark line.
Parents in Virginia Beach have every right to be furious, and every right to demand answers about how someone with this kind of alleged hatred was put in a position of trust over their children.
Look, reasonable people can argue about immigration policy all day long, but when a public-school administrator is allegedly caught on the cusp of joining what sounds like a domestic terror cell aimed at federal agents doing their lawful jobs, we have crossed a very dark line.
Parents in Virginia Beach have every right to be furious, and every right to demand answers about how someone with this kind of alleged hatred was put in a position of trust over their children.
But what is worse, teachers are influencing these kids to hate the country, hate the law, and question their sexual orientation.
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