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TexasTowelie

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Sat May 1, 2021, 06:17 PM May 2021

Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel arrested for battery after physical altercation with student

Kansas state Rep. Mark Samsel was arrested on charges of misdemeanor battery on Thursday after getting into a physical altercation with a student while substitute teaching in Wellsville.

Samsel, 36, was booked into the Franklin County Adult Detention Center after 3:30 p.m. Thursday. He has since been released on $1,000 bond, Sheriff Jeff Richards said.

Superintendent Ryan Bradbury said that Samsel will no longer be allowed to work for the district.

On Wednesday, Samsel, R-Wellsville, was substitute teaching at the Wellsville school district’s secondary school. Throughout the day, high school students began recording videos of the lawmaker talking about suicide, sex, masturbation, God and the Bible.

In one video shared with The Star, Samsel tells students about “a sophomore who’s tried killing himself three times,” adding that it was because “he has two parents and they’re both females.”

It only gets worse: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251069219.html

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Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel arrested for battery after physical altercation with student (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP
arrested for kneeing boy in the crotch Demovictory9 May 2021 #1
What a complete lunatic!!! Beakybird May 2021 #2
The fact that the student wasn't arrested is a sign that progress is being made. abqtommy May 2021 #3
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