(East Bay Times) Three years after a high school student was accused of showing a video some claimed was racist and insensitive when he ran for student body president, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District has settled a $665,000 lawsuit and will issue him an apology.
Nathaniel Yu had his student body president title stripped away his junior year in May 2017 when he posted a James Bond-style video on his Twitter account. The video caused a stir within the community and on social media as critics said it depicted armed students as “Muslim terrorists” and was insensitive and lewd. Tensions rose when more than 50 people spoke out about the video during a school board meeting at the time.
After Yu sued, school officials reinstated his student body president title. That action triggered hundreds of students at San Ramon Valley High to walk out of class in protest.
