Mayor Moises Rodrigues was told that an interaction he had with the woman’s daughter during a parade made her “uncomfortable,” his office tells PEOPLE
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- Moises Rodrigues, the mayor of Brockton, Mass., has been served with a harassment prevention order after a woman made allegations against him during a high school graduation ceremony
- The woman shouted, “You know what you did to my daughter,” to Rodrigues before she was escorted away
- The mayor was told that an interaction he had with a student during Brockton’s Huntington Day Parade on May 22 made the student feel “uncomfortable,” his office said
The mayor of a Massachusetts city has been served with a harassment prevention order after a woman made allegations against him during a high school graduation ceremony.
Video footage from Brockton High School’s graduation on Saturday, June 6, posted to YouTube seems to show a woman shouting at Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues, “You have to f—ing get out of here, you know what you did to my daughter,” before being escorted away as she continued to scream at the mayor. According to The Enterprise, the woman was not arrested.
Rodrigues’ office said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE that he was approached during the city’s annual Huntington Day Parade, which honors fallen veterans, on May 22.
According to his office, he was told that an interaction he had had with a student during the parade made the student “uncomfortable.” “Upon learning of this concern, Mayor Rodrigues fully cooperated with Brockton Public Schools and continues to do so,” the statement read…