TORONTO – A gruesome and bizarre image at a Texas high school has police looking for answers after students and staff discovered a dead pig hoisted atop the school flag pole Thursday morning.
“It was like me and my friends was just walking and then looked up and said ‘oh, there’s a pig,’” Marcus Logan, a student at West Brook High School in Beaumont, Texas, told KFDM News.
According to police, surveillance cameras at the high school captured three to four males arriving at the school the night before in a pickup truck.
Footage shows them hoisting the pig, which Beaumont Animal Services later discovered had been shot in the head, atop the flagpole.
“It was very horrifying because it was blood dripping from the pig on the flagpole,” Alexus Johnson, another West Brook High School student, said.
It’s not known at this time if the men responsible were students at the school. The Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) says they’re investigating whether one of their students was involved.
“If the incident is the action of BISD’s students disciplinary measures will be taken in accordance with the district’s Student Code of Conduct handbook,” a district spokesperson told local media.
Perhaps the biggest question is why someone would choose to hoist a pig on the flagpole, and what message they were hoping to convey, if any.
“That’s demented. I never know somebody to do that,” Venus Logan, a West Brook High School parent, said.
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