What a Country!
Froylan Camelo says he and other students took Mexican flags with them to Idaho's Minico High School to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. But Camelo says teacher Clint Straatham took his flag from him, threw it in a trash can and taunted him. Straatham denies taunting Camelo. He says he took the flag from him to keep white students from hurting him. And what about tossing it in garbage can? Straatham says he had no other place to put it.
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