Why did the Ledger-Enquirer delete viral video from Columbus, GA, parade. Learn here

We had a situation come up over the weekend, and I wanted to talk to you about what we did and why we did it. We covered the Fountain City Classic Parade, and one of our reporters posted a video to our social platforms. And in that video, we showed the Jordan High School dance team dancing. Well, it ran good for a while. Then, our comments, the comments on that post got hijacked. They were offensive, they were racist, and they were obscene. We made a decision after a couple of hours of monitoring it that we were going to take down the post, eliminate the comments altogether. The reason we did it was you had high school kids who were being attacked. They were being body shamed and they were being attacked in the most vile of racist ways. As the editor and publisher, I felt we needed to get that down and get it down quick. That's why we did it. We made a decision that it didn't meet community standards, the comments, not the content. We hope you'll continue to follow the Ledger Enquirer. We hope you are somebody who reads our website and also follows us on social media. We're doing important work here in this community. We will continue to do that work. But we can't and won't tolerate racist comments on our social media platforms where we're hijacked by the most vile among us.