A North Carolina high school student was denied his diploma for wearing a Mexican flag over his graduation gown.
The teen was denied his diploma after walking across the graduation stage draped in a Mexican flag.
Livestreamed video footage from the ceremony shows the principal ask him to take the flag off. After an unsuccessful attempt to take it off, he was handed his diploma holder, which the other students also received. But after walking across the stage, he was denied his actual diploma. The incident has sparked outrage and led to a protest outside the school Friday. However, the school district insists that Lopez's actions"violated the ceremony's dress code" and"the incident is not about the Mexican flag."A student wears a Mexican flag over his graduation gown at his graduation ceremony, in an image taken from video provided by graduation attendee Adolfo Hurtado.
"It means everything to me," Lopez told ABC News of wearing the Mexican flag."My parents, my whole family, is from over there. I did it for them because they had a rough childhood; they didn't get the scholarship that I got, or they didn't get to go to school like I did. So ... representing my flag and getting a diploma was really important to me because I was basically doing it for my family.
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