Police are investigating an anti-Semitic video that satirizes the controversial prom photo and features edited photos of Baraboo High School students and staff.
According the Baraboo city administrator Edward Geick, the video was posted on Monday on the social networking site minds.com, which pays users for their contributions with crypto-currency.
According the Baraboo News Republic, the 7-minute video titled “Those Baraboo Nazis” and was posted by the user “BarabooAryans,” and had more than 1,800 views by 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and was removed shortly after.
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Baraboo Police Chief Mark Schauf said the video featured heavily edited photos of Baraboo High School students and staff “turned into kind of a puppet caricature or ventriloquist type thing, with the mouth moving to a script analog.”
“The video itself is quite shocking,” Schauf said. In a statement, Geick said the photos in the video “were edited to make it appear that those targeted in the video were talking and propagating violence.”.
It comes about month after a controversial photo surfaced showing dozens of Baraboo High School students giving what appears to be a Nazi salute before prom.
The Baraboo News Republic reports the video warns viewers to stay home on Dec. 18, the day when the school district has planned a full day of peace assemblies for students as part of a plan to respond to the viral photo.
In addition to the video, Schauf said flyers that were “anti-Semitic in nature” were found posted Monday morning on the exterior of Baraboo’s Jack Young Middle School.
The department is investigating both the video and the flyers, he said, and is working with the district attorney to issue search warrants.
The Baraboo School District, which serves about 3,000 students, had not responded to request for comment at the time of publication.
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