VIDEO: Father calls out daughter’s Snapchat bullies

Warning: Video below contains graphic language. Viewer discretion is advised.

A father is taking a unique approach to fight back against the family who is bullying his 14-year-old daughter.

Brad Knudson from Prior Lake, Minnesota, is calling the bullies out on YouTube in a video post on Monday.

In the video, which has been viewed over 1.7 million times, Knudson shares an offensive Snapchat his African-American daughter received. The Snapchat shows two students using a racial slur and calling his daughter sexist names.

“Not only was it bullying, it was racism,” Knudson said, adding he videotaped it from his daughter’s phone after she received three similar videos from the students on New Year’s Eve.

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Knudson said he repeatedly tried to contact the students’ parents by phone and by going to their home. Without luck, he went to the police who took the matter to the school. After an arranged meeting with both families, Knudson received a call from the students’ father who left a racist voicemail.

“I can’t even believe there are individuals like this alive but there are,” Knudson says in the YouTube video after he plays the voicemail.

He then plays a second voicemail in which the caller says, “Hey Brad, you’re a fag. Touch base with your kids. You are a loser.”

School administrators issued a statement saying racism, harassment and bullying is not tolerated. The school district is conducting its own investigation.

The statement says school officials have reached out to Knudson directly to offer support for his daughter.

Knudson claims he threatened to make the Snapchat and voicemails public and the father told him to go ahead, 

The father of the two students has reportedly been let go from his job. Knudson said getting him fired is not what he wanted to happen. He wanted to put the focus on education. 

He and his wife have decided to start a twice monthly forum in Prior Lake to discuss race.

The youtube video can be watched by clicking here. 

-With files from the Canadian Press 

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