A first-year wrestling coach in Oregon’s Bethel School District is under investigation for social media posts he made defending Minneapolis police.

The post came in response to video of the arrest of George Floyd, which showed Floyd begging to breathe with an officer’s knee on his neck while handcuffed. Floyd later died and the four officers involved in his arrest were fired, but the incident nonetheless sparked riots in the streets.

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“Not dead yet I’m doing this for Are police offices the media is a race baiting machine and I’m tired of it I’m going to speak out every time if you don’t like that I’m sorry but I love All people..Wake up America,” Bethel wrestling coach Dave Hollenbeck wrote in the Facebook post, which included a picture of him on a tile floor with a knee on his neck.

“This is for all the race baiters and people that don’t What they’re talking about when they’re saying that this could kill you,” he wrote.

Jay Davenport, a parent in the school district, was livid over the post.

“There is no reasonable rationale for him to post anything like that,” Davenport told KIROeag. “It’s about humanity, it’s about integrity; that post lacks both.”

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Davenport said he has “no tolerance” for Hollenback’s perspective.

“You have young impressionable lives that you’re mentoring and you’re making stuff like this?” he said. “I have no tolerance for that.”

Bethel School District Communication Director Doug Boyles told KING 5 the district is “investigating the post.”

“Dave Hollenbeck is not a teacher. This was his first year as a wrestling coach at Bethel High School,” the statement read. “As wrestling season is over, he is not working for us right now.”

Hollenbeck defended the controversial post to KOMO, though he acknowledged that it may have been insensitive.

“I’m not a racist man,” he said. “I don’t have that in me, my children don’t have that in them, I didn’t instill that in them. I’m sorry that I offended anybody, that was not my point. I was trying to show something.”

Hollenbeck said his point was the move police used to pin down Floyd isn’t typically a deadly one.

“I have a specialty in fighting on the ground, and I know that just putting your knee on the back (of the neck) to me, I would say that’s not going to lead to death,” he said. “Now did he have other underlying issues? Maybe.”

Some parents in the district are convinced Hollenbeck is racist and want him fired immediately.

“When this happened, I was completely blown,” George-Jean Edwards told KOMO. “Disbelief and really quite frankly sick to know that someone that people trust with their kids was speaking and interpreting such a horrifying situation in the manner that he did.”

Edwards doesn’t think Hollenbeck deserves to return to the mat.

“The picture and the caption attacked to the picture definitely exuded racial tendencies,” he said. “I don’t think you can come back from that.”