I’m tempted to poll reader reaction to this but I’m not sure we’d get more than five votes critical of the guy. His daughter’s 13, she has cerebral palsy, and according to her mother she drew the bullies’ attention by … sticking up for another kid. Dad couldn’t take it and now he’s facing charges:

“At that time, I was a bully. And I apologize again for that,” said Jones. “If you see the tape, I feel like I was backed up against the wall as a parent. I just didn’t know where else to go. We definitely don’t want to promote that…

Jones was charged last week with disorderly conduct and disturbing a school function for the Sept. 3 tirade in Sanford, just north of Orlando. He later posted $2,000 bail and was ordered to stay away from the driver and county school buses.

His attorney, Deianna Brown, said she is hoping to get the charges dropped or reduced, and she’s offered to have her client give speeches against bullying as community service…

Jones told deputies that boys placed an open condom on his daughter’s head, smacked her on the back of her head, twisted her ear and shouted rude comments at her, according to the sheriff’s office report.

Two clips below, one from the bus and the other from his presser. Since we’re talking about 13-year-olds here, the bullies’ gender probably shouldn’t matter, yet it does. Seeing a large angry man get in the faces of tween girls? Creepy and inappropriate. Seeing a large angry man get in the faces of tween boys? Important life lesson. Recommended sentence: Sixty hours of community service at a juvenile detention facility, pushing bullies’ heads into the toilet.