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A black Baltimore high school athletics director has been charged with using AI to generate a recording of the school's white principal going on a racist rant.
Dazhon Darien, 31, previously worked as the athletic director at Pikesville High School - but was the target of a probe into the mishandling of school funds.
In an act of retaliation, Darien allegedly generated a fake audio recording of the school's principal, Eric Eiswert, 'spewing racial and anti-Semitic insults about staff and students.'
The recording, posted to an Instagram account, allegedly captures Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert making racially charged comments.
'I seriously don't understand why I have to constantly put up with these dumb a**** here every day,' the speaker is heard saying.
Dazhon Darien, 31, is a Baltimore high school athletics director that has been charged with using AI to generate a recording of the school's white principal going on a racist rant
In an act of retaliation, Darien allegedly generated a fake audio recording of the school's principal, Eric Eiswert (pictured), 'spewing racial and anti-Semitic insults about staff and students.'
'Between these ungrateful black kids who can't test their way out of a paper bag or these teachers who don't get it. How hard is it to get these students to meet their grade level expectations?'
The speaker said, 'And if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I'm going to join the other side.'
Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said his department worked with the FBI and forensic experts from the University of California at Berkeley to investigate the recording - which circulated online in January 2024.
'Dazhon Darien, the school's athletic director, produced the recording to retaliate against Principal Eiswert, who had initiated a probe into the mishandling of school funds,' McCullough confirmed after the investigation.
Darien was arrested at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Thursday morning on an outstanding warrant, according to abc13.
The ex-athletics director now faces charges of stalking, disruption of school operations and retaliation against a witness. He is currently being held in custody on $5,000 bond.
Darien and Eiswert's feud began in
