After a video of a man harassing a Franklin teen went viral, that man is out of his job as CEO of a Franklin-based telehealth company â and the teen has seen an outpouring of support on social media.Â
In the video, a man, identified as Sam Johnson, is seen engaging in a sometimes heated conversation with 18-year-old Dalton Stevens, a Franklin High School senior who was wearing a red prom gown. Johnson is a Franklin resident and now the former CEO of VisuWell, which rebranded from WeCounsel a few years ago. He previously
The two are seen in the outdoor common area of the Harpeth Hotel along with other students who were taking photos prior to attending FHS prom on Saturday night. The person filming the encounter was 19-year-old Jacob Geitmann, who was attending the FHS prom with Stevens.
27 Apr 2021
A CEO who reportedly criticized a teenage boy in public for wearing a dress to prom has been fired from his Tennessee company.
Video recorded and shared online showed Dalton Stevens, a senior at Franklin High School, allegedly being criticized by a man identified as Sam Johnson, the former CEO of telemedicine company, VisuWell, WGN 9 reported Tuesday.
“I very much view clothes as genderless,” Stevens said, adding he and his boyfriend, Jacob Geittman, were at the Harpeth Hotel in downtown Franklin for pictures when Johnson walked up to them.
“Slander terms thrown towards me of like ‘You look bad,’ ‘You’ve got hair on your chest, you shouldn’t be wearing a dress,’ ‘You’re not a man,’ blah, blah, blah,” Stevens alleged.
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VisuWell boss Sam Johnson allegedly harassed a teen for wearing a dress to prom. (Screen captures via Twitter/@jacobgeittmann2)
The CEO of a telemedicine company was fired after he being accused of harassing a teenager for wearing a prom dress.
On Saturday night (24 April), a group of Franklin High students were gearing up for their prom at a hotel in Tennessee. One of them, 18-year-old Dalton Stevens, wanted to show that “clothing is really genderless” by wearing a dress.
As he and his boyfriend began taking pictures, he alleges, now-former VisuWell CEO Sam Johnson began berating them.
Johnson, the teen claimed, called Stevens “stupid” and hurled homophobic slurs at him for wearing the floor-length red gown.